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A diminutive woman, no more than five feet tall, feints and sways away from a punch. Then, dancing around the boxing ring, her left hook slams into her much larger opponent, making her rival wince in pain.

Patrice Evra has lost his appeal against a cell suspension of five games of the French national team. The French Football Federation imposed the ban on Evra role in the formation of a boycott of French team of the World Cup in South Africa. Manchester United left back Evra, who was captain of the team to challenge the suspension, but Thursday was his sentence was upheld by the Appeal Board FFF.

He is best known for his roles in small groups as Boone Carlyle in "Lost," but these days Ian Somerhalder be recognized in turn as a vampire Damon Salvatore on the television series "The Vampire Diaries". Somerhalder, 31, was held in Atlanta, Georgia, filming season 2 of the series after spending a summer drive pulled in two directions: the promotion of the CW network show ahead of his return on Thursday and contributes to environmental awareness in his home state of Louisiana following the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He is passionate about the environment and animal welfare, but he says he will not be another celebrity with a cause for pets, to push an agenda.

Search Hollywood! Three actresses are immersed in film directing for the first time, Thanks for Glamour magazine. Jessica Biel, Eva Mendes and Oscar winner Rachel Weisz are each directed a short film for Glamour magazine's annual Reel Moments. "Movies are based on true stories written by Glamour readers on a personal story of a time a help or a fact. Thousands of applications poured in Glamour magazine and reduced to the most adaptable to film.

Rich Cronin, former lead singer of boy band LFO and writer of 1999 hit Summer Girls, died on Wednesday after a battle with leukemia, a celebrity Web site TMZ.com reports. He was 35 The news was also reported Twitter Lance Bass, former 'N Sync, which Cronin describes as "an extraordinary guy." It is unclear to what Cronin has died.

The priest in a small church in Florida has threatened to reconsider its decision to abandon plans for an event weekend Quran fire. A few hours after the call for the ceremony, much criticized at the time of the anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, Terry Jones backtracked and said that the pastor had just been suspended. "Right now we're just putting a temporary suspension of our planned event," he said.

Hello "true believers", is Stan Lee, "said the famous comic book creator of the world. His booming voice and magnetic behavior in the mouth and eyes agape digging around the room. There is something magical Lee: It's like a super hero in disguise of a buttoned shirt and beige trousers.

Apple said it would publish guidelines used to determine which programs are sold in the App Store to appease criticism of the developers. The company, known for its surveillance products of fans, has been the subject of complaints from companies that have blocked the application at the store. Some developers have complained that the rules seem incompatible.

President Barack Obama denied Thursday that the increasing violence in Mexico are more like the British at the height of its war against drugs, rejected comments by his Secretary of State..

Nearly nine years after 11 September terrorist attacks, a record number of Americans believe the U.S. is unlikely ever to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, according to a new national survey. Nearly two-thirds of Americans are not personally afraid of being a victim of terrorism. And most said they are ready to face an attack, should the worst happen.

Pakistan's Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast and said it would launch attacks in the United States and Europe "very soon" -- repeating a threat to strike Western targets in response to drone attacks that have targeted its leadership. In Washington, the White House condemned the Quetta attack on a Shi'ite rally expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people, saying it was "even more reprehensible" because it came during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan as Pakistan reels from disastrous flooding. A U.S. counterterrorism official said the threat by the al Qaeda-linked Taliban against the United States and Europe could not be discounted. The attack came just two days after Washington added the Pakistani Taliban to its list of "foreign terrorist organizations" and charged its leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, with plotting a bombing that killed seven CIA agents at a U.S. base in Afghanistan last December. In Quetta, dozens of dead and ...

Authorities declared a formal civil defense state of emergency to coordinate recovery operations in the city, which has a population of about 350,000 people, after facades collapsed into streets, crushing cars and blocking roads. Two men suffered serious injuries and police closed off the central business district. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.1 and a depth of 10 kms (6 miles), hitting the South Island city and a large surrounding area of farms at around 4.35 a.m. local time (12:35 p.m. EDT Friday). "There's a lot of damage that I've been able to observe in the central city area, mainly of the old brick and masonry buildings, a number of those have got walls that have fallen into the street," Christchurch mayor Bob Parker told Radio New Zealand. The city's hospital said two men had been admitted with serious injuries, one hit by a falling chimney and the other cut by glass. It had also treated a few other people with broken bones, cuts and grazes. P...

A cargo plane has crashed at an air force base shortly after take-off from Dubai airport, killing two crew members on board, officials say. There were no injuries on the ground and commercial air traffic was not affected, they added. The plane was a Boeing 747 belonging to US company United Parcel Service (UPS). A UAE official told local media the plane was diverted to the base after reporting trouble. It hit a covered car park then bounced and crashed, he said. Smoke was seen billowing from inside the walled compound. Some reports said a fire had broken out in the plane just after it took off from Dubai international airport. The plane flew near a residential area popular with expatriates where residents saw its last desperate moments. "I saw the explosion from my balcony and felt the blast," said Tony Meechan, a British expatriate living in Silicon Oasis, a technology park on the Emirates Road. "There was a big fireball that lit up the full sky in orange. After that t...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who entrtained the first session of talks between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, expressed confidence that this effort could succeed while so many others have failed. Obama aiming to resolve the world’s one of the most intractable disputes , he has set a deal with in 12 months to crate an independent Palestinian state that exist peacefully. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “ this will not to easy, A true peace, a lasting peace, would be achieved only with mutual and painful concessions from both sides."

he cow is worshipped in India and a majority of Hindus do not eat beef. The slaughter of cattle is also banned in several states. Committe chairman suresh kalmadi said in his official website that they made a decision some weeks ago and have informed their catering contractors accordingly. They are issuing this clarification since there seems to be a perception that cow meat would be served during the Games. he hope this will clear any remaining doubts. India's main opposition party, the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), sent a letter to organisers in January calling for a beef ban for the Oct. 3-14 event.

