Blogs Posts in Activities category; 51 blog posts

Valencia residents get together for a day of fun activities

THE children had fun, while the adults interacted and got to know their neighbours at the Valencia Family Fun Day held at the Valencia Village Square in Petaling Jaya last weekend.The community event featured activities like face-painting, [...]

Posted On : Oct, 18 2008 | Comments : 0

NASA readies craft to study moon's dust layer

Long before the next manned mission to the moon, Earth-bound scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View will send a spacecraft to the lunar surface to study its thick layer of dust and find out what kicks it up. The $80 mil [...]

Posted On : Apr, 12 2008 | Comments : 0

Zawahri says bin Laden in good health

Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was well and reports speculating about his sickness were false, his deputy Ayman al-Zawahri said in a recording on Wednesday. "Sheikh Osama bin Laden is in good health," Zawahri, who is also a doct [...]

Posted On : Apr, 03 2008 | Comments : 0

Baby Joy For Near Death Anorexic

Five years ago, weighing just 5st 1lb, Hayley Wilde was told by doctors she had only days left to live. So sick her hair fell out, the skeletal teenager, who had suffered from anorexia since she was 11, was hospitalised and brought back fro [...]

Posted On : Apr, 02 2008 | Comments : 0

Vatican: Islam Has "Overtaken" Catholicism

For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us," Monsignor Vittorio Formenti said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. Formenti compiles the Vatican's yearbook. [...]

Posted On : Mar, 31 2008 | Comments : 0

Sarkozy's wife hailed as France's Princess Diana

The day after splashing pictures of her naked, Britain's tabloids hailed Carla Bruni as a fashion queen who could be the new Princess Diana. "What a difference a day makes ... and this time she remembered to put some clothes on,&quo [...]

Posted On : Mar, 27 2008 | Comments : 0

Spears' order appeal thrown out

A challenge to a court ruling that puts Britney Spears' father in control of her assets until July has been dismissed by a US appeal court. Lawyer John Eardley, who claims to represent the singer, argued she had not been given sufficient [...]

Posted On : Mar, 25 2008 | Comments : 0

Halle Berry has baby girl

Halle Berry doesn't just play a mom in movies anymore. The 41-year-old actress had a baby girl Sunday, and "is doing great," her publicist Meredith O'Sullivan told People.com, the Web site of People magazine. It is her first ch [...]

Posted On : Mar, 17 2008 | Comments : 0

Which Idol Will Fall First?

If this was the best top 24 ever, then it stands to reason that this is the best top 12 ever. I may be drinking the kool-aid because, to my eyes, this top 12 looks as strong, top to bottom, as I’ve seen. David, is this the best top 12 [...]

Posted On : Mar, 12 2008 | Comments : 0

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to induct Madonna

Pop star Madonna, folk singer Leonard Cohen, rocker John Mellencamp, British pop band The Dave Clark Five and instrumental group The Ventures will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday. The five artists have been chos [...]

Posted On : Mar, 11 2008 | Comments : 0

Pakistan Rivals Join to Fight Musharraf

The leaders of the two major political parties here, in an unexpectedly strong show of unity against President Pervez Musharraf, agreed Sunday that they would reinstate the judges fired by the president and would seek to strip him of cruc [...]

Posted On : Mar, 10 2008 | Comments : 0

Ex-model Waris Dirie found in Brussels

Police on Friday found Waris Dirie, three days after the Somali-born model who launched a worldwide campaign against female genital mutilation had vanished. Dirie, 43, appeared to be in good health and was being questioned by police about [...]

Posted On : Mar, 08 2008 | Comments : 0

Penthouse magazine plans $250 mln IPO

The owner of Penthouse magazine, once known for its hard-core brand of porn, plans to hit up Wall Street this year for $250 million as it cleans up its act and aims to make a name for itself on the Internet. Penthouse Media Group, former [...]

Posted On : Mar, 06 2008 | Comments : 0

Victims of Queen West fire get star treatment from local bus...

Residents who lost their homes in the Queen West fire are getting the star treatment from local businesses that have lavished them with everything from vegetarian bath goods and designer outfits to luxury hotel stays and gourmet packed lu [...]