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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?

Is Kate Middleton too thin for pregnancy?

Is there a way to get a quick-read on the U.S. economy, for those who are time-pressed, and don't have time to review the latest economic reports from the U.S. Federal Reserve? Indeed there is: review the performance of diversified industrial giant General Electric (GE).

The launch of Google’s new social networking site, Google+, had set off of debate over its potential for survival in a field dominated by Facebook.

In the U.S. alone, more than 5-million visitors have gone on Google+.

GE's stock opened in positive territory Friday after the company beat Wall Street's expectations in second quarter earnings. GE was upbeat about the future, including the latter half of 2011 and into 2012.

The Pakistani government has formally protested Washington's move to arrest a man accused of spying to influence U.S. policy on Kashmir.

Hina Rabbani Khar, who is reportedly 34 years old, is also the youngest foreign minister in Pakistan’s history.

Nepal is set to re-measure the height of the world's tallest peak, Mount Everest, to settle a longstanding dispute with neighboring China.

The World Uyghur Congress (WUC), the shooting took place not at a police station, but at the close main bazaar of Hotan, in the Nurbagh area, when more than 100 local Uighurs peacefully gathered to protest a police crackdown imposed on the city for the last two weeks.

Nepal has ordered a new measurement of Mount Everest to determine its exact height and end a series of disputes.

Two of the top three test teams will battle it out at Lord's -- considered the home of Cricket -- as India and England commence their test series on Thursday.

Both took to twitter to show their displeasure at the rumor.