As the official announcement of the engagement between Prince William and Kate Middleton was made from the British authorities, there were messages pouring in from all corners to congratulate the couple on their engagement. Even Prince Charles was reportedly extremely happy at a Royal wedding being on the cards.

It was revealed that Prince William had given his mother Princess Diana’s ring to his fiancé as the official ring of commitment and it sat pretty on Kate’s delicate fingers. The ring is a dark blue sapphire and bears a lot of significance for the Royal family.

Prince William and Kate had got engaged earlier this year while they were on a holiday in Kenya in Africa. Their wedding, which is to be sometime during the spring or the summer of 2011 is an event which everyone is now looking forward to.

Reports are that there are already speculations on the type of wedding gown Kate will be wearing on the ‘D’ day. Going by the tabloids, she might opt for a high necked gown with a straight cut, with only hand embroidered patterns and lace. However, others are of the view that it just might be a very modern take on the bridal gown and will have very little traditional touch in it.

Well, considering the fact that this wedding is going to usher in a very happy Royal affair after so many years, it just doesn’t matter what the bride to be shall wear or the groom might wear- what ultimately matters is that the two people concerned that is Prince William and Kate Middleton are happy. So just wait for the Royal wedding to happen and catch the latest on it right here!

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Former three-time world surfing champion Andy Irons has died.Phil Irons, the father of the 32-year-old surfer, confirmed his son’s death Tuesday. The cause of death was not immediately known.

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The Assocation of Surfing Professionals (ASP) said Irons "had reportedly been battling with dengue fever, a viral disease." Irons won three consecutive world titles from 2002 to 2004.

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Irons missed his Round 1 and 2 heats at the Rip Curl Search Puerto Rico stop on the ASP Men’s World Tour Saturday due to illness and was traveling back home to Hawaii when he passed away. He was 32.

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Disney star Demi Lovato has bailed on an international concert tour with the Jonas Brothers — and has checked into a treatment center to seek help for "emotional and physical issues" … TMZ has confirmed through the singer’s rep.

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The 18-year-old pulled out of a high-profile world tour supporting fellow Disney stars The Jonas Brothers to seek treatment over the weekend.

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Demi Lovato is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is best known for her roles as Mitchie Torres in the Camp Rock movies and as Sonny Munroe in Sonny With a Chance. Lovato starred in the 2009 movie Princess Protection Program. Before Disney, she had one of the roles on Barney & Friends.
In 2010, Lovato began dating Joe Jonas, whom she first met while filming Camp Rock in 2007. On May 24, 2010, Lovato confirmed via her official Twitter that she and Jonas were no longer together.

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The Marine Corps Marathon Results are now in for the 2010 race which was the 35th annual. The winner of the marathon was Jacob Bradosky from Ohio, who finished the race with a time of 2:23:30. Ronald Kurui from Maryland finished only 11 seconds behind Bradosky for 2nd place.

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The women’s race was not as close. Janet Cherbon of Georgia led from the start and won in an impressive 2:42:32.

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The Marine Corps Marathon was taken place between several runners who took the challenge of completing the 26.2 miles marathon race and gain the victory against their name. Out of many thousands of runners only 21,856 runners successfully completed the marathon and reached the finishing line. Read more here.

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The social networking sites have become a rage and the games that one plays in it has been taken quite a lot of time. Some has become so obsessed with the online farming and building projects that they are losing the sense of the real world. Last January a mom from Northern Florida just murdered her infant son because of the disturbance he caused while the mom was playing FarmVille in Facebook.

Alexandra V. Tobias has been charged with murder of her 14 month old son named Dylan Lee Edmondson. The 22year old mom has been charged with second degree murder and might just face 25 to 50 years behind the pars according to the prosecutors.

On Wednesday, Tobias pleaded guilty of the charges and stated that she got angry when her son won’t stop crying while she was playing FarmVille. She shook him hard and while doing that the baby’s head might have hit the computer and soon after that he stopped breathing.

When Tobias made the 911 call she told that her dog has knocked the baby off the couch and he stopped breathing, later on she accepted her crime to an inmate and has stated her mother’s death as acted as a stressor.

This is not the first time an unwanted or criminal incident has happened due to Facebook or a social networking site. While the microblogging and the networking is in the raise so are the crimes related to it.

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The gay right activists celebrated the injunction on the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ ruling after Judge Virginia Phillips called it unconstitutional on and later on in Oct’ 12 she put an injunction on the 17year old ruling. In the DADT measure the people serving the military would not divulge about their sexual orientation, if they did and the authorities found out that they were homosexuals, the military recruits would be discharged.

While Judge Phillips took up the suit filed by Log Cabin Republicans six years ago and called the DADT unconstitutional and from Oct’ 12 the Pentagon allowed recruiting of the homosexuals, on Wednesday the Justice Department filed a suit asking for the stay order of the DADT.

In the 9^th US Court of Appeals the three-judge panel granted the stay but didn’t issue any reason but stated that it is giving the court the time to pursue the issue fully and present it. At the moment though the cases regarding the homosexuals have been suspended by the Pentagon but it is unlikely with this new stay order the authorities will recruit any more homosexuals at the moment.

President Obama wants to repeal the DADT ruling but the Obama administration went for a stay order so that the Defense Department can study and see how the repeal of the ruling will affect the system. (ENSNN)

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If Facebook and Microsoft can have their way they would soon be putting Google on its back-foot as the social networking site and the computer giants have joined hand to put the Microsoft’s Bing search part of the Facebook. This search experience would be different from that of one familiar with the Google search.

