Charged with working against the principles and policies of the BSP - the party they joined in August this year - former external affairs minister, K Natwar Singh, and his son Jagat Singh, have been expelled from the party. BSP general secretary, Satish Chandra Mishra, charged Natwar Singh with "indiscipline" and indulging in "anti-party activities" after being denied Rajya Sabha nomination.
India's two consecutive wins over England in the ODI series has shuffled the ICC's ODI rankings with the side moving up two places from fifth to third position. Moreover, Yuvraj Singh, with his back-to-back powerpacked knocks - his two centuries - has also been rewarded for his performance as he climbed to the sixth spot of the ICC player rankings for ODI batsmen, gaining as many as 11 places to enjoy the highest rating of his career to date!
Terming the 1984 anti-Sikh riots as"wrong", Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi said the perpetrators of the mindless violence should be brought to justice. Though Rahul admitted that "there was a tragedy in Punjab" - after the assassination of his grandmother and former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, who ordered Operation Bluestar - he rubbished all talk of Sikh aversion towards the Congress.
With the future at stake, letting bygones be bygones, it was a forgiving day all around in the world's clubbiest legislative body - the American Senate, when Senate Republicans unanimously re-elected their leadership and the Democrats refrained from turning cannibal on Joe Lieberman. 
A storm could already be abrewing between Paris Hilton and her boyfriend for 8-months i. e. Good Charlotte guitarist - Benji Madden. Pictures published in yesterday's British tabloid The Sun, Hilton, who described Benji as her best friend, even going so far as to say she wanted to marry the 29-year old rocker and have children with him, show her cozying up with ex-boyfriend, the very handsome (and much younger) billionaire Greek shipping heir - Stavros Niarchos III. 
The most recognizable fictional character, Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse appears for the first time on public stage in Steamboat Willie, the first synchronized sound cartoon, a seven-minute classic that made him an instant superstar. 
