New York, Feb 6 : Rapper 50 Cent has won a lawsuit against his ex Shaniqua Tompkins, after a Manhattan judge gave his verdict against her. Shaniqua claimed 50 Cent''s millions, as she is the mother of his child.

However, according to the verdict, she will not even get a single penny.

50 Cent was more than glad when Supreme Court Justice Carol Edmead refuted the suit, ruling that none of Tompkins'' allegations had merit.

Washington, Feb 6 : Large organisations can now save up to 13,000 pounds in electricity costs each month, all thanks to PowerDown, a computer programme that automatically shuts down systems after usage.

Systems experts at University of Liverpool embarked upon the idea of developing the software after realising that universities with PC centres in 24-hour libraries could be losing more than one million hours of unused computer power each month.

They found that 1,600 library-based PC''s alone were using 20,000 kW each week unnecessarily, which make up for approximately 2,400 pounds in current electricity prices.

And, to date, PowerDown has recovered 24 million hours of PC inactivity within the University.

Washington, Feb 6 : American rapper Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., a. k. a. Lil Wayne has revealed that he is a fan of marijuana and that he still uses the illegal drug for medicinal purposes.

Wayne, who has been arrested twice in the past three years on drug possession charges, with the most recent arrest being in January 2008, let out during a pre-Grammy Awards TV special that he uses the drug for his migraines.

As per his saying, he still smokes marijuana to help combat migraines "that make me wanna just kill myself."

New York, Feb 6 : American actor Tom Cruise got his geography mixed up when he greeted reporters in Portuguese speaking Rio de Janeiro, by speaking to them in Spanish.

Cruise was in the Brazilian city to promote his movie `Valkyrie', and he tried to get friendly with the reporters by saying hola (hello) and gracias (thanks) to them, reports the New York Post.

Washington , Feb. 6 : Former Vice President Dick Cheney's warnings about the risks of closing Guantanamo Bay prison and changing other Bush-era policies, has angered Democrats and some top counter-terrorism experts, who said Cheney was reviving the same scare tactics voters had rejected in electing Barack Obama.

Cheney made his comments in an interview this week with Politico in which he unyieldingly defended the detention facility and coercive interrogations of terrorism suspects
- and warned that changing course would invite another mass-casualty terror attack potentially worse than the ones on Sept. 11.

Washington, Feb 6 : Hollywood actress Drew Barrymore couldn't eat or drink popularly for two weeks after getting her tongue pierced.

Although getting a bling was quite easy and pain free for the Charlie's Angels star, but her real agony kicked in hours later.

"They do it and you''re like, ''Oh my God, why would I ever think twice about not doing this; this didn''t hurt at all,''" Contactmusic quoted her as saying.