The new Bing Search: this new search system will enable the user to have a personalized search result, as the search result will mark the list of the friends of the user who have “liked” the result via Facebook and other sites that use the similar “like” tags. The search name would not only bring in the result but also under the Facebook category it will include the Facebook profile of the search result.

Reason for revamped Bing Search: Most might have thought that Microsoft has spearheaded this venture with Facebook, but it is actually the other way round. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook has made the tie up to stall the relentless attempts made by Google to get a better foothold on the social networking domain.

Till now Google has failed to make much of an impact and Facebook has taken away the market created by Orkut, so the search giants are now more than eager to get their footing back. Google’s senior user-experience designer Paul Adams has already made a presentation of the flaws that Facebook have and Google would now work on that to develop something which might hit the world within few months and even may be within weeks.

This has raised the concern bell of Zuckerberg, so he is trying to get as much force and partnership as possible to prevent this possible onslaught made by Google. The new Bing search will be in effect from Wednesday. (ENSNN)

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Ashley Anderson might have sent you an e-mail and has told you to open the attachment she has sent you and claims that she knows you. But do not open the attachment that refers to Ashley Anderson as she is a virus that is ready to cause your computer a massive harm. So learn it from here exactly who or what Ashley Anderson is.

Ashley is harming the computer drives when the attachment is opened, exactly the extent of the damage the virus is causing is not yet known but most experts’ say that it is like Trojan horse virus, which copies the files of the computer as well as corrupts the existing files. So if you get an e-mail from Ashley Anderson delete it immediately.

If one has already opened the attachment send by Ashley Anderson immediately contact a professional who can help you to get rid of the virus from the computer system or your data might be facing a huge risk of getting corrupted. Few weeks back the social networking and the microblogging sites were infected by different viruses and it was not known exactly to what extent they caused the damage.

Once again it is not known from where this Ashley Anderson originated from but it is capable of causing some serious harm, so be careful and once again it is time for VIRUS ALERT. (ENSNN)

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Few nations are concerned over the security threats that the BlackBerry poses as the data are routed abroad. The countries like India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates feel that since the data the users of BlackBerry provided or get are via servers located on internationally territories and route via overseas it can be intercepted by others and can violate the nation’s security system.

India wants the data that are processed or used by the Indian BlackBerry users to be accessible by the law enforcement and intelligence department from the Research In Motion Ltd the makers of BlackBerry. Unless RIM agrees to do that India is going to put a ban on the Smartphone. The ban was to be enforced from Aug 31 but now they have given 60 days more to RIM to conduct the research on how feasible India’s demand of data accessibility is.

Like India, Indonesia too is concerned about foreign countries intercepting the country’s data. Hence Indonesia wants to have a RIM server in its country so the data is not routed to offshore.

Both Lebanon and Saudi Arabia are in the process of reviewing the security threat that BlackBerry might pose. Saudi Arabia has already stopped the BlackBerry service across the kingdom but it is not clear if this ban will be permanent and if not for how long it will be in effect. UAE too is starting to put on a ban on the BlackBerry’s e-mail, Web browsing and instant messaging from Monday, but on Friday some kind of deal was made, however, details about it were not made public yet.

Will this likely ban or threat of doing it affect BlackBerry and its popularity in these nations? (ENSNN)

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Perturbed Hindus are asking for immediate termination of New Zealand TV presenter and charging him with racism and xenophobia for reportedly ridiculing Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and New Zealand Governor-General Sir Anand Satyanand.

Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that reported making repeated fun of Sheila Dikshit’s last name was plain bigotry and was not acceptable. There was nothing to be laughed at “Dikshit” as it was a well-meaning word in Hinduism, which simply meant “initiated”.

Governor-General Sir Anand Satyanand, personal representative of New Zealand’s Head of State Queen Elizabeth II of New Zealand, was born and raised in Auckland, attending Richmond Road School in Ponsonby, and Sacred Heart College in Glen Innes. He had been a Judge in a number of courts in the Auckland area, a Parliamentary Ombudsman and was awarded the New Zealand Commemoration Medal and made a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for public services. How much more “proper and authentic” New Zealander one could be as reportedly questioned by presenter Paul Henry, asked Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism.

An official website media release dated October five quoted TVNZ CEO Rick Ellis as saying that Henry “does a magnificent job” and “is one of New Zealand’s best broadcasters” and “speaks his mind and that is what many New Zealanders like about him”. It seemed like the company was glorifying this presenter instead of being ashamed of his actions, Rajan Zed argued.

Zed stressed that freedom of speech never meant that one ridicule others for no other reason than their ethnicity. It seemed like a deliberate attempt to humiliate Hindus/minorities.

New Zealand Parliament refused to consider Zed’s request in 2008 to amend its prayer procedure/structure for making it more inclusive and universal. New Zealand was now a multicultural country where religion encompassed more than one tradition, and it included Anglicans, Catholics, Presbyterians, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Spiritualists, etc., besides many with no religious affiliation and should be more accepting and welcoming, Rajan Zed pointed out.

The commentator Henry is reportedly a breakfast show host at state-owned channel TVNZ, which claims to be New Zealand’s leading television and digital media company “designed to foster a sense of national culture and identity” and its role is defined as “to reflect and explore what it means to be a New Zealander”. Sir John Anderson is Chairman of TVNZ Board.

New Zealand, a geographically isolated country in southwestern Pacific Ocean of the size of Colorado, is one of least crowded countries (population around 4.3 million) with beautiful landscape, which includes fjord-scarred shores, snowy peaks, and sheep dotted pastures. Food, beverages and tobacco are its largest exports. John Key is the Prime Minister.

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