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Keira Knightley’s jinxed when it comes to props!

Washington, Sept 17: Actress Keira Knightely failed to overcome her habit of breaking important props while filming, for she recently broke two crucial items on the set of period drama ‘Atonement’.

The 22-year-old actress, who faces difficulty in keeping film props intact, broke an exclusively designed Chanel necklace and a lighter while filming ‘Atonement’.

"I was wearing a Chanel necklace and it got stuck,” Contactmusic quoted Knightely, as saying.

‘I'd love to perform on the same stage as the Spice Girls’, says JLo

Washington, Sept 17: Hispanic star, Jennifer Lopez wants to be a part of the Spice Girls’ impending world tour.

The singer/actress wants to join the band on their reunion gigs, which will begin in Los Angeles later this year in Los Angeles.

"I'd love to get back out there on tour and I'd really like to perform on the same stage as the Spice Girls,” Contactmusic quoted her, as saying.

Posh Spice Victoria Beckham and Jennifer Lopez are very good friends, and incidentally, JLo’s favourite Spice Girl is also Victoria.

Updated GOLD report underlines new recommendations to prevent COPD

Washington, Sept 17: New recommendations for the diagnosis, management and prevention of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) have been made by the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD).

The latest standards lay stress on the importance of proper diagnosis, evaluation of the disease’s severity, and better understanding of co-morbidities to improve treatment of disease.

Organ transplantation for HIV patients still a question mark, says study

Washington, Sept 16: A new report has summarised new developments in organ transplantation for patients with HIV.

Modern treatments—especially the anti-HIV drug combinations known as highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART)—have greatly decreased the risk of death from AIDS and other causes in patients with HIV.

‘I'm not adopting four blonde babies,’ says Paris Hilton

Washington, Sep 16: Socialite Paris Hilton has denied reports that she is to adopt four blonde babies.

In a recent interview, the hotel heiress revealed that at the moment, kids were not on her priority list.

"Someone just said that I'm adopting four blonde babies. That's retarded. No, I'm not,” People quoted her, as saying.

When asked if she’d like to adopt, Paris said, “Maybe, but I want to have my own children.”

Electrons conduct electricity like bouncing balls in Graphene ‘billiards table’

Washington, Sept 16: Physicists at the University of California, Riverside have found that electrons conduct electricity in Graphene the same way balls bounce back from the walls of a billiards table.

Graphene is a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms, and, structurally, is related to carbon nanotubes (tiny hollow tubes formed by rolling up sheets of graphene) and buckyballs (hollow carbon molecules that form a closed cage).

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