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‘Heartbroken’ Travolta speaks out for first time about son’s death

‘Heartbroken’ Travolta speaks out for first time about son’s deathLondon, January 5 : `Heartbroken' John Travolta and wife Jelly Preston have spoken of their grief on the death of their son Jett in their first public statement.

The couple's 16-year-old son is thought to have died after hitting his head on a bathtub following a seizure in the family's holiday home, Old Bahama Bay resort, in the Bahamas.

“Big Bang Machine” to re-start in June

“Big Bang Machine” to re-start in JuneLondon, Jan 5: If reports are to be believed, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), popularly known as the "Big Bang Machine", should be fixed and re-started in June this year.

According to a report in Daily Express, work on the broken machine is being stepped up in the new year with the aim of getting the 4 billion pounds "Atom Smasher" re-started in June.

The LHC, the biggest atom-smashing machine ever built, straddles the borders of France and Switzerland and is operated by CERN, the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva.

Status Quo played most concerts in 2008

Status Quo played most concerts in 2008London, January 4 : Rock legends Status Quo has claimed the title of playing the most arena concerts in 2008.

The busy veterans beat pop band Take That to second place - by just one gig - after taking to the stage in front of 300,000 fans at 35 UK shows.

"Nothing beats playing live," the Sun quoted Quo's frontman Francis Rossi as saying.

The English indie rock band Kaiser Chiefs grabbed the third spot while BRIT Award-winning pop group Sugababes bagged the fourth position.

Brit kids as young as four being sexually assaulted by classmates

London, Jan 4 : Brit kids as young as four are being sexually bullied and even assaulted by their classmates in school, an investigation has revealed.

According to the investigation, thousands of kids have been victims and perpetrators of sexual misconduct ranging from name-calling, inappropriate touching to serious sexual attacks.

The study is part of BBC One''s Panorama, which explores the sexualisation of childhood and how gang culture, music, the Internet and TV are affecting how young people view the world.

Groping and the use of sexually abusive nicknames have become almost part of daily life for some pupils, according to the programme.

In most cases, offenders are not expelled.

Couple gets MBE award for fostering 117 kids over 32 years

London, Jan 4 : A couple from Hexton, Hertfordshire, has been fostering 117 children over the last three decades.

Their extraordinary efforts of foster carers Robert and Caroline Rejdak were recognised last week with the awarding of an MBE in the New Year Honours list and now their remarkable story has been told for the first time.

Since the late 1970s the pair have nurtured newborns and tearaway teenagers, reunited absent parents with their offspring and even become grandparents through an adopted son and daughter.

Mrs Rejdak, 58, said she and her husband applied to become foster parents in 1976, inspired by their experiences of looking after the disabled son of another couple who were close friends.

UK cops plan crackdown on shops accused of glamorising hookahs

London, January 4 : Brit police have drawn plans to find a way to deal with law-abiding retailers who showcase drug-related products such as hookahs, after suspecting them of glamorising the banned substances.

According to the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), the businesses, while following the law, tend to advertise "legal alternatives" to cannabis on their windows.

The "head shops" further offered to sell merchandise bearing images of cannabis leaves or marijuana cigarettes, depicting "drug use in a positive light," reports the Telegraph.

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