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Bridget Marquardt hints at leaving Playboy Mansion

New York, Nov 3 : American glamour model Bridget Marquardt, known as one of Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends, has hinted that she will be leaving the Playboy Mansion.

Marquardt, 35, who is the last of the Playboy founder''s girlfriends to survive last month''s Mansion shake-up, did not give a specific time as to when she will be leaving.

“I don''t know how much longer I''ll be there,” the New York Daily News quoted her as telling Us Weekly magazine.

She further revealed that her co-stars from the “Girls Next Door” show, and recent Hefner exes Holly Madison and Kendra Wilkinson, were “moving out right now.”

“Johnny Carson was a great star but the saddest guy”: Henry Bushkin

New York, Nov 3 : Late American television host Johnny Carson’s longtime lawyer, Henry Bushkin, has revealed that the comedian’s life was full of misery.

Bushkin revealed that the “Tonight Show” host was a sad, depressed man who cheated on his wives, was tormented by his mom, and who refused to visit his son in a mental hospital.

“He was a great star, but not a great man,” the New York Post quoted Bushkin, who had jokingly been dubbed as “Bombastic Bushkin” by Carson, as saying.

“Many great comedians were miserable human beings . . . Johnny suffered a great many demons brought about by what I call a toxic sort of mother.

Four militants killed as head of US Central Command visits Pakistan

PakistanIslamabad - Four Islamic militants were killed by Pakistani troops Monday as the new commander of US forces in the Middle East and Central Asia, General David Petraeus, held talks with the Pakistani leadership, officials said.

Gunmen in North-West Frontier Province also abducted an Afghan national believed to be a United Nations employee.

The militants were killed when security forces started pounding insurgent positions Sunday night in the Mamoond and Chahrmang areas of the Bajaur tribal district bordering Afghanistan with artillery fire and the operation continued until Monday morning.

Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker to star in new romantic comedy

Sarah Jessica ParkerWashington, Nov 3 : A new romantic comedy may co-star Sarah Jessica Parker an

Spain considered war against Portugal in 1975, daily says

Madrid - A Spanish prime minister considered declaring a war against neighbouring Portugal to stem the spread of communism in the final year of General Francisco Franco's 36-year dictatorship, the daily El Pais reported Monday.

Carlos Arias Navarro, Franco's last prime minister, met with US deputy secretary of state Robert Ingersoll in Jerusalem in 1975, the daily quoted US national archives as revealing.

Arias Navarro expressed concern over the establishment of a leftist government in Portugal following the 1974 Carnation Revolution, which toppled prime minister Marcelo Caetano's authoritarian government.

Report: Moamer Gaddafi paid ransom to free Austrian hostages

Libyan strongman Moamer GaddafiAlgiers/Paris - Libyan strongman Moamer Gaddafi paid a ransom to free two Austrians kidnapped by Islamic militants in Tunisia, the Algerian daily Liberte reported on Monday.

According to the report, Gaddafi paid between 3 million and 5 million euros (3.85 million - 6.41 million dollars) to members of the terrorist group al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, who were holding the hostages, Wolfgang Ebner and Andrea Kloibner, in northern Mali.

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