What, the reporter asked, can audiences expect to see from the former boxer’s planned one-man Broadway show? “I’m not saying I’m a mesmerizer,” Mr. Tyson said, “but I had people mesmerized.” Later, he added, “I don’t know if I’m people-friendly, but I know I entertain them.” The show, unveiled Monday at the Longacre Theater, will [...]
Actor Mona Singh won hearts as an ugly, yet confident duckling in “Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahi”, and now as a strong woman who battles her husband’s infidelity in “Kya Huaa Tera Vaada”, she wants to inspire women across the country. “As an actor, I am here to inspire women in whatever way I can,” Mona [...]
CAIRO — Egypt’s military rulers on Sunday officially recognized Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood as the winner of Egypt’s first competitive presidential election, handing the Islamists both a symbolic triumph and a potent weapon in their struggle for power against the country’s top generals. Mr. Morsi, 60, an American-trained engineer and former lawmaker, is the first [...]
On Monday Cheryl Cole was a sexy seductress in skintight leather trousers, graphic print top and fierce heels to promote new album A Million Lights in London, but she swapped to a dress-down denim diva in the space of 24 hours. Yesterday we saw Cheryl paying a visit to HMV in her home town of Newcastle with a very different [...]
Katie Price’s son Harvey, 10, suffers fromPrader-Willi syndrome – a genetic disorder that causes learning difficulties, deformities, aggression and an insatiable appetite. The mum-of-three knows her eldest child will not be able to cope alone as an adult. ‘I don’t ever want him to leave home,’ revealsKatie, 34. ‘I’m having a log cabin built where he [...]
Around the time the iPad came out more than two years ago, Microsoft executives got an eye-opening jolt about how far Apple would go to gain an edge for its products. Microsoft learned through industry sources that Apple had bought large quantities of high-quality aluminum from a mine in Australia to create the distinctive cases for the [...]
The annual budget ritual is gradually approaching the finale. Interest groups have done their work in the numerous discussion meetings and dialogues with the Finance Minister (FM). The nation had the privilege of viewing the high and mighty disseminating their wisdom – courtesy of the electronic media and the groups that bankrolled them. They made [...]
Market gloom prevailed early Monday at the start of a crucial week for the euro, as Spain made a formal application for billions in aid for its sickly banks and European leaders prepare for talks over the creation of a European banking union to shore up the currency. Stock markets and the euro dropped amid pessimism [...]
Bangladesh Association of Banks (BAB) has decided to seek six months’ time extension from the securities regulator for purchasing minimum two per cent shares by sponsor-directors of listed banks, officials said. The decision was taken at a meeting of the association, which was held Sunday in the city with BAB President Nazrul Islam Majumder in the chair. “We [...]
U Thein Sein The President of Myanmar U Thein Sein is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on July 15 on a three-day visit to forge cooperation in a wide range of areas of trade, border management and security aspects, a senior official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said. The two countries will hold ‘foreign [...]