London, Mar 23 (ANI): Bruce Willis has tied the knot for the second time.

He got married to model Emma Heming in a Caribbean island ceremony attended by his ex-wife Demi Moore and their three daughters, his spokesman has said.

Moore, whose 13-year marriage to Willis ended in 2000, married actor Ashton Kutcher, 31, in 2005.

The spokesman said that Kutcher also attended the event in the Turks and Caicos islands, reports the Telegraph.

Heming, 32, is a model for the racy ‘Victoria’s Secret,’ line of lingerie.

According to US television, A-list celebrity guests included Queen of Pop Madonna. (ANI)

London, Mar 23 (ANI): A Scot barber has found what he says to be an exact likeness to Jesus Christ’s face on a church wall.

Crimper Alan Stocks, 40, had been taking a break between customers outside his shop, when he noticed the image, which had a beard like Jesus and a crown of thorns made from moss growing on the stone.

The wall runs down one side of Greenock Westburn Church in the Inverclyde town.

“I noticed the face on the wall as soon as I saw it – it’s incredible. It definitely looks like Jesus,” the Sun quoted him as saying.

“I was outside having a wee break and the face caught my eye – I’ve never noticed it before.

“I usually come to the same place most days for a break

“But it’s really strange that it’s on a church wall as well especially with it coming up for Easter. It’s as if it’s just appeared at this time of the year,” he stated.

Stocks showed the face to his wife Sharon, 38, who was also struck by the likeness to Jesus, and took a photo to show pals.

“Everyone I’ve shown the picture to has been the same – they’ve been stunned to see the face,” he said.

“And it’s certainly a mystery as to how it has appeared on the wall now,” he added.

Greenock Westburn’s Minister Rev Douglas Hamilton is yet to see the image, but says that he is happy with it.

“If it brings a smile to people’s faces I’m happy with it. Though I’m not expecting flocks of pilgrims down to see it,” he said. (ANI)

Islamabad, Feb.12 (ANI): The Taliban claiming responsibility for the death 26 people in suicide attacks on two government buildings in Kabul, Afghanistan, suggests that the militant outfit has the potential to come up with new and more violent responses in the coming days.

Given this latest scenario in Afghanistan, it comes as no surprise that security in Pakistan, and particularly in Islamabad, has been tightened to unprecedented levels.

According to Syed Saleem Shahzad, the Pakistan Bureau Chief of the Asia Times Online, the attack on Kabul comes even as both Barack Obama (US) and Gordon Brown (UK) have announced the appointment of Special Envoys for Pakistan and Afghanistan to strengthen Pakistan’s role against the Taliban and al-Qaeda, as well as trying to bring India into the fold of their strategic partnership.

In an article for the website, Shahzad says that the Taliban has made its bloody presence felt, and the attack on Kabul, is “reminiscent of the Pakistan-linked terror attack on the Indian city of Mumbai last November”.

“The attack, the most complex and brazen in the (Afghan) capital since the Taliban were ousted in 2001, involved five armed militants”, and came a day ahead of a visit by US Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke.

According to Shahzad, it “can be seen as a clear statement that even while furious diplomatic activity is taking place involving among others Washington and Moscow, the Taliban voice will be heard.”

He further says in his article that the attack “comes as something of a surprise as it was widely believed that the Taliban would lie relatively low ahead of this year’s spring offensive.”

He says that on the battlefields in Pakistan and Afghanistan, plans are afoot to launch the strongest offensive yet against militants.

“This could begin once Pakistani army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kiani returns to Pakistan from the United States where he will discuss in detail the dynamics of the militancy and enhanced cooperation between Islamabad and Washington,” he says.

Across the border, in India, there are also murmurings of al-Qaeda terror cells exploding into action to deter India from aligning with Western forces against the Taliban-led resistance in Afghanistan.

Al-Qaeda assesses 2009 as the year in which it could fight its fiercest – if not decisive – battle: the flames of war could flare at any time, anywhere, he concludes. (ANI)

Islamabad, Feb.12 (ANI): The Pakistan Government’s admission on Thursday that terrorists involved in the attack Mumbai on November 26, 2008, planned some of the strategy in Pakistan, should be seen as “well timed and a clever diversion of the case”.

According to one analysis, the disclosure made by Rehman Malik, the Pakistan Prime Minister’s Adviser on Interior Affairs, is “well timed” because it has come at a time when President Barack Obama’s Special Envoy on Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard C. Holbrooke, is due to visit New Delhi.

Rehman’s portrayal of both Pakistan and India being joint victims of terror, the analysis says has a twin objective — (1) To show Islamabad’s sincerity and desire to bring the perpetrators of the attack on Mumbai to justice, and in doing so, look good and cooperative, and (2) To convince other countries, including India, that the attack has the smackings of an international conspiracy involving “non-state actors”.

The questions posed by Malik during his press conference on Thursday, the analysis says, “will naturally take time to answer”, but it also suggests that the posers have been “designed to prolong the issue further”.

A reference to an Indian being involved in the bomb blast of the Samjhauta Express near Panipat, the analysis says is likely to queer the political and security pitch in the Indian subcontinent.

Will Pakistan allow a trial of its citizens in India? Will Islamabad seek Ajmal Amir Kasab’s extradition for trial as per Pakistani laws? These are questions that still remain to be answered.

