Nepal Launced their 1st Literary Festival

Napal launced yesterday their 1st international literary festival which will held on September. The festival organiser said that it will shine a global spotlight on writing from the Himalayan nation.

The three-day Kathmandu Literary Jatra (festival) will be staged in historic Patan Durbar Square, a UNESCO World Heritage Site near the capital Kathmandu, from September 16-18.

The Kathmandu Literary Jatra was inspired by India's Jaipur Literary Festival, Asia's largest writers' event, held each January in India's "pink city" of Jaipur in the northwestern state of Rajasthan.

The Kathmandu festival is being supported by the co-founder of the Jaipur festival, Namita Gokhale, a prominent Indian author who will serve as an adviser.

"India is becoming a publishing hotspot. Living next door, we thought it's a good time for Nepali literature to come out and showcase its talents," festival director Suvani Singh said.

The festival, expected to be attended by up to 10,000 people, will feature interactive sessions on such topics as "South Asia's identity portrayed in literature", "language divide" and conversations with authors.

Among those on the guest list are British writer Patrick French, who wrote "India: A Portrait", Mohammed Hanif, Pakistani author of "A Case of Exploding Mangoes" and Tarun J. Tejpal, editor of investigative Indian news weekly Tehelka.

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Train derailment in Poland kills 1, 40 injures

A train with packed passengers derailed in Poland Yesterday as it was traveling from Warsaw to Katowice. 1 died and 40 were injured.

According to Police Spokesman Ewa Drozdz the train derailed happened in village of Baby, near the central city of Piotrkow Trybunalski, with the engine and three of the train's carriages going off the tracks.

A passenger, Marcin Chlebowski, told TVN24 television that the train started to slow suddenly and that he then felt a jolt.It wasn't clear what caused the accident.

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2 dead in Beirut blast

An explosion Yesterday in Antelias, killed two people, it was a predominately Christian suburb in Beirut according to the head of public affairs for the Lebanese internal security forces.

The explosive device was placed outside a car in a public parking lot.

The car belonged to a judge's son but was unoccupied at the time of the blast, according to preliminary reports from the Lebanese Army.

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Lead Singer of Warrant Jani Lane dies at 47

Former Warrant lead singer Jani Lane dies at 47 in Los Angeles Yesterday.
Officer Sara Faden says Lane's body was found Thursday in a Woodland Hills hotel. She had no immediate information on the cause or circumstances of his death.

With his long blond hair and tight leather outfits, Lane embodied the excess of 1980s "hair metal" rock bands. He joined Warrant in 1984 and wrote such hits as "Heaven," "Down Boys" and "Cherry Pie."

He had an on-and-off relationship with the band, leaving it in 1992 before returning and quitting again several times.

In recent years, he appeared in VH1's "Celebrity Fit Club" and made news for a drunken driving arrest.


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Ricki Lake, Engaged!

A 42-year old talk show host announced on "twitter" about her set wedding to Christian Evans.

Ricki was so happy, after her divorce with artist Rob Sussman she was finally getting married again.

She wrote: 'Thrilled to share some happy news with you..... I'm engaged! :) The cat is out of the bag. Phew! I'm terrible at keeping secrets. :)(sic)'

Lake - who has sons, Milo, 14, and Owen, 10, from her previous marriage - recently joked Christian was 'a nobody' but continued to be special to her.

'He's a nobody, but he's somebody to me. He's everything to me. I'm totally in love. I'm happier than I've ever been.' Ricki stated.


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London Riot's: 1,051 Arrested

More than 1,051 people in London have been arrested by the authorities as bratain's deadly riots continues,591 of them were already charged.

Courts in London, Birmingham and Manchester stayed open through a second night and into Friday to deal with alleged offenders.

Hundreds of stores were looted, buildings were set ablaze and several people died amid the mayhem that broke out Saturday in London and spread over four nights across England.

Victims include three men in Birmingham run down by a car as they defended their neighborhood.Police are questioning the suspects on suspicion of murder.

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bomb explosion in Pakistan kills 7,3 wounded

A teenage female bomber blew herself up at a police checkpoint in Northwest Pakistan City of Peshawar,Thursday.

The back-to back explosions killed seven people in addition to the suspect.

According to Police official Shafqant Malak the suspect first tossed a grenade at a police checkpoint then detonated her vest.

police said the causalities in the second blast were low because the attackers' suicide vest may have malfunctioned,setting only a portion of her explosives.

Investigators say early indications are the suicide bomber was trying to get to the scene of the initial blast but was stopped at the checkpoint.

During the past few years, northwest Pakistan has been repeatedly hit by bombings but suicide attacks carried out by women are rare.

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U.S. Drone Strike kills 20 militants

American-fired missiles killed 20 Islamist militants in northwest Pakistan last Wednesday.

