Washington , March 12 - The wife of US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was in serious condition after a car accident Thursday in Virginia that also injured his daughter.

Landra Reid, 69, was in a Washington area hospital with a broken back, broken neck and broken nose, according to a statement from the senator's office. Their daughter, Lana Reid-Barringer, 48, was apparently less seriously hurt.

The two women were conscious in hospital and could "feel their extremities," the statement said. Their injuries were said to be non-liffe threatening.

Their car was hit in the rear by a large tractor trailer in

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Washington, MArch 12 - US President Barack Obama has donated the $1.4 million that came with winning the Nobel Peace Prize to charity, the White House said Thursday.

Obama divided the money up among 10 charities, with Fisher House, a non-profit that provides housing for families of patients being treated at military and veteran hospital, receiving the most at $250,000.

The Haiti relief fund set up by former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush will receive $200,000.

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Washington, March 12 - Extrajudicial killings by the Pakistani military in the ongoing fight with insurgents have further added to human rights concerns in the country, the US State Department said Thursday.

The State Department cited reports the military carried out up to 400 killings during counterinsurgency operations against the Taliban in North West Frontier Province and the Swat Valley in 2009, the year covered by the department annual human rights report.

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London, March 11 : The Oscar-winning "Shutter Island" director Martin Scorsese has been named the best living director in a new US magazine poll.

Imdb. com reports, the top 10 in the Paste magazine's top 50 list - are Joel and Ethan Coen, Steven Soderbergh, Paul Thomas Anderson, Woody Allen, Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch and Wong Kar-Wai.

Kathryn Bigelow, who became the first female to win a Best Director Oscar failed to make in the list.(IANS)

London, March 11 : Hollywood actress Renee Zellweger gifted a photographer a $100 coffee voucher after he saved her from getting a parking fine.

The "Bridget Jones's Diary" star was in the middle of ordering her drinks in Santa Monica when a paparazzo outside spotted her parking meter was about to expire. He put a few coins in the meter, saving her from being fined by a traffic warden.

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London, March 11 : "High School Musical" star Ashley Tisdale and her boyfriend appeared to be a happy-go lucky couple as they took a romantic stroll to her parents' house together.

The 24-year-old star has been dating the music video director Scott Speer for almost a year, reports okmagazine. com

Speer was seen giving Tisdale a piggyback ride for almost half a mile on the walk back to her house.

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London, March 11 : "Twilight" star Kristen Stewart was banned from "groping" Dakota Fanning during their onscreen kiss for new movie "The Runaways" because her co-star was just 15 when they shot the steamy scene.

The pair puckered up for a same-sex liplock during the film, about the 1970s rock group and featuring Stewart as Joan Jett and Fanning as her bandmate Cherie Currie, reports imdb. com.

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London, March 11 : Singer Mark Owen has apologised after admitting he cheated on his partner of five years, before they married in 2009.

The 38-year-old "Take That" star had recently admitted that he had been unfaithful and had relations with several women during his relationship with Emma Ferguson, the mother of his children.

However, he insisted he has been faithful since marrying Ferguson, reports bbc. co. uk.

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London, March 11 : Uma Thurman might not have imagined such a reaction from the audiences. Her latest movie "Motherhood," which flopped in the US, fetched only one viewer in London.

Thurman stars as a harassed Manhattan mother-of-two in the comedy directed by Katherine Dieckmann. It was screened for three days at the Apollo Piccadilly Circus in London, the only cinema to show the film, and that too a disastrous poor show, reports femalefirst. co. uk.

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London, March 11 : Pop diva Madonna has announced to launch a range of clothes.

The 51-year-old singer is creating the range, named MG Icon, in a joint venture with her manager Guy Oseary and Iconix - the company behind designer lines Badgley Mischka and Candie's, reports contactmusic. com.

"Joining forces with Iconix to bring my fashion ideas to the consumers is very exciting for me," said Madonna in a statement.

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London, March 11 : "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson is auctioning some of his movie costumes for charity.

The actor has donated his latest movie "Remember Me" outfits, including a blue Prada suit, slip-on Birkenstocks, and an off-white LNA T-shirt, for an online sale, which will raise money for the Entertainment Industry Foundation
(EIF), reports gossipblender. com.

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London, March 11 : Late Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith's life story is being made into an opera.

The troubled model, who died aged 39 in 2007 after an accidental overdose of prescription drugs, will be the focus of the production that will be shown at the Royal Opera House in London, reports telegraph. co. uk.

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Mumbai, March 11 : Bollywood director Vikram Bhatt, after two successful horror films to his credit, is out to scare again. He describes his forthcoming film "Shaapit" as a narration of how a curse works.

"The curse is such an old thing in Indian ethos and we have seen its influence even in Indian mythologies like Ramayana and Mahabharata," Vikram Bhatt told IANS after a press conference here Thursday.

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Mumbai, Mar 11: Bollywood actor Salman Khan on Thursday appeared before a special court in Mumbai as a prosecution witnesses in a 10-year-old case of one of his old movie.

Khan appeared before the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court and reiterated the statement he had given 10 years ago.

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Chicago, March 11 : Saying that "very serious crimes" with which Pakistan born terror suspect Tahawwur Hussain Rana is charged give him a motive to flee, a US court has again turned down his bail plea.

"Defendant Rana's motion to revoke Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan's detention order is denied," Judge Harry Leinenweber of US District Court, Northern District of Illinois ruled Wednesday.

Rana, a Canadian citizen living in Chicago, has been accused of helping Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in plotting terror attacks in India including the Nov 26, 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.

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London, March 11 : Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham is said to have been shocked and upset at the death of her one time boyfriend, actor Corey Haim.

The singer-turned-fashion designer briefly dated the "Lost Boys" star in 1995, and was saddened to receive news of his death Wednesday due to a suspected prescription drug overdose, reports thesun. co. uk.

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New Delhi, Mar 11: Bollywood actor Preity Zinta was on Thursday named the Indian ambassador for the joint United Nations Programme on HIV-AIDS (UNAIDS).

As an ambassador, she will raise awareness on HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, with an emphasis on women and children. Zinta is even planning to involve her Indian Premiere League cricket team, Kings XI, in the awareness programme.

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Washington, March 11 : President Barack Obama has delegated his authority to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to send mandatory certifications regarding the landmark India-US civil nuclear deal to the US Congress after every six months.

"By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby delegate to you the functions conferred upon the President by section 204(c) of the United States-India Nuclear Cooperation Approval and Nonproliferation Enhancement Act (Public Law 110-369)," he said in a Presidential Memorandum.

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London, March 11 : Hollywood actor Gerard Butler, who has been romantically linked to Jennifer Aniston, is by his own admission "paranoid" about sex and doesn't want to engage in bad behaviour, reports said.

Contactmusic. com reports that referring to golfer Tiger Woods, whose extra-marital affairs have been recently made public, the actor said: "I get laid less now than I used to, because I'm way more paranoid now. Look at f***ing Tiger Woods!

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Mumbai, March 11 : "Aamir" fame actor Rajeev Khandelwal, who was happy being attached to his girlfriend Manjari Kamtikar, is getting engaged in May to comply with his lady love's parent's wishes.

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