There is a view that the probe in the Mumbai attack case may just have the similar fate as the Daniel Pearl Case-”Nothing will happen”.

Pakistan, according to the analysis, “has bought time and India will be told to cooperate.” (ANI)

New Delhi, Feb 12 (ANI): The Steel Authority of India (SAIL) today handed over a cheque of Rs. 460.81 crore to the government as the interim dividend for the year 2008-09.

Minister for Steel, Chemicals and Fertilisers Ram Vilas Paswan received the cheque from the Chairman, SAIL, S.K.Roongta here.

SAIL had earlier announced interim dividend of 13 per cent for financial year 09.

Receiving the cheque Paswan enquired about the progress of the expansion programme. He reiterated that SAIL should adhere to the schedule and complete the expansion on time.

Minister of State for Steel, Jitin Prasada and the Steel Secretary P.K.Rastogi were present on the occasion. (ANI)

Melbourne, Feb 12 (ANI): A woman has filed a massive 4-billion dollar class action suit against Miley Cyrus, who was recently pictured mocking Asians by slanting her eyes.

Lucie J. Kim, who lives in Los Angles, claimed when Cyrus posed for the photo she “knew or should have known that her image would be publicly disseminated via the media,” reports TMZ.com.

Kim says in the suit that each Asian Pacific Islander is entitled to the minimum damages for a civil rights violation – 4,000 dollars, that’s about 4 billion dollars, the Daily Telegraph reported.

Following the controversy, Cyrus has apologized for the second time after initially saying she was only trying to pull a funny face in the pictures. (ANI)

Washington, Feb 10 (ANI): Scientists have found evidence in Bermuda that Earth’s sea level was once more than 70 feet higher about 400,000 years ago than it is now, which may be critical for anticipating the possible effects of future climate change.

The clues for this ancient rise in sea level was found by Storrs Olson, research zoologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, and geologist Paul Hearty of the Bald Head Island Conservancy.

They discovered sedimentary and fossil evidence in the walls of a limestone quarry in Bermuda that documents a rise in sea level during an interglacial period of the Middle Pleistocene in excess of 21 meters above its current level.

The nature of the sediments and fossil accumulation found by Olson and Hearty was not compatible with the deposits left by a tsunami but rather with the gradual, yet relatively rapid, increase in the volume of the planet’s ocean caused by melting ice sheets.

A rise in sea level to such a height would have ramifications well beyond geology and climate modeling.

For the organisms of coastal areas, and particularly for low islands and archipelagos, such a rise would have been catastrophic.

“We have only to look at Bermuda to begin to assess the impact for terrestrial organisms or seabirds dependant on dry land for nesting sites,” said Olson.

“This group of islands in the Atlantic was so compromised as a nesting site for seabirds that at least one species of shearwater became extinct as well as the short-tailed albatross, marking the end of all resident albatrosses in the North Atlantic,” he added.

Determining the timing and extent of this global rise in sea level is not only important for interpreting the influence that it may have had on biogeographical patterns and extinctions of organisms on islands and low-lying continental coastal areas, it is also critical for anticipating the possible effects of future climate change.

This particular interglacial period is considered by some scientists to be a suitable comparison to our current interglacial period.

With future carbon dioxide levels possibly rising higher than any time in the past million years, it is important to consider the potential effects on polar ice sheets.

According to Olson, “These findings are incredibly important and have major relevance because of their potential predictive value since this sea-level rise took place during the interglacial period most similar to the present one now in progress.”

“It thus becomes essential that the full extent and duration of this event be more widely recognized and acknowledged,” he added. (ANI)

Washington, Feb 10 (ANI): It seems Americans need to very work hard on their spellings, for a new study has found that majority of the adult population is unable to spell words like “embarrassed”, “liaison” and “millennium”.

According to a study conducted by the London-based Spelling Society, 62 percent of the people find it hard to spell “embarrassed” correctly.

Almost 61 percent failed to spell liaison, while 52 percent misspelled “millennium”.

Although American women emerged as better spellers, but members of both sexes struggled with words like “accommodation”, “separate”, “definitely” and “accidentally”.

The study also showed that nearly 78 pct of the men surveyed were unable to spell “friend”.

More than half of the women could not get “liaison” right.

Edward Baranowski, a linguist with California State University at Sacramento blames the nature of the English language for the decline.

“We have different spellings for the same sound, especially for vowels – silent letters, missing letters and a system which reflects how English was spoken in the 13th to 15th centuries, not how it is spoken today,” The Washington Times quoted Baranowski as saying.

“So many sound changes have occurred in the language, which are not reflected in modern spelling, that we are left with a ‘fossilized’ system.

“Perhaps if English had had an effective language academy, such as those in France or Spain, this would have been mitigated over time,” he added.

The Spelling Society calls for a regular spelling system for the U.S. and Britain.

“Let’s allow people greater freedom to spell logically,” said John Wells, a linguist with the University College London.

“It’s time to remove the fetish that says that correct spelling is a principal mark of being educated. Let’s spell logically just as you do in Spanish, Italian or Swedish,” he added.

Meanwhile, commonly misspelled words have drawn the ire of dictionary publishers.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, for example, words such as address, beautiful, immediate and skillful are worries for would-be perfectionists. (ANI)