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Only Crouch can touch and dance close with Abbey Clancy

Only Crouch can touch and dance close with Abbey ClancyLondon, Nov 6 : English model Abbey Clancy has said that she’d love to participate in the reality show ‘Strictly Come Dancing’, but deems her footballer boyfriend Peter Crouch would get jealous of the raunchy dance routines.

Clancy, who has taken part in many reality TV shows, would love to win ‘Strictly Come Dancing’.

But her footballer boyfriend Peter is too protective about her to let her dance with other men.

Internet black boxes to record every email and website visit by computer users

Internet black boxes to record every email and website visit by computer usersLondon, Nov 6: Soon, Internet “black boxes” could be used to record every email and website visit made by computer users in Britain.

According to a report in the Telegraph, under the British Government’s plans to monitor Internet traffic, raw data would be collected and stored by the black boxes before being transferred to a giant central database.

The vision was outlined at a meeting between officials from the Home Office and Internet Service Providers in London.

Asia-Pacific stocks take another plunge on Wall Street's cue

Tokyo - Asian stocks took a big dive Thursday, reacting to a sharp fall overnight on Wall Street and wiping away gains from earlier in the week.

Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average plunged 6.53 per cent to 8,899.14 while the broader Topix index of all first-section issues also lost 5.96 per cent to close at 909.3.

The plunge came on the heels of a Wall Street decline brought on by a report showing rapidly rising job losses.

The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 5.05 per cent to 9,139.27. The broader Standard and Poor's 500 Index was down 5.27 per cent to 952.77, and the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index fell 5.53 per cent to 1,681.64.

Three killed, 15 wounded in spate of violence in Baghdad

Three killed, 15 wounded in spate of violence in Baghdad Baghdad - Four explosions in central and eastern Baghdad killed three people on Thursday and wounded another 15, police reported, according to the Voices of Iraq (VOI) agency.

A detonation killed a civilian and injured another four near Imam Abdul Qader al-Kilani shrine in central Baghdad, police told the agency.

Also in central Baghdad two bombs going off consecutively killed a a civilian and a tribal police member. The blasts also wounded five people, including three tribal police members.

Tibetan exiles in Dharamsala pin their ''freedom hopes'' on Obama

Dharamshala, Nov 6: The Tibetan exiles in Dharamsala, the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile, are hoping that Barack Obama the US President-elect would help them restore human rights in Tibet.

The exiles hope that Obama will extend full support to the people of Tibet in their fight for freedom from the alleged Chinese suppression.

Frustrated with the lack of progress with China despite rounds of talks and the March crackdown on riots against Chinese rule in Tibet, many exiles wish that Obama would make the much-needed difference.

Hong Kong shares plunge 7 per cent in US election hangover

Hong Kong shares plunge 7 per cent in US election hangoverHong Kong - Hong Kong shares plunged more than 7 per cent Thursday as delight over the US presidential election result turned to gloom over signs of a deepening global recession.

The blue-chip Hang Seng Index lost 1,050.12 points, or 7.08 per cent, to close at 13,790.04. Turnover was 48.25 billion Hong Kong dollars (6.22 billion US dollars).

The losses came 24 hours after the index surged by more than 3 per cent Wednesday afternoon on news of Barack Obama's win.

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