London, June 27 : British comedian Russell Brand says it is very difficult for him to argue with his fiancee Katy Perry as she doesn't listen to him and does whatever she likes.

"Katy does exactly what she likes. If I didn't want her to do anything like strip off, I may as well argue with a cloud," contactmusic. com quoted Brand as saying.

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New York, June 26 : Pop star Britney Spears and her ex-husband Kevin Federline came together for their sons' pre-school graduation.

Spears, who formally separated from Federline in 2007, was accompanied by her parents.

Federline arrived separately at their sons' school, but the two met up briefly.

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London, June 26 : "Harry Potter" actress Emma Watson was spotted with former model George Craig at a music festival - fuelling rumours that the two are a couple.

The two were seen at the Glastonbury music festival, reports contactmusic. com.

Watson was seen spending time with Craig, who also fronts rock band One Night Only, at the iconic music event.

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London, June 26 : Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue says she feels like her boyfriend Andres Velencoso's secretary.

The 42-year-old, who has been dating the Spanish model since October 2008, says she has to help him with English translations, reports femalefirst. co. uk.

"I have to help with his English sometimes. I have to help him with texting. I'm his secretary," said Kylie.(IANS)

Los Angeles, June 26 : A representative of singer Justin Bieber has shot down the rumours that his mother Pattie Mallette was offered $50,000 to pose topless for men's magazine Playboy.

"While nature's beauty in any form is worthy of appreciation, Justin's mom Patricia is a born again Christian. There is no truth that she would ever pose in Playboy, as it goes against her religion," said Ravi Batra, a legal representative of Justin.

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Seven major websites, together with Google and Yahoo, will be scrutinized and 17 lesser-known sites are being blocked completely for suspected blasphemous material under court orders.

The moves followed a provisional ban that Pakistan forced on Facebook in May.

According to a spokesman for the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, the sites to be monitored comprise Yahoo, Google, YouTube, Amazon and MSN, Hotmail and Bing from Microsoft.

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Cisco and Ingram Micro have instigated Asia's first Cisco Center for Unified Computing in Singapore.

Officials with Cisco said that the center would supply Ingram Micro's customers and channel partners with a next-generation data center podium that would supplementary hasten the deliverance of new services simply, dependably and with a high grade of security through end-to-end provisioning and migration support.

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Risking a holdup to International Monetary Fund assistance to one of the European Union's poorest Countries, Romania's highest court upturned a key part of a Government soberness wrap up.

The Leu, Romania's currency, fell 1% towards its lowest level since December and the country's leading equity index declined by 5%, as Government efforts to domesticate a ballooning budget deficit were thrown into qualm.

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Protesting a planned trade agreement with rival China tens of thousands of opposition supporters chanted anti-communist slogans as they marched in Taiwan's capital, which they believed would destabilize the island's self-rule and harm its economy.

‘It's a disgrace to Embrace Communist China’ and Protect Taiwan, ‘Protect Our Jobs’, as they marched several miles along a main thoroughfare in Taipei, to the Presidential office building.

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The Singapore Mint has brought the 2010 FIFA World Cup administrator remembrance coins to collectors and fans in Singapore.

On behalf of host country South Africa, the variety of gold and silver coins was designed by the South African Mint.

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The head of the national response effort declared that Gale force winds could compel at-sea workers to discard their oil collection efforts in the Gulf of Mexico for two weeks.

Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen explained the cut-and-run plan in a conference call to reporters as, ‘Realistically, out of an abundance of caution’, but, the Deepwater Horizon well would remain uncapped for ‘14 days’, if that occurred.

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China set off a worldwide wave of optimism, as it announced that it would progressively unwind the iron grasp it has kept on the worth of its currency, the renminbi, sometimes called the Yuan.

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According to data from the Economic Development Board, manufacturing output in Singapore raced to 58.6%, last month. It increased by a record level, as compared to the last year. The growth has surpassed the expectations of most of the people and also surprised the economic experts.

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A 2560-room resort was opened this week in Singapore that includes an arts museum and 4,000 seat theater. It also has specialist restaurants and this will be good news for all the people, who will visit Singapore in the coming days.

The newly opened SkyPark will also link three towers and it expected to attract a lot of people. It also offers panoramic view of the city of Singapore and Singapore Straits.

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It was stressed by Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew that the country’s banks need to consolidate their operations, if they want to expand their business outside the country.

He was giving his views at an event organized by the Association of Banks of Singapore. He said that the three biggest banks of Singapore were not able to capitalize the way big global banks have done.

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A new research study has revealed that breathing polluted air from car exhaust can lead to a stroke. But many feel that much more study is needed to confirm the results of the study.

Researchers claimed that even a temporary exposure to few pollutants can lead to "ischemic" strokes. This is the most common type of stroke, which takes place when a clot interrupts blood flow to the brain. The data for this study was collected from hospitals around Copenhagen in Denmark.

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A tiny black and white television is connected to a car battery in the team Captain’s room to watch the World Cup. At this stage of the game, teammates of Annafields Phiri still consider Brazil or Argentina, as the favorites to win.

But, outside the Zimbabwe capital, they are not the ordinary team. All are women, who are suffering from HIV/AIDS virus and for them football is more than a game, as it is their life saver.

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It has been suggested by a new study that if a child is provided with cow’s milk in the first few weeks of birth, later, it will protect him from developing an allergy to the milk's protein.

Cow's milk protein allergic reaction is the most general and dangerous among the family of dairy allergies and intolerances. The protein reaction can also lead to rashes, gastrointestinal and respiratory symptoms, even shock or death.

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Washington, June 26 : Palaeontologists have discovered tooth marks gouged in the rib bone of a large dinosaur by a mammal that lived 75 million years ago.

Researchers Nicholas Longrich of Yale University and Michael J. Ryan of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History think the tooth marks were made by an archaic order of extinct mammals resembling rodents, with each groove corresponding to a single incisor.

The pair discovered tooth marks on a femur bone from a Champsosaurus, an aquatic reptile that grew up to five feet long; the rib of a dinosaur, most likely a hadrosaurid or ceratopsid; the femur of another large dinosaur that was likely an ornithischian; and a lower jaw bone from a small marsupial.

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London, June 26 : Tiger Woods’ estranged wife Elin Nordegren is reportedly set to pocket 750 million dollars in a divorce settlement.

However, Nordegren must not reveal anything about her relationship with the golfer to get the cash.

The mother-of-two will be barred from ever signing any book deals or giving interviews about the breakdown of their five-year marriage.

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