London: British director and TV presenter Kristian Digby has been found dead at his home in London. Contactmusic.Com reports that the 32-year-old was found at his home in Stratford, London, on Monday morning and pronounced dead by paramedics.

London: Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has admitted that he will be deeply saddened once filming the last movie in the franchise ends.

Cairo: Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed a colossal statue head of the pharaoh whom DNA tests revealed last week was King Tutankhamun’s grandfather, the government said on Sunday.
The red granite head of King Amenhotep III, part of a larger 3,000 year-old statue, was discovered at the site of the pharaoh’s funerary temple in Luxor, Egypt’s culture ministry said in a statement.

London: A controversial re-enactment of King of Pop Michael Jackson’s death has been shown on US television.
The show Famous Crime Scene used a lookalike of the Thriller hitmaker for their 30-minute programme, which showed the doppelganger being given CPR by an actor playing Jackson’s alleged killer Dr Conrad Murray.
The most shocking scenes, however, featured the lookalike lying naked on an post mortem table, covered by nothing but a towel, and being pushed slowly into a mortuary drawer.

London: Prince Harry, who once said he didn’t have the “brain capacity” to fly an Apache, may soon join the league of expert pilots to fly the sophisticated combat helicopter, according to a media report.
Sources at the Army Air Corps headquarters in Middle Wallop, where the Prince is learning to fly, have said that Harry is being considered to pilot the demanding aircraft after doing well on his current training, the Sunday Mail reported.

Washington: Visitors to Pompeii will be able to experience a live dig in March in the ancient Roman town that was buried in Mount Vesuvius’’ catastrophic eruption in 79 AD.
According to a report in Discovery News, the site of the open-door excavation is the so-called House of the Chaste Lovers, a building that came to light in 1987, but which has always been closed to the public.

London: A bomb squad was called to singer Ozzy Osbourne’s book signing event after the cops caught a man with some handmade fireworks. The Black Sabbath rocker was signing copies of his autobiography when police officers spotted a man allegedly smoking marijuana at the event in a Barnes and Noble bookstore in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. The man tried to run away but was caught by the police.

Brussels: European Union data privacy regulators are telling Google Inc. to warn people before it sends cameras out into cities to take pictures for its Street View maps, adding to the company’s legal worries in Europe.
Google should shorten the time it keeps the original photos from one year to six months, regulators also said in a letter to the company obtained by the Associated Press on Thursday. Google was not immediately available for comment. Street View launched in the US in 2007 and now adds photos of real-life street scenes to Google’s maps of around 100 cities worldwide. To soothe privacy concerns, it uses special software to blur pictures of faces and car license plates.
Google has been slow to roll out the service in Europe after governments raised concerns that taking pictures of people in public places could break some EU rules on personal privacy. Greece told the company in 2009 to halt plans to snap the nation’s streets until more privacy safeguards are provided and in April, residents of one English village formed a human chain to stop a camera van.
Google has also bowed to German demands to erase the raw footage of faces, house numbers, license plates and individuals who have told authorities they do not want their information used in the service.
EU justice commissioner Viviane Reding said that Europe had “high standards for data protection” and that she expected that “all companies play according to the rules of the game.” The head of EU data protection agencies, Alex Turk, told Google’s data privacy chief Peter Fleischer in a letter dated February 11 that the company should always give advance notice on its website and in the local or national press before it takes pictures. It should take care to avoid taking pictures “of a sensitive nature and those containing intimate details not normally observable by a passer-by,” Turk said.
—AP

Vancouver: Missing US actor Andrew Koenig, who starred in the 1980s television comedy Growing Pains, killed himself, his distraught father said on Thursday after the police located his body in an isolated area of a park.
“Our son took his own life,” Walter Koenig, who portrayed Lieutenant Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek TV series, told reporters at a late afternoon news conference.
Andrew Koenig, 41, was last seen on February 14 when he left the Vancouver apartment of a friend he had been visiting, and he was reported missing four days later after his father, in Los Angeles, received a despondent letter from his son.
Koenig’s disappearance caused friends including actress Alyssa Milano, actor Kirk Cameron and comedian Sarah Silverman to post comments online or put out statements seeking information on his whereabouts.
On his father’s website, Koenig’s parents posted a long description of their son, including the fact that he had been suffering from clinical depression when he disappeared.     —Reuters

London: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was said to have shelled out on a “priceless” bed once owned by his idol Napoleon.
The 73-year-old, dubbed with title of a notorious womaniser, was said to have installed the four-poster bed, complete with canopy and bronze eagle heads, at his new house near Milan. But the billionaire media tycoon, who previously said his country only wants migrants if they were “pretty girls”, demanded it to be widened to accommodate a king-size mattress.
“Silvio is a very dear friend. I have known him for 25 years and met him when he came into my shop looking for a desk for his villa,” the Sun quoted antiques dealer Annamaria Quattrini as saying.
“For its symbolic value, I would say the most important piece I have ever sold him was a bed that belonged to Napoleon, naturally in the style of an emperor.
“It had a large canopy, bronze fittings and eagles on the four corners — it’s beautiful and I hope he has sweet dreams on it. But it caused us our first argument because he wanted it widened,” Quattrini added.
—ANI