First we find out Beyoncé's not pregnant, now her infamous music videos are on lockdown?! By the looks of the Grammy-winning, multihyphenate's YouTube page, Sony has blocked all of B's music videos and replaced them with this message: "This video contains content from Sony Music Entertainment, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds." The action comes on the heels of a copyright infringement issue involving Beyoncé's label, and as techie website Motherboard points out, no doubt stems from the floundering record industry and their desire to have a piece of the online video biz. No word yet on when those pieces of art Beyoncé calls music videos—you know you love "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"!— will be live on the web once more. We're just hoping more of our faves don't start vanishing from YouTube, too.
While Kristin Cavallari and Lo Bosworth have weighed in on what they want to see happen in the final season of "The Hills," premiering April 27, it seems that fans have two very specific ideas for what they want to see in the final 12 episodes: Lauren Conrad needs to return, and Speidi need to break up.
"I'd like to see more drama between the castmembers and new locations," Shelby told MTV News, with her friend Julia adding, "I'd also like to see Heidi and Lauren. ... If they're friends anymore or if they, like, get into a big, huge catfight."
It seems that getting LC to return is pretty high on most "Hills" fans' wish lists. "I would like to see Lauren come back on the show," Ally said. "She's my favorite. She's so cute and pretty and sweet. That's pretty much all I would really, really want to happen." Olivia added: "I'd still like to know what she's up to."
And while a lot of fans want LC back, other fans want Speidi to go their separate ways. "Heidi and Spencer [should] break up," Holly and her pal Charity agreed. "I don't really like it. She can do better." Meredith explained why she'd like to see the show's most infamous pair call it quits: "I think Heidi and Spencer should break up because he's a jerk."
"I think she can do a lot better," Erin added. "I think he's making her do a lot of bad things."
Chantelle had the perfect way to make all the fans happy: "Lauren needs to come back and maybe have a little affair with Spencer," she proposed.
What do you want to see happen in the final season of "The Hills"? Should LC come back? Should Speidi part ways? Tell us in the comments!
Fans agree that Heidi 'can do a lot better' than Spencer; 'The Hills: Final Season' premieres April 27 on MTV.
A cut in cancerous growth along with bonus reduction of particular proteins in the blood was observed while performing experiments on mice, pertaining to the consumption of walnut.
The U. S. Department of Agriculture Western Regional Research Center in Albany, California discovered if a certain amount of nuts are taken for consumption daily then the metabolism of tumor can be reduced.
It was the effect of a stomach bug which led to the closure of a ward at an Isle of Man hospital. This came in highlight when seven patients and two nurses were hit by a stomach bug.
At the ward 20 of the Nobles' Hospital it was mayhem when the outbreak of the stomach virus occurred.
The virus causes a viral gastroenteritis.
The ward has been forced to suspend new admissions and visitors are strictly advised not to wander around near the vicinity of the ward.
A study conducted by few scientists in London revealed that, turmeric an ingredient in the food prevents liver damage.
In this study an Austrian scientist noticed that curcumin, when given to mice results in reducing the amount of irritation cause by liver cell damage, blockage and scarring.
The team led by Michael Trauner of the Gastroenterology and Hepatology division at the Medical University Graz in Austria observed mice suffering from this disease for eight to nine weeks, they had taken their tissue and blood samples for test before and after giving them curcumin.
Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma says 43 persons died for commonwealth games during the construction of different sites at different locations. These included the workers working for developing a better infrastructure for the foreign players.
Delhi High Court has set up a panel of five officials to look in to the matter of workers' death at sites. During his stay in Delhi, Sharma told Indian authorities that they should look into the allegations made by the panel.
At the Royal College of GPs (RCGP), the health officials want to spend more time with patients for consultations. This they would do without any rise in their pays.
The ones with small injuries can see a nurse, whereas ones with long-term disease will have to ring a bell for help or go online for a video consultation.
