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Another key piece of the fall film festival picture fell into place on Thursday, as the Venice Film Festival announced a lineup that will include Roman Polanski's "Carnage," Andrea Arnold's "Wuthering Heights" and Steven Soderbergh's "Contagion."

For the second year in a row, Oliver and Olivia were the most popular names for English and Welsh newborn boys and girls, respectivel

China is building two aircraft carriers as part of a military modernization program that is causing concern among other Asian countries, sources said on Wednesday.

Depression rates are higher in countries with higher incomes, a study found. 121 million people worldwide suffer from depression and rates are disproportionately high in countries with higher incomes. Depression significantly decreases quality of life and inherently comes with distorted, irrational, and negative thinking patterns.

Guinness confirmed that the one year old has the most digits on the planet.

Newspapers across India have Khar?s face plastered on covers, accompanied by flattering headlines.

Norwegian mass killer Andres Behring Breivik, who killed at least 76 people in his bombing and shooting spree in Oslo, wears his Indian connection on his arm and chest in some of his photographs.

?We have told Pakistan we are willing to discuss all issues with an open mind,? a senior Indian government official told media.

While it may seem strange for a far-right Western European to praise India?s Hindus, it is actually nothing new.

Gold held steady below its record high on Tuesday as investors waited to see if President Barack Obama's appeal for lawmakers to break a deadlock in U.S. debt talks would succeed, while the euro zone debt crisis lent support.

Breivik apparently has found some ?common ground? with right-wing Hindu nationalists over their mutual contempt and fear of Muslims.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: OceanFreight, S1 Corp., PLX Technology, Sanmina-SCI, and Broadcom. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Netflix, STEC, Fundtech, Rediff.com India, and Gulf Resources.

Except for being blue, Perry partly transformed herself into the cartoon character for the premier. She got her nails painted with the characters' images, dyed her hair blonde and sported a white Smurfs dress.

Before any facts could be ascertained, CNN and other news outlets reported that the people behind the mass killings were surety Muslims

Another impasse at the U.S. debt ceiling talks caused gold to touch new highs on Monday. Spot gold rose to a record $1,622.49 per ounce, an increase of 1.1 percent, as investors became nervous about the possibility of a U.S. rating downgrade. There are analysts who believe that irrespective of whether there will be a debt deal in the U.S. or not, gold will continue to rise higher, basically because of the residual weakness of the dollar.

Will the emergence of Anders Breivik ? a tall, blonde-haired and blue-eyed Christian ? change the Western public?s conception of what a ?terrorist? looks like?

Google's latest social networking site Google+ (or Google Plus) now boasts of over 20 million users but it surprisingly Business Profiles have nothing to do with it.

Iran and China are discussing using a barter system to exchange Iranian oil for Chinese goods and services, as U.S. sanctions have blocked China from paying at least $20 billion for oil, the Financial Times said.

According to comScore, Google+ has over 20 million users, not including those who visited the Website from Android or smartphones. Of them, 5 million users were from United States.

Has the popular and bizarre act of 'Planking' become yesterday? Well, you can't say no as yet another odd, but funny act called 'Owling' is on the rise, and sweeping across workplaces around the world.

Is Kate Middleton too thin for pregnancy?