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Lindsay Lohan says she has learnt her lesson

Melbourne, Nov 5: After making headlines for her wild partying ways and unfortunate encounters with law, Lindsay Lohan has said that she has learnt her lesson.

The ‘Mean Girls’ actress claimed that her days of notorious partying, run-ins with the law and drug problems are far behind, as she now prefers to stay at home.

OKmagazine. com reported Lohan saying that she love spending her nights at home watching TV and hanging out with her gal pal Samantha Ronson.

"I watch a lot of TV. More than I've ever watched because I don’t go out every night," News. com. au quoted her as saying in an interview with US TV show Extra in an interview.

Video games don't boost brainpower, claims study

London, Nov 5 : A new study challenges claims made by previous researches that video games help boost memory power and multitasking ability.

The research team led by researchers from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign showed that playing video games doesn’t improve cognitive skills.

They found no improvement in memory skills or the ability to multitask after kids spent more than 20 hours on one of three video games.

The researchers claim that while a few hours playing an action game could improve concentration, but its not enough for other cognitive skills.

Hugh Hefner’s ex No1 girlfriend says she ‘hasn’t had sex for a long time’

New York, Nov 5: Hugh Hefner’s former No1 girlfriend Holly Madison has taken a ‘jibe’ at the Playboy mogul, saying that she hasn’t had sex in a long time.

In an interview with In Touch magazine, Madison made a not-so-subtle attack at the octogenarian tycoon.

"I haven''t had sex in a really long time. And that''s the honest truth," she said.

Madison is quite excited about dating new men, the only condition being— they shouldn’t be like her ex-beau— ‘high maintenance’.

"It might be refreshing to date someone who is not high maintenance," The New York Daily News quoted Holly Madison as telling in an interview to Extra.

All Govt Schools To Have Internet Connection By 2012: Raja

All Govt Schools To Have Internet Connection By 2012: RajaUnion IT and Communications Minister, A. Raja announced that under the rural broadband project by 2012, all Gram Panchayats, Government High Secondary Schools and Public Health Centres will be provided broadband connectivity.

Speaking at the National Round Table Conference on ‘Telecom Sector in Education Development’, the minister said that funds from USO are being extensively deployed to increase broadband connectivity at each block and village level.

US media see Obama’s landslide win best chance to improve America’s image

US media see Obama’s landslide win best chance to improve America’s imageNew York, Nov 5 : The US media have pinned hopes from the new President Barack Obama, saying he won the poll simply because he was the better of the two candidates, which was proved by his life full of struggle and perseverance.

The papers talked about issues which the present incumbent George Bush couldn’t resolve or neglected altogether.

Winnie-the-Pooh’s ‘dip into honey’ sketch fetches £31,200 at auction

London, Nov 5 : An original drawing of favourite AA Milne character Winnie the Pooh, featuring Tigger and Piglet, has fetched 31,200 pounds at an auction.

The oval pencil sketch by E. H. Shepard, one of children''s literature''s most famous illustrators, shows Pooh dipping his paw into a pot of honey while sitting at a table as Piglet and Tigger look on, reports Times Online.

Auctioneer Bonhams said the successful telephone bidder was from Germany and bought the picture for his wife, a long-time Pooh fan.

Another work by Shepard, a first sketch for The Wind in the Willows, sold for 7,440pounds.

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