Chief Minister of Haryana, Bhupinder Singh Hooda is proud to announce that Haryana is all set to be -TB Free State. Mr. Hooda said that Haryana has achieved third position in providing free second line treatment of Tuberculosis (TB) after Maharashtra and Gujarat.
He brought in to the picture, the initiatives to wipe out the disease and informed that Revised National Tuberculosis Control (RNTC) programme will be implemented to shrink the mortality rate and curtail the transmission of TB.
It was a surprise for the British couple David and Kerry Horan, who were blessed with a girl child. As it was established, if a woman (instead of a man) consumes Viagra she might conceive, reports CARE Nottingham fertility clinic.
Viagra is used as medication for men with erectile dysfunction as it increases the blood flow. In case of Kerry, who suffered a miscarriage in 2005 after 12 weeks, she was having trouble conceiving.
Dr George Ndukwe, who performed the experiment, came to know that if IVF had failed due to poor blood flow in the womb then it needs radical treatment.
The Perth storm has brought a flood of insurance claims, said Insurance Council of Australia.
The Western Australians alone submitted a claim of A$70 million since the March 22 hail storms took place.
Allianz, the insurance company has stated that it received 2,000 claims, costing it $17 million. The company also said that it is expected that some more claims will come up in some time.
As of now, the insurer claims that the total worth of these could range in between $200 to $300 billion.
It is with the growing concern of the privacy-conscious patients that the gown has been redesigned to reassure the dignity of NHS. It was the Health Minister, Ann Keen who rolled out the plan.
It was a joint effort of Department of Health and the Design Council who brought the designers to bring the new gown's design prototypes to solve the privacy issues pertaining to the patients.
This move taken by the NHS saw notion of ensuring patients a better experience.
Maruti Suzuki, on Wednesday, said that it has decided to invest more in its Gurgaon plant, which will produce more K-series petrol engines. As per the current estimations, the auto maker will put in Rs. 1,250 crore to increase its capacity to 500,000 units by 2012.
Just yesterday, it became the first automaker to touch the millionth mark in India. Maruti also came up with an Rs. 12,000 crore investment plan for its Manesar unit.
But with the new declaration, it would surely cross that level. The money declared will be used for capacity expansion and also technological upgradations.
On Wednesday, Homebuilder Lennar Corp. reported minor loss for the first quarter of financial 2010. The company also asserted that it is back on track to accomplish its goal of prosperity in fiscal 2010.
Established in 1954, Lennar operates as a home builder and provider of financial services in the U. S. The company's homebuilding processes comprise the construction and sale of single-family attached and detached homes, and multi-storied residential buildings, along with purchase, development, and sale of residential land.
In what has been considered as the biggest binding trade deal, British company, BG Group will be supplying $60 billion worth of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to China.
As per the statement made by the Resources Minister Martin Ferguson, the singing of deal has finally made official what is termed as the first full- length sales contract for LNG. This would be sourced from the coal seam gas project, situated in Queensland project.
The deal was signed in Beijing and would see an import of 72 million tons of LNG for 20 years time.
According to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) study of gross mortgage application volume, potential mortgage borrowers presented 4.2% less applications in the week ending March 19, subsequent to previous week's 1.9% drop.
MBA said that the number of applications submitted for home refinance slid 7.1% from the previous week, dropping the refinance share to 65% of all applications submitted from 67.3% the week earlier.
MBA said that the share of applications submitted for adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) increased to 4.8% of all applications, from 4.6% a week earlier.
Australia's sovereign wealth fund (SWF), the Future Fund has given its support to the $4.5 billion plan of buying Transurban.
In it the deal, Future fund is involved with and helping two Canadian pension funds to buy stake in the toll road operator.
After the news, the shares of Transurban went down by 6 per cent.
The talks between Transurban and Pension Plan Investment Board and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, have been going on for months. The two funds which already hold 28 per cent stake in the company, want to buy more stake by paying A$5.25 per share.
