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NO KIDDING
London: They chase each other at high speed, wielding axes and hammers. But the famous cartoon duo of Tom and Jerry are in trouble in Britain for smoking on screen.
Media regulator Ofcom received a complaint from a viewer who took offence at two episodes involving smoking.
In one, Texas Tom, the hapless cat Tom tries to impress a feline female by rolling a cigarette, lighting it and smoking it with one hand.
In the other, Tennis Chumps, Tom's opponent in a match smokes a large cigar.
In a bulletin posted online, Ofcom noted "concerns that smoking on television may normalize smoking," and said that the Turner company, licensee for Boomerang which aired the cartoons, had agreed to edit some smoking scenes out of Tom and Jerry.
"The licensee has proposed editing any scenes or references in the series where smoking appeared to be condoned, acceptable, glamorized or where it might encourage imitation," Ofcom said, adding that Texas Tom was one such example.
But it would not cut all smoking scenes, it added.
Ofcom said it recognized smoking was more generally accepted when cartoons were produced in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, but noted that the threshold for including such scenes when the audience is predominately young should be high.

Porn star offers sex@$1, virtually

Jenna Jameson, the first porn star to be immortalised by wax museum Madame Tussauds, has now brought forth her new venture – a new virtual reality sex game.
According to TMZ.com, people visiting the website VirtuallyJenna, can choose not only the locations, toys, positions, but also partners and acts, all for the price of $29.95 a month.
As if that were not enough, Jameson and the other virtual models also make actual love sounds such as gagging, slurping and yum noises while performing their acts.
As for all those still not sure whether or not they want to be pleasured for an entire month, well all they need to do is dish out $9.95 for a three-day trial while they make up their minds.

WANNA TRY?????

Lebanon digs mass grave for war dead

Lebanon digs mass grave for war dead


As a truce held in South Lebanon on Wednesday, workers dug a temporary mass grave for more than 100 people killed during Israel's war with Hizbollah.

Hospital officials in the southern city of Tyre said up to 126 bodies would be buried together near an army barracks unless relatives claimed them. Seventy-two corpses were buried there on July 21 to clear overflowing hospital morgues.

Indian I Day celebration

Indian PM Manmahan Singh(Left) delivering his I-Day speech in the rampart of Red Fort, New Delhi yesterday. students forming the tricolour national flag of India.

Manmohan Singh asks Pak to end cross-border terror
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked Pakistan on Tuesday to take concrete steps to end cross-border terrorism to enable the peace initiatives to succeed.
"We have taken several initiatives, to be successful, these iniatives need an atmosphere of peace. It is obvious that unless Pakistan takes concrete steps to implement the solemn assurances it has given to prevent cross-border terrorism against India from any territory within its control, public opinion in India, which has supported the peace process, will be undermined," he said

BLAST IN LANKA

BLAST IN LANKA
Seven people were killed and 17 others reported injured when two powerful Claymore fragmentation mines hit a Pakistan embassy convoy in the Sri Lankan capital near President Mahinda Rajapakse's official residence.The explosion took place near the Liberty Plaza roundabout, close to the first barrier leading to the President's Temple Trees residence, police said.Four military personnel and three civilians were killed in the blast, which bomb squad officials said was caused by a fragmentation mine inside a three wheeler taxi

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