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Lindsay Lohan’s career may be ‘over’ following ‘Ugly Betty’ bomb

New York, Oct 25 : Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan’s career is said to be on the verge of dying after the ‘Ugly Betty’ bomb hit it.

It is being predicted that after the reduction of Lohan’s role to mere four episodes, following an alleged feud between her and lead actress America Ferrera, her career is almost in the burial.

"It''s over for Lindsay, she''s got no film work, and after this [''Ugly Betty'' news], she''s not going to land TV jobs,” the New York Daily News quoted an insider telling MSNBC

“I hear she''s even tried to get on ‘Dancing With the Stars'' and can''t," the insider added.

Japanese woman arrested for murdering virtual husband

Tokyo - A Japanese woman was arrested for cold-blooded murder of her husband - in cyberspace.

According to a report by the Yomiuri Shinbum newspaper on Saturday, the 43-year-old from Miyazaki prefecture in southern Japan, was outraged that her virtual husband divorced her character in the online game Maple Story.

Gamers in the virtual role-play enter social relationships with other characters and fight against virtual enemies. The woman married her game partner, but the man, a company employee from Sapparo in northern Japan divorced her again subsequently.

Police said the woman, identified as Mayumi Tomari, illicitly obtained the man's password and ID and terminated his online existence.

Sarah Palin’s popularity plummeting by the day

Sarah Palin’s popularity plummeting by the dayWashington, Oct 25 : Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s popularity is depleting by the day, even as less than two weeks are left for the Nov 4 elections. According to Washington Post, public perception about Palin was falling because people believe that she lacks experience to handle the second-highest post.

The First Couple Casts Early Vote for McCain

According to White House spokeswoman, Dana Perino, the reigning first couple of the country, President Bush and Mrs. Bush, cast their ballots Friday for the 2008 election, using Texas’ early voting process. In the three elections, Bush voted in Crawford, Texas, where he owns a 1,600 acre ranch.

Saying that the President and his wife, Laura, would be at the White House for election night, Perino said the ballots will be mailed back to Texas.

The reporters, of course, are leaving no stone unturned to know which of the two presidential candidates – Republican McCain and Democratic Obama – got the present President’s vote.

NY governor’s secretary quits due to tax flap

According to administration sources, secretary of Governor David Paterson, Charles O’Byrne, has resigned on Friday, after a week of increasing criticism over his failure to pay income taxes for 2001-05 – an amount of $300,000 - on time, and not offering a tangible reason for the lapse.

A source told Newsday that O’Byrne has had to leave his $178,500 job primarily “because of the taxes.” O’Byrne blamed his tax delinquency on clinical depression, for which he has undergone treatment three times.

New personality test can tell whether you are fit to be US President

London, October 25 : In the run up to the presidential election in the United States, a research team has come up with a personality test that can help find out whether an individual is fit for the Oval Office.

The new approach tests five big factors of personality—namely neuroticism, extroversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness—as well as their sub-factors.

So far, it has been used to make psychological assessments of all 41 US presidents prior to George W. Bush, and to rank them eight different types, from "dominators" to "actors".

More recently, the same tool was used to profile John McCain, Rudolf Guiliani, and Hillary Clinton. Unfortunately, the analysis did not include Barack Obama.

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