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DHAKA: Pop star Shakira thanks World Cup for making her meet with Gerard Pique, who is love of her life. The two met when Shakira was promoting her 2010 World Cup anthem, ‘Waka Waka’ for Africa and they now have an 18-month-old son together. Speaking ahead of her closing ceremony
DHAKA: Shakira, no doubt, the luckiest pop star who will perform for consecutive three years on the final day of World Cup Football, the greatest show on earth. International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) already said that Shakira will present her sports anthem ‘La La
DHAKA: Harry Potter villain Dave Legeno has died aged 50 while hiking in Death Valley in California. Dailymail.co.uk says on Saturday. The actor, who portrayed werewolf Fenrir Greyback in three movies in the wizard film franchise, was found by two hikers in the area on Sunday. The Inyo
DHAKA: JK Rowling has written a new short story about Harry Potter on her Pottermore fan website, set during the Quidditch world cup final.The 1,500-word tale is written in the style of a newspaper column by Daily Prophet reporter, Rita Skeeter, according to the BBC.The article reports
DHAKA: A former Playboy bunny has embraced Islam, comparing the transition to ‘rebirth’. Felixia Yeap announced her conversion to her 835,000 followers on Facebook on July 3, later revealing that she had taken up her new faith at the Taman Tun Dr Ismail Mosque in Kuala Lumpur,
DHAKA: ‘Transformers: Age Of Extinction’ is set to dethrone ‘Avatar’ as the highest grossing movie ever to be shown in China after it crossed the 1-billion yuan mark in box-office takings last Thursday.Chinese reports said, according to The Straits Times.As of last Friday
DHAKA: Jessica Simpson was extremely emotional at her rehearsal dinner. The 33-year-old star and her fiancé, Eric Johnson, were joined by approximately 70 family members and friends at San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, California on Thursday night for their first pre-wedding celebration
DHAKA: Beatles guitarist George Harrison’s childhood home will go on sale at an auction.The star lived at the terraced property in Liverpool, England with his parents between 1949 and 1965 and the building is now up for auction via Homes Bought Fast, reported contactmusic.com, says
DHAKA: Actor Deepika Padukone has been voted the sexiest woman in the world in a poll conducted by the FHM magazine. Deepika will feature in the new edition of the magazine, which she unveiled the edition featuring her and the other girls in the top 100 list of sexiest women. However,
DHAKA: Beyonce has topped the Forbes list of world’s 100 most powerful celebrity list for the first time since her debut on the list in 2004.The 32-year-old singer’s rapper husband Jay-Z gained the sixth spot who made 60 million dollars, the BBC reported, says The Times of
DHAKA: The film will also feature Sunny Deol as a gangster from Uttar Pradesh.According to Pathak, Preity Zinta has pulled it off with aplomb. ‘Preity plays an Uttar Pradeshwali. She plays a gangster’s daughter. She’s no-nonsense UP gangster and Sunny Deol’s wife,’ he added,
DHAKA: Bootylicious singer Jennifer Lopez is coming to Singapore. She will be lending her star power at the Padang Stage as the closing act of the Formula One Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix on September 21.The newly single 44-year old has been kept busy since her split from
DHAKA: ‘Transformers: Age Of Extinction’, the fourth in the series of films about form-changing Autobot robots that save the planet, powered up with US$100 million in box office sales, jump-starting a sleepy summer with the year’s biggest opening weekend. 22 Jump Street, starring
DHAKA: Reality TV star Kim Kardashian’s one-year-old daughter North became the target of a racial slur while onboard a plane in May.The 33-year-old star’s daughter with husband Kanye West, was allegedly screamed at by a woman while travelling in first class, reported E! online,
DHAKA: Bollywood diva Deepika Padukone, who is currently chilling out at Barcelona, has let her fans click her candid pictures. While the pictures have the actress posing and shopping around Barcelona, there is not even a single picture of her with her alleged beau Ranveer Singh. A
DHAKA: Bollywood diva Deepika Padukone, who is currently chilling out at Barcelona, has let her fans click her candid pictures. While the pictures have the actress posing and shopping around Barcelona, there is not even a single picture of her with her alleged beau Ranveer Singh. A
DHAKA: Monica Bedi is finally heaving a sigh of release. The actress has finally been issued a passport after the Mumbai High Court passed a favourable order in this regard.Monica, who was jailed for her alleged involvement with gangster Abu Salem, says, ‘Now that I have got my
DHAKA: Legendary soul singer and songwriter Bobby Womack, who penned hits for many of the greatest musicians of the 20th Century, has died at the age of 70. The cause of death was not announced, but Womack had suffered from cancer and Alzheimer’s disease and battled with drug
DHAKA: Star Cineplex arranged the Dhaka-premiere of ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’ in 3D at its halls at Bashundhara City Shopping Mall in city’s Panthapath area. The show of this latest Hollywood action, adventure and sci-fi sequel movie was held on Thursday evening. The movie
DHAKA: British singer Sam Smith has mirrored his UK chart success on the other side of the Atlantic by entering Billboard’s Top 200 at number two. The 22-year-old’s debut record, ‘In the Lonely Hour’, has sold 166,000 copies in its first week of release in the US and more than