Robert Pattinson has gone on a shopping spree for Kristen Stewart’s Christmas presents. The British actor visited retro shop TINI in Los Angeles recently, where he and a pal stocked up on a stack of gifts for his Twilight Saga co-star and girlfriend Kristen.

Charlize Theron is “desperate” for some sleep, because her life is so busy. The 38-year-old actress, who has three movies, Young Adult, Snow White and The Huntsman and Prometheus, set for release in the coming months, loves using her time off work to rest, as well as fitting in entertaining friends and seeing the world.

The Gujarat high court on Friday directed the Union of India to approach the International Court of Justice within two months for the release of 54 1971 prisoners of war (PoWs) languishing in Pakistani jails.

The National Investigation Agency, which is probing the September 7 Delhi high court blast, has now received help from unexpected quarters, it’s the cold weather conditions in Kashmir. Sources said the investigating agency has managed to get fresh leads revealing that the prime suspect in the case, Junaid Akram Malik, has been forced to move out of his hideout in the higher mountainous region of Kishtwar in wake of the heavy snowfall and harsh weather conditions in the region.

At a time when chief minister Mamata Banerjee is repeatedly urging the doctors and nurses to serve the patients with a human face, a patient died at the SSKM Hospital in Kolkata on Friday after his penis was allegedly nibbled by rats.

The days of “courtesy politics” between the Mamata Banerjee-government and the Opposition Left Front seems to be over after the government completed 200 days in the office. One allegation after another levelled by the state government against the Left Front, particularly the CPI(M), during the winter session of the Assembly, which concluded on Friday soured the relations.

History was created on Friday when 555 Odissi dancers, a large number of them belonging to foreign countries, performed in unison at Kalinga stadium here in the city, to enter their names in the Guinness Book of World Records.

In what has created sensation in the industrial sector of Assam, the police on Friday recovered bullet-ridden bodies of two senior executives working in private sector and public sector who were suspected to have been abducted by Karbi rebels for ransom.

Udaipur: A restaurant owner in Rajasthan’s Udaipur city was sent to judicial custody by a court Thursday, a day after he was arrested on charges of attempting to rape a 34-year-old French tourist, off

The Nanavati Commission has indicated it may submit its final report with regard to the 2002 post-Godhra riots by the end of March 2012, the state government told the Gujarat high court on Thursday.