The festival, which takes place over four days in the ski resort town of Telluride, Colorado, is considered a key event for cineastes featuring an eclectic group of foreign and U.S. movies. This year's highlights include British director Mike Leigh's "Another Year," Mexican filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's "Biutiful" and a documentary from Martin Scorsese, "A Letter to Elia," about legendary director Elia Kazan . Both "Another Year," starring Jim Broadbent and Lesley Manville, and "Biutiful," with Javier Bardem, debuted at this past May's Cannes film festival and earned solid praise. Bardem shared Cannes' best actor prize playing a man struggling to cope with his life. Others in Telluride's key section, called the Show, include U.S. director Mark Romanek's "Never Let Me Go," Stephen Frears U.K.-entry "Tamara Drewe," Australian Peter Weir's feature "The Way Back" wi...

T.I. whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr., 29, was arrested with his wife on Sunset Boulevard Wednesday night after police smelled marijuana coming from a car in which the Grammy award-winning rapper was a passenger. He was booked for possession of a controlled substance and was released after posting bail of $10,000. He is yet to be formally charged because testing is currently being conducted on a handful of "pills resembling ecstasy," a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County sheriff's department said. T.I.'s next court appearance has been set for Friday. The Atlanta-born rapper and actor previously has been in trouble with the law, including numerous arrests on drugs and weapons charges. He was released from a halfway house five months ago after being sentenced to a year in prison on federal weapons charges.

Kabul Bank Long queues were seen outside several Kabulbank branches in the Afghanistan capital, with customers rushing to withdraw their funds a day after central bank governor Abdul Qadir Fitrat said Kabulbank's chairman and chief executive officer had quit. "We have assurances to people that their deposits are not lost, will not be lost," Afghanistan's Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal told a news conference. "We are requesting people not to rush. We know the money is there, they must not panic. We are sure, a hundred percent, that the bank is safe," he said.

Since Dell was willing to spend over $2 billion on 3PAR, analysts said the company could go after other small, niche technology companies, although they may no longer be bargains as deal speculation has boosted share prices. "It is definitely a loss for Dell, but this is a situation where they were competing with someone about four times their size," said Andrew Redmond, an associate in the technology investment banking group of investment banking firm TM Capital. Analysts say potential targets in data storage could include Compellent Technologies Inc ( CML.N ), whose shares jumped 18.5 percent on Thursday; CommVault Systems Inc ( CVLT.O ), whose shares rose 5.2 percent; Isilon Systems Inc ( ISLN.O ), which rose 3.5 percent; as well as privately held Pillar Data Systems and DataDirect Networks.

Soldiers were sent to the location after an airborne patrol sighted armed men outside a building. Fighting began when the men opened fire on the troops. Three people who presumably had been kidnapped by the gang were freed following the fighting. Two soldiers were wounded. Troops seized 23 vehicles, including two painted in army colors, two dozen guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. The clash was originally reported to have taken place in the state of Nuevo Leon, where business hub Monterrey is located, but actually took place across the border in neighboring Tamaulipas. Tamaulipas state has become one of Mexico's bloodiest drug flashpoints since the start of the year as rival hitmen from the Gulf cartel and its former armed wing, the Zetas, fight over smuggling routes into the United States. Mexican marines found the bodies of 72 Central and South American migrants gunn

Two American troops died in fighting in Afghanistan today, while NATO said it had killed the leader of an insurgent cell responsible for laying roadside bombs and smuggling foreign fighters into the country. NATO said one service member was killed in the country's east, the other in the south region. where fighting between the coalition and Taliban insurgents has been at its most intense. No other details were given in keeping with standard NATO procedure. The deaths bring to three the number of U.S. service members killed in September and follows a spike in casualties during the last two weeks of August that saw the monthly total rise to 55. The August figure was still below the back-to-back monthly records of 66 in July and 60 in June, although total U.S. combat deaths in January-August of this year — 316 — last month exceeded the previous annual record figure of 304 for the whole of 2009.

Australian spin legend Shane Warne and former England coach Duncan Fletcher today joined the growing clamour for life bans on Pakistani cricketers Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir if they are found guilty of 'spot-fxing'. Pakistan's Test skipper Butt and pacers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad are facing a Scotland Yard investigation over their alleged involvement in a betting scam "exposed" by a British tabloid's sting operation.

Israeli Prime Mimister Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mohmmud Abbas will meet . After relaunching talks after 20 th month hiatus an dseeking deal with one year that will setup an independent state in Palestinian state side-by-side with asecure Israel. During the political meeting held on Washington Obama asked pivotal U.S congressional election year ,urged both sides to grasp the chance for peace at the white house on Wednesday.He also said”This moment of opportunity may not soon come again. They cannot afford to let it slip away," after a day of personal diplomacy on a problem that has confounded generations of U.S. leaders.

Andy Murray given an warning to Federer and Nadal about his intentions to win the U.S.Open when he cruised through first match at meadowns on Wednesday.After Victoria sent a shiver through the tennis world when she fainter Clijsters and Williams , both champions are dazzled their opponents , Ashe Stadium crowds but it was morning tumble on one of the outside courts that sent pulses racing at the year last. The Belarussian had succumbed to scorching heat at last year's Australian Open and there were fears she had been a victim of the extreme temperatures that had forced U.S. Open organisers to invoke their rarely used Extreme Weather Policy.