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Havoc-wreaking Winehouse calms down with pricey beauty treatments

Havoc-wreaking Winehouse calms down with pricey beauty treatmentsLondon, February 9: Amy Winehouse has mended her havoc-wreaking ways, and is relying upon pricey beauty treatments to reverse damage caused by her drug addiction, as per the manager of a posh Caribbean resort.

The `rehab' hit maker, who has been soaking up the sun in Le Sport spa hotel in St. Lucia since December, had vowed to make a fresh start in 2009, including getting rid off her drug and alcohol addiction.

Tell-all documentary claims Princess Margaret did romance 60s gangster

Tell-all documentary claims Princess Margaret did romance 60s gangsterLondon, Feb 9: A new documentary claims that Princess Margaret, the party-loving sister of the Queen, did have an affair with gangster John Bindon.

Titled ''The Princess And The Gangster'', the film gives out fiery details of the relationship between the royal, who at one time was second in line to the throne, and one of London''s most violent criminals, who also appeared in several "landmark" gangster movies of the late Sixties and Seventies.

Brits call Grand Canyon greatest of world’s seven natural wonders

Brits call Grand Canyon greatest of world’s seven natural wondersLondon, Feb 9 : The awe-inspiring Grand Canyon has been voted as the greatest of the seven natural wonders of the world in a new poll of British public.

In the poll involving 4,000 Britons, the canyon carved by the Colorado river over six million years beat off competition from waterfalls, mountains and rainforests to take the top spot.

The Great Barrier Reef in eastern Australia came in second.

Neanderthals may have invented music

London, Feb 9 : Jazz composer Simon Thorne has tried to recreate the kind of music which he thinks the Neanderthals might have played when they were still around, and has also suggested that they might have invented the beginnings of music.

Neanderthal man existed side by side with early homo sapiens before becoming extinct some 30,000 years ago.

Despite having a reputation for lacking intelligence, recent research suggests the Neanderthals were a lot more resourceful and innovative than was first thought.

"Given that Neanderthal man's brain was about the same size as ours, and much of our brain is given over to language, then you can assume they probably had language too," Thorne told BBC News.

Iraqi journo who threw shoes at Bush faces trial

Iraqi journo who threw shoes at Bush faces trialLondon, February 9 : Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi, 30, who threw his shoes at former U. S. President George W. Bush, faces trial next week for assaulting a foreign leader.

Court spokesman Abdul-Sattar Bayrkdar has revealed that an appellate court has refused to reduce the charge levelled against al-Zeidi, who has been in custody since the December 14 outburst at Bush''s joint news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

Cancer-stricken Jade Goody tries to heal rift between mum and beau

Cancer-stricken Jade Goody tries to heal rift between mum and beauLondon, Feb 09 : Only hours after having a life-saving surgery, cancer-stricken Jade Goody had to act as peacemaker when her mother and her beau got into a bust-up.

The row began when Jackiey Budden, 50, found no one was at her daughter's bedside on Friday (Feb 6) when she came round.

She blamed Goody's boyfriend Jack Tweed, 21 - screaming at him in earshot of shocked hospital staff.

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