Washington, Nov 1: ‘Full House’ star Ashley Olsen has pledged to keep her kids miles away from pursuing a career in Hollywood, insisting that the industry has turned "ugly".

Along with twin sister Mary-Kate, the 22-year-old began filming their first starring roles in U. S. TV series Full House at nine-months-old before launching a media empire with their company Dualstar in 1993.

However, Ashley is convinced her own children would have a less pleasant experience growing up in the limelight than her own, reports Contactmusic.

London, Nov 1: Holly Madison, it seems, didn’t took much time to get over Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner, for the busty blonde has reportedly fallen under the spell of ‘mindfreak’ Criss Angel.

London, November 1: ‘Take That’ has made a record sell-out with its 600,000 tour tickets vanishing in just four-and-a-half hours.

Becoming the fastest selling tour in UK history, the band’s 2009 stadium tour, ‘The Circus’, has managed to displace Michael Jackson’s record sales of ‘Bad tour’ tickets in 1987, reports the Daily Star.

The tour tickets, which were put on sale at 9 am, were all sold by 1.30 pm – despite the added announcement of two extra shows at Wembley and Manchester.

While many fans queued themselves in the cold to make sure they would see their favourite group perform, others crashed the Internet sites by flooding the cyberspace in want of the passes.

Tehran, Nov 1: External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee will attend the India-Iran Joint Commission meeting today with Shamsuddin Hoseyni, Iran's Minister of Economy and Finance to discuss various initiatives to enhance their ties, including the India-Pakistan-Iran pipeline project.

The two sides are expected to discuss a way forward in the proposed 7.4 billion dollar Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline which has not yet taken off due to differences over pricing and concerns over security.

London, Nov 1: An alarming report has revealed that the sound of chirping birds might soon be lost for ever among sounds in the countryside, as the populations of farmland birds have plummeted to their lowest levels for over 40 years in the UK.

According to a report in the Daily Express, breeding pairs of countryside birds are 52 per cent fewer than in 1966.

Between 1970 and 2006, the number of corn buntings declined by 89 per cent and turtle doves by 86 per cent.

The crisis, which particularly affects species such as skylarks, grey partridges and lapwings, is likely to get worse, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds warned.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said diabetes doubled in the last decade, and obesity is the reason for the increase.

Affecting more than 23 million Americans, diabetes is the seventh-leading cause of death in the US, with more than a million and a half new cases diagnosed just last year. The highest rates were seen in the South with West Virginia being the worst hit where 13 in a 1000 adults were diagnosed with the disease in the years 2005-07.  Minnesota was the best off with 5 in a 1000 with the disease.