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Bond girl Gemma Arterton flaunts her curves in bikini

Gemma ArtertonLondon, November 3: British actress Gemma Arterton, who stars as MI6 Agent Strawberry Fields in the latest James Bond film ‘Quantum of Solace’, dared the onlookers by revealing her toned body in a bikini.

The 22-year-old, who was born with 12 fingers, was seen topping up her tan in a black bikini as she emerged from a pool in Morocco.

“She looked gorgeous, no one could take their eyes off her. It’s no surprise a body like that made it into a Bond film,” News of the World quoted a fellow holidaymaker as saying.

New anti-obesity medicine twice as effective as previous diet drugs

New anti-obesity medicine twice as effective as previous diet drugsLondon, November 3: An anti-obesity medicine called tesofensine has been found to be about twice as effective as any previous diet drug.

The drug made by NeuroSearch of Copenhagen, Denmark, was tested on some people who weight more than 100 kilograms.

A research article in the journal The Lancet suggests that those who took the drug lost almost 13 kilograms in 6 months.

The drug makes people feel full early in a meal by increasing the pleasurable effects of three neurotransmitters.

PM Gilani says no action against Musharraf if he stays out of politics

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza GilaniIslamabad, Nov 3: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has reportedly said that his government won’t take any action against the country’s former president Pervez Musharraf as long as he stayed away from politics.

Gilani described Musharraf as a relic of the past whom his government didn’t want to disturb now.

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Tens of thousands of German engineering workers to walk off jobs

Tens of thousands of German engineering workers to walk off jobsMunich - Tens of thousands of workers in Germany's engineering sector were expected to walk off their jobs Monday as their union expanded its warning strikes to press its demands for an 8-per-cent pay raise.

The strikes, which began Saturday, are to continue through Friday after the IG Metall union rejected an offer of 2.1-per-cent more income in 2009 and 0.8 per cent of annual salaries for the months of November and December

Habitable worlds may hide in Jupiter-like planets’ wake

London, Nov 3: Computer generated simulations by a scientist have indicated that habitable planets may be hidden in the wake of Jupiter-like planets as they orbit distant stars.

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