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London, Sept 18: Brad Pitt admits that he was left a bit shaken after an obsessed fan got a little too close for comfort at the Venice Film Festival recently.

Pitt, who won the Best Actor award at the festival for his role in ‘The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford’, revealed to the Mirror that the incident had shown him just how vulnerable stars can be.

"I haven't been jumped like that in a while. It tells me that we're vulnerable," the paper quoted him, as saying.

Mumbai: The owner of the Taj Hotels chain, Indian Hotel Company (IHCL) has purchased a 10 per cent stake in the NYSE-listed Orient-Express Hotels for around Rs 850 crore.

Washington, Sept 18: He may have failed as a rapper, but Britney Spears’ ex hubby Kevin Federline’s skills as an actor certainly seem to be better, for he has just been signed on as a regular on the TV drama series ‘One Tree Hill’.

K-Fed, as he is popularly know, guest-stars in two episodes of the hit CW show as a self-obsessed wannabe rock star, and has impressed the cast and crew with his acting to such an extent that bosses have decided to have him on again.

London, Sept 18: Particles found in smoke plumes produced by cargo ships has a surprising cooling effect on the Earth's atmosphere, a new study by a team of German researchers from the University of Bremen, has revealed.

Shipping fuel is less refined than aeroplane fuel and contains more sulphur. As a result, tiny particles of sulphur dioxide contained in ship exhaust fumes create cloud tracks – similar to plane contrails – in the sky above a travelling vessel.

Washington, Sept 18: Angelina Jolie once took LSD, one of the most potent drugs, just before she took a trip to Disneyland.

The ‘Lara Croft’ star certainly felt the drug’s effects, for once at the theme park, she started imagining that Mickey Mouse was a ‘short, middle-aged man in a costume who hates life’.

"I remember taking LSD before I went to Disneyland. I started thinking about Mickey Mouse being a short, middle-aged man in a costume who hates life," Contactmusic quoted her, as saying.

Washington, Sept 18: A new study has revealed that abstinence-plus programs (to use condoms) are better than abstinence-only programs when it comes to reducing HIV risk among teenagers.