According to Pakistani officials most of the members came from a powerful insurgent network fighting the U.S presence in Afghanistan.

14 of the dead were Afghan militants belonging to Haqqani network and six Pakistani militants supporting the group.

The officials said two missiles slammed into a house close to the town of Miran Snah in North Waziristan a militant hotspot that lies just across the border from Afghanistan.

Locals and rights groups say civilians are regularly killed in the drone strikes. There are never public investigations into those claims.

Washington began the missile program that targets al-Qaida and the Taliban on the Pakistani side of the border in 2005, but stepped up the pace in 2008 and again when the Obama administration came into office.

Over the last six months, ties between the two nations have grown increasingly strained, complicating U.S. goals for withdrawing from Afghanistan.



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Vigilante Groups turn on London Rioters

Top officials warned their city’s citizens against administering vigilante justice in the midst of widespread riots in London Last Monday.

“We don’t want to see vigilantism” London Mayor Boris Johson said in a press conference today.
“People defending their homes and shops only use reasonable forces” Johson added.

According to Metropolitan Police Deputy Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stephen Kavanagh “vigilantism” could lead to further violence.

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Grease actress Annette Charles dies at 63

Annette Charles, known as Cha Cha DiGregorio in “Grease” died at age of 63 in succumbed cancer last Wednesday.

According to Tom LaBonge a Los Angeles councilman and a long time friend of Charles, she was died after a long battle with cancer.

Annette had recently started having difficulty breathing, a family member told the press and when she went to the doctor she learned that she had a cancerous tumor in one of her lungs. Apparently doctor’s caught the disease too late to prevent it from spreading”

Her show-stopping dance sequence with Danny Zuko (a.k.a. John Travolta) was one of the highlights of the 1978 film.

She was also appeared on many television shows during the 1970s and early 1980s, including "Barnaby Jones," ''The Bionic Woman," ''Magnum, P.I.," ''Bonanza," ''The Mod Squad," ''Gunsmoke" and "The Flying Nun."

Later she became a speech professor under her birth name, Annette Cardona, at California State University, Northridge.

“You and your insane dancing shoes will be missed, Annette. Let’s hoping she’s tearin’ it up at the big malt shop in the sky” a family member added.



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ABC apologizes for Nicki Minaj’s Costume

ABC apologized to its viewers for Nicki Minaj’s wardrobe slip up that exposed the singer's bare breast during her summer concert performance on morning news show "Good Morning America" last Friday.

The 28-year-old rapper and R&B singer's crop top slipped down while she was rocking the stage at Central Park's Rumsey Playfield during the live broadcast.

The costuming snafu brought immediate complaints from some viewers and prompted ABC to apologize and remove the images from later, time-delayed broadcasts of GMA.

"Although we had a five-second delay in place for the Nicki Minaj concert on GMA, the live East Coast feed of the concert regrettably included certain fleeting images of the performer that were taken out of later feeds of the broadcast in other time zones. We are sorry that this occurred," ABC said in its statement.

For Minaj, the show went on, as she continued her music set with her hit songs "Moment for Life" and "Super Bass."



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Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez win at teen choice Award

Country sensation Taylor Swift and actress/ singer Selena Gomez caught major waves last Sunday in Teen choice Awards.

Swift start her career last 2006 at the age of 16. She won the ultimate teen choice award. She was named a favourite female artist, country singer and red carpet fashion icon. She was also scored with best country single for her song “mean” and choice breakup song” back to December”.

19 year old Gomez, who performed her hit single "I Love You like a Love Song" with her band The Scene, won choice TV actress in a drama for her role in "Wizards of Waverly Place." She was also named choice "hottie," and The Scene scored the award for top band and for single of the year with their song "Who Says."

Accepting her Ultimate Teen Choice award onstage, Swift, 21, thanked her fans and joked that "it's been a long time since I was a teenager, like two years."

The Teen Choice Awards are an annual stop on Hollywood's award circuit and give actors, musicians and other artists who are popular with kids the chance to thank their fans.

Gomez also saw her boyfriend, Justine Bieber, who scoops up surfboards for being the top “hottie” as well as the choice “twit”. Bieber was also named top male artist and earned an acting award for his recent work on television.

But perhaps the most touching honor was not a Teen Choice surfboard, but a special "Inspire" trophy that went to Demi Lovato, an 18-year-old singer and actress who late last year pulled out of a concert tour to enter rehab for abuse issues.

"You guys are what got me through this last year," she said to screaming fans at the Teen Choice Awards. "Love is louder, I love you guys so much."

“Twilight” actor Robert Pattinson won the choice vampire for his role in the popular romance movie. He was also named best movie actor in drama.

Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Blake Lively and the cast of TV show "Glee," were announced also as winners.





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