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Becks’ family not to join him in Italy
London, Jan.5 (ANI): David Beckham’s family will not be joining the England midfielder when he launches his Italian career.
According to The Independent, the 33-year-old could make his Serie A debut this weekend when AC Milan travel to Rome to face Roma.
Beckham, who is on loan at Milan and [...]

London, Jan 4 (ANI): Danny Jones, the lead singer of McFLY, has reportedly dumped his girlfriend of two years for Miss England.
According to sources, the crooner of the hell-raising band was caught snogging with Laura Coleman after performing at the Miss World pageant in South Africa.
He then admitted about the clinch to his loyal girlfriend [...]

When French shoppers start cutting back on buying champagne, oysters and foie gras for New Year, it’s been a rough year.
As Europe prepared to ring in 2009, many revellers said belt-tightening was their top New Year’s resolution. The vow followed the most volatile financial year in decades, a time that saw stock markets melt around [...]

Luiz Felipe Scolari insisted the English Premier League title race was still open as his Chelsea side went into 2009 three points behind leaders Liverpool.
The Blues topped the table at the end of November but have faltered since, with Liverpool taking full advantage.
Only once in the last four seasons has a team that led the [...]

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard was arrested early Monday after a fight in a bar on Merseyside, reports said.
The fight took place overnight in Southport, near Liverpool in northwest England, hours after English Premier League leaders Liverpool won 5-1 away to Newcastle on Sunday, with Gerrard scoring two goals.
“Six men were arrested on suspicion of section [...]

In a bid to cut down its budgetary costs, the Pakistan Cricket Board has decided to replace Australia-made Kookaburra cricket balls with locally manufactured ones in its domestic competitions.
The Board has informed all the participating teams in the ongoing Quaid-e-Azam trophy that they would be provided Kookaburra balls only for the first two rounds after [...]

A smashed guitar from the late grunge rocker Kurt Cobain has been sold to an unidentified private collector for $100,000.
Helen Hall, a broker in England, says it’s the second-highest known price for an item of Cobain memorabilia. The seller was punk rocker Sluggo of The Grannies and Hullabaloo.
The sale was confirmed Tuesday by Jacob McMurray, [...]

After a year when the words “wall”, “falling” and “crumbling” were never far from the headlines, Rahul Dravid could have been forgiven for thinking he had become Humpty Dumpty, instead of the most prolific No.3 batsman the world has ever seen. It really had been a wretched 2008, with 669 runs from 14 Tests before [...]