Disney to buy Marvel in $4bn deal | read this item
Entertainment giant Walt Disney is to buy Marvel Entertainment in a shares and cash deal valued at $4bn (£2.5bn).
The deal means Disney will take over ownership of 5,000 Marvel characters, such as Spider-Man and the X-Men.
Marvel shareholders will get $30 per share in cash plus 0.745 Disney shares for every Marvel share owned.
The boards of [...]
Daily aspirin could do more harm than good: heart study | read this item
LONDON : Healthy people taking a daily dose of aspirin to prevent heart attacks may be doing themselves more harm than good, according to a new study by British scientists.
Researchers found that the risks of bleeding from taking aspirin were such that its routine use in healthy people “cannot be supported” — although they did not [...]
In an anguished 911 call, a Georgia man told dispatchers he arrived home to find “my whole family’s dead.”
“I just got home,” a man identified as Guy Heinze Jr. told the emergency dispatcher in the Saturday call, released Monday by authorities. “I was out last night. I got home just now, and everybody’s dead. … [...]
Meera’s marriage revealed 'Video' | read this item
LAHORE : The marriage of film star Meera was revealed on Sunday after a dispute arose over Meera’s mother shifting antique furniture belonging to the film star’s ‘husband’ Attiqur Rehman.
Defence-A Police Station House Officer (SHO) Inspector Abid Rasheed told Daily Times that he had seen the nikahnama (marriage certificate), according to which the nikah was solemnised [...]
MUMBAI : It’s official! Bollywood’s young heartthrob Imran Khan is engaged to his sweetheart and longtime girlfriend, Avantika Malik. And although the actor is keen on making the formal announcement only in January, the industry has already raised a toast to the couple.
“Yes it’s true. But we’re planning to have a proper ceremony later, so right [...]
I can’t see Kat in a mini: Salman | read this item
Salman Khan recently appeared on a show with mom Salma, where she spilled the beans on the actor’s personal life.
Asked if his mother knows all his secrets, even about his girlfriends, SALMAN confesses, “She knows everything, even before I know, she knows.”
Is it true, as his dad remarked on the same show, that he looks [...]
Australia is safe, welcoming, deputy PM tells Indians | read this item
NEW DELHI: Australian Deputy Premier Julia Gillard began a visit to New Delhi on Monday seeking to repair damage done to Australia’s image after
a string of attacks on Indians in Sydney and Melbourne.
Gillard, the most senior Australian minister to visit since the attacks began earlier this year, listed steps taken by Canberra to make Indian [...]
US shuttle Discovery docks with space station | read this item
WASHINGTON : The US shuttle Discovery made a textbook docking late Sunday with the International Space Station where a total of 13 astronauts begin nine days together improving and supplying the orbiting outpost.
US space agency Nasa confirmed the docking procedure, which allows the seven-member Discovery crew to open a hatch and climb into the ISS to [...]
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