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Beyonce, J.Lo to headline London charity concert for women LOS ANGELES: Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez and Florence & The Machine are teaming up for a four-hour charity concert in London next month to benefit women's health and education projects around the world.The "Sound of Change Live" concert on June 1 in London's Twickenham sports stadium could fund at least 120 projects supporting girls and women in more than 70 nations, if all the tickets are sold, organizers said on Wednesday.Organized by the Chime for Change campaign, founded by Italy fashion house Gucci, every ticket buyer will be able to choose which project their ticket will fund in what organizers said was a world first for such a venture.Beyonce, currently on a European tour, will play a 45-minute set. She will be joined in the venture by singer and dancer Lopez, R&B artist John Legend, British indie sensation Ellie Goulding and rapper Timbaland, with more performers still to be announced.US actors ...


20 years on, world's first web page to be reborn GENEVA: The world's first web page will be dragged out of cyberspace and restored for today's Internet browsers as part of a project to celebrate 20 years of the Web, organisers said on Tuesday.The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said it had begun recreating the website that launched that World Wide Web, as well as the hardware that made the groundbreaking technology possible.The world's first website was about the technology itself, according to CERN, ...

Bollywood dynasties keep it in the family MUMBAI: As Indian cinema turns 100 years old, one powerful Bollywood dynasty can trace the roots of their stardom almost right back to the birth of the national film industry."We have been there throughout. All the milestones of cinema, there has been some Kapoor or the other," says 60-year-old Rishi Kapoor, who has notched up nearly 150 Hindi film credits over a four-decade acting career.It started with grandfather Prithviraj, a silver screen pioneer from the ...

'Pain and Gain' muscles to top of US box office LOS ANGELES: Action comedy "Pain & Gain," starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, grabbed the top spot at the US box office in its debut weekend, industry figures showed Monday.The Paramount Pictures production about bodybuilders caught up in a botched kidnapping scheme snagged $20.2 million, according to tracker Exhibitor Relations."Oblivion," the post-apocalyptic action flick starring Tom Cruise, came in second with $17.8 million in ticket sales, ahead of "42," a biopic about trailblazing ...

Pony-tail stuntman dies on a zip-line in India KOLKATA: A daredevil Indian who held the Guinness World Record for the distance travelled on a zip-line while hanging by his hair has died while performing a new stunt, officials said Monday.Sailendra Nath Roy, a 49-year-old police driver, was attempting to cross the turbulent River Teesta on Sunday in the state of West Bengal on a 180-metre (594-foot) wire above the water.After attaching his shoulder-length hair to a pulley on the zip-line, Roy had completed ...

Big B, Vidya Balan and Jackie Shroff come together to help Sanjay Dutt KARACHI: Bollywood superstars Amitabh Bachan, Vidya Balan and Jackie Shroff have reportedly decided to do something worthwhile for Sanjay Dutt while he is going through this tough phase.The three stars will reportedly make cameo appearances in Dutt’s home production “Hasmukh Pighal Gaya” to be directed by Sejal Shah. The film also features Dutt’s niece Nazia Hussain as well as legendary filmmaker OP Ralhan’s grandson Arman.According to Indian media sources, the whole idea behind the film ...

Victoria Beckham plans UK store as juggles family and fashion LONDON: British fashion designer and former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham said life as a working mother is a struggle but she relishes the challenge and plans to expand her empire with a retail store in London.As mother to three boys - Brooklyn, 14, Romeo, 10, and Cruz, 8 - and to 21-month-old daughter Harper, Beckham said balancing her family life and career was a constant juggle."The children are my priority and always have been and ...


 



 
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Banking Review 2012

Annual2011/12
Foreign Debt $65.562bn
Per Cap Income $1,372
GDP Growth 3.7%
Average CPI 10.08%
MonthlyApril
Trade Balance $-1.779 bln
Exports $2.130 bln
Imports $3.909 bln
WeeklyMay 20, 2013
Reserves $11.601 bln