Under the guidance of a new ETF manager, an array of sector-specific exchange traded fund (ETFs) will be launched. These ETFs will be traded on the Australian Stock Exchange.
ETFs, which are low-cost and tax-saving schemes, have been existent in Australia since 2001. Till now they have been passively managed and their full potential has not been used properly till now.
The vacancies for skilled labor rose by 2.4 per cent during the month of March, latest data shows.
The skilled vacancies index was at 46.7 points, which is 11.8 per cent higher than the data for March 2008. This data was given by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. The good thing is that this is the first time since February 2007.
Two out of three occupations, which were monitored by the group, saw a rise.
As for the Internet vacancy index, it rose by 3.7 per cent to become 69.9 points. It was, however, 11.3 per cent lesser than the figure for February 2009.
French,Paris authorities on Tuesday aprihanded the widow of the former Rwandan president killed in a plane attack widely considered the event that sparked the east African country's 1994 genocide, a judicial official said.
Habyarimana is the widow of former President Juvenal Habyarimana. She had been living in Zaire, then France after being helped out of her country on April 9, 1994, by French forces based in Rwanda. Habyarimana had demanded for political asylum at 2004 but France rejected her , saying that she was at the heart of the regime responsible for her country's genocide. In October 2009, France's Council of State refused her bid to appeal the decision.
Agathe Habyarimana was taken into custody at her home in Courcouronnes, south of Paris, on a Rwandan warrant issued on genocide-related charges, according to the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter and could not be named.
Habyarimana is the widow of former President Juvenal Habyarimana. She had been living in Zaire, then FranceApril 9, 1994, by French forces based in Rwanda. France rejected her 2004 demand for political asylum, saying she was at the heart of the regime responsible for her country's genocide. In October 2009, France's Council of State refused her bid to appeal the decision. after being helped out of her country on
Agathe Habyarimana's arrest came just days after President Nicolas Sarkozy, on a visit to Rwanda, said that those responsible for the killings should be found and punished, including any who might be residing in France.
"We want those responsible for the genocide to be found and punished. There is no ambiguity about it," Sarkozy said. "Are there any in France? The justice system must decide."
Some 500,000 people, mostly ethnic Tutsis but also moderate Hutus, were massacred in less than 100 days in a frenzy of killings led by radical Hutus. The genocide followed the plane crash that killed the president. Two French pilots were in the cockpit.
The killings ended when Tutsi-led rebels under current President Paul Kagame defeated the Hutu extremists in July 1994.
A French advocacy group for Rwandan genocide survivors says France is a "haven" for those who helped perpetrate the genocide, and it has filed 16 lawsuits against people living here.
Sarkozy's trip to Rwanda was the first by a French head of state in 25 years. His visit was meant to reconcile the two countries, which restored diplomatic ties in November.
Relations had been broken over a French probe into the genocide that resulted in arrest warrants for nine people close to current President Paul Kagame. With the arrest of Habyarimana's widow, seven warrants are still active.
In addition, Rwanda has alleged a French role in the genocide.
"What happened here is unacceptable. What happened here requires the international community, including France, to reflect on the errors that prevented it from foreseeing and stopping this horrible crime," Sarkozy told a news conference.
Rwanda's government and genocide survivor organizations often have accused France of training and arming the militias and former government troops who led the genocide. In 1998, a French parliamentary panel absolved France of responsibility in the slaughter.
Sarkozy has referred to "serious errors of judgment" and "a form of blindness when we didn't see the genocidal aspect of the government of the president who was assassinated."
In her bid for refugee status, Habyarimana had argued that she had no power and merely took care of her house, her children and her garden. Judges said her claim was not credible.
A commission ruled that though Habyarimana had no official government post, she had de facto authority in state affairs. It said she was "at the heart of the regime," and "therefore was among the officials who planned the Rwandan genocide."The judges based their decision on documents and testimonies.
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