Vindoo dara Singh: Actor has been arrested for having links with bookies in the IPl spot fixing
Amitabh Bachchan: The legendry actor gave an opening ceremony address in Hindi at the Cannes International Film Festival
Bernard Waber: The children’s book author and illustrator whose most famous creation was a rope-skipping, ice-skating Manhattanite named lyle who happened to be a crocodile, died at the age of 91 on Thursday in Baldwin, NY
Major Tim Peake: Britain's first official astronaut, 41-year-old Major Tim Peake, has been selected to go on a five-month mission to the International Space Station in 2015
Oklahoma: A massive tornado, which was estimated to be at least 2 miles wide, ripped through the US city of Oklahoma, killing at least 91, including seven children
Iraq: A series of car bombings and shootings killed at least 61 people and wounded around 200 others
Kolkata: The Kolkata Police on Wednesday arrested nine persons, including a known bookie Ajit Surekha, in connection with the IPl spot-fixing scandal
Tam O'Shanters: Scientists dusting off half-century old archives of sea urchins have discovered seven new species they didn't know existed in New Zealand waters. The dramatic finds include a clarification over the mystery of one giant deepwater species - whose only previous evidence of existence was destroyed when the Berlin museum it was housed in was heavily bombed in Word War Two. The sea urchins, known as Tam O'Shanters because of their likeness to the Scottish headwear, live up to 1200m underwater, most commonly in New Zealand around the Bay of Plenty seamounts. They live so deep that divers can't reach them, and they never wash up on beaches. Fishermen occasionally haul them up in their nets, and when an unusual find surfaces, they're given to the National Institute Of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) to identify.
DEAD EVER AFTER (must read): by Charlaine Harris. (Ace) The telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse searches for the truth about the death of the former barmaid Arlene
Trouble Will Find Me (MUST lISTEN): by The National Band. It’s the plushest, most burnished album from a New York City band that has increasingly leaned toward the measured and stately
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