London, Jan 10 : Rock band `The Killers' were on the verge of causing a road accident after they broke a drive-thru car wash in Canada and fled from the scene.
It was in the early days of their career that the rockers' van got jammed in a cleaning device at a Canadian garage while touring.
To avoid paying the bill for the broken machine the group sped away, right into oncoming traffic.
London, Jan 10: The world's most expensive and high-tech sewing machine with an in-built video camera is set to hit the British market.
After taking the consumers by storm in America, Brother, the technology company, is set to launch the 9,000 dollars Quattro machine in British market.
The high-tech sewing machine has a tiny camera just above the needle and zooms in while sewing. It then displays the live picture on a screen on the main body of the machine.
London, Jan 10: Patrick Swayze has checked himself into a hospital days after making a TV show on his fight with deadly pancreatic cancer, it has been revealed.
The `Dirty Dancing' star reportedly has pneumonia - a result of chemotherapy attacking his immune system.
He had been due to promote his new TV series The Beast but insisted the press event go-ahead without him while he was treated in Los Angeles, reports the Sun.
London - Britain's opposition Conservative Party Friday expelled a young activist who had caused controversy by dressing up as missing toddler Madeleine McCann at a New Year's Eve fancy dress party.
The expulsion was confirmed after Matthew Lewis apologized to the parents of Madeleine.
"I completely regret my behaviour that night and since, and cannot express how sorry I am for the incredible hurt I have caused," Lewis said.
London - Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez slammed Sir Alex Ferguson on Friday, accusing the Manchester United manager of being the only one who can criticise referees without punishment.
The Spaniard, whose side sit three points clear at the top of the table, said Ferguson was wrong to criticise the fixture list, which, he said, actually favoured United in the second half of the season.
London, Jan 9 : Legendary spinner Shane Warne has said that he is not interested in coaching England at present because he has given up following a team around the world.
He claims that the offer from Kevin Pietersen to replace Peter Moores as England head coach was `not taken seriously' by him.
Writing in The Times today, Warne reveals that he did receive a tongue-in-cheek approach from Pietersen via text message, but turned it down.
Warne, who would require a salary way beyond the 250,000 pounds earned by Moores, distanced himself from the England job.