Apple’s iPhone, the 8GB device will hit stores on November 9 in UK, priced at £269.

It will run on the O2 mobile phone network, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs told a press conference at the firm’s flagship UK store in London’s Regent Street.

Mr Jobs said: “It is a breakthrough phone. It is a very powerful phone and it is super easy to use. “It is the best iPod we have ever made.”

After the £269 upfront cost, customers will sign an 18-month contract with O2 on a tariff of either £35, £45 or £55 per month. The iPhone will be sold at some 1,300 O2, Apple and Carphone Warehouse stores.

Customers who switch to the O2 network to get the device will be able to keep their previous phone numbers, O2 said. Customers will get access to unlimited internet downloads as part of their monthly O2 tariff.

The iPhone’s internet browser function will be compatible with 7,500 Wi-Fi hot spots across the UK plus other areas where the internet can be accessed wirelessly.

Earlier this month Apple slashed the cost of the iPhone in the US from its launch price of 599 US dollars (£298) to 399 dollars (£198).

Asked why the device was more expensive in the UK, Mr Jobs said: “The majority is, of course, the VAT. The US price doesn’t include any sales tax and the UK price does. That is the majority of the difference.

Apple has sold more than one million iPhones in the US since its launch there on June 29. The device combines a touch-sensitive mobile phone handset with a built-in iPod media player and a wireless internet browser.

Britney Spears was hit hard thrice in one day:

1. Lost temporary custody of her children’s.

2. Her lawyer, Laura Wasser, has stopped representing her.

3. She was also ditched by her new management team, “The Firm”.
Britney Spears will lose temporary custody of her children after a court heard a declaration stating she has ‘issues of nudity and drug use’.

According to reports in the US, authorities will hand custody of 2-year-old Sean  Preston and 1-year-old Jayden James to their father, Kevin Federline, after obtaining a legal file.

In a second blow for the singer, her lawyer, Laura Wasser, has jumped the sinking ship and has reportedly stopped representing the star.

Bad news comes in threes and third for Brit is that she was also ditched by her new management team, “The Firm”.

The company issued a statement that read: ‘It saddens us to confirm media reports that we have terminated our professional relationship with Britney Spears. We have represented Britney for the past month.’ ‘We believe Britney is enormously talented, and has made a terrific record. But current circumstances have prevented us from properly doing our job. We wish Britney the best.’

A gigantic statue of a man swimming is unveiled on the bank of the River Thames in London – the fixture was commissioned by The Discovery Channel to advertise its newest reality show, “London Ink” and was be unveiled by the show’s star, Louis Molloy.

Mr Molloy is best known for being David Beckham’s personal tattooist, and is responsible for the famous ‘guardian angel’ tattoo on the footballer’s back.

The swimming man is 46 feet long by 10 feet high and made out of reinforced polystyrene, hand painted to resemble human flesh. He has a tattoo covering his back, which was designed by Mr Molloy and features a Koi Carp lying on a bed of traditional fish and chips and splattered with vinegar.

A week later, a similar statue will be installed on the concourse at Victoria Station, featuring a giant woman trying to squeeze into a photo booth. Her top rides up to reveal a tattoo of a pigeon.

The swimming man statues will remain in place for a few weeks before being moved to different locations across the UK.

Mr Molloy said: “The aim of the London Ink show is to make tattoos mainstream and change the stereotype of tattoos as only being for criminals and sailors. The huge statue is sure to be a major draw for tourists and Londoners, and get tattooing out in the mainstream.”

A spokeswoman for The Discovery Channel said: “We created these because we want people to interact with them. We want people to get out their camera phones and take pictures of them, and of their friends with them. We want to create a real stir.”

I will try my best to get a picture with this swimming man, possibly this weekend.

Here’s something which I couldn’t stop laughing at. I mean its little weird and same time makes U laugh.

Gerrit Six, a teacher and former journalist posted an ad on ebay.be selling a very unusal item: ‘For Sale: Belgium, a Kingdom in three parts … free premium: the king and his court (costs not included).’ The ad was posted in protest at his country’s political crisis.

‘I wanted to attract attention,’ ‘You almost have to throw a rock through a window to get attention for Belgium.’ said Gerrit Six,

Gerrit, placed the advertisement on Saturday, offering free delivery, but pointing out that the country was coming second-hand and that potential buyers would have to take on over £153 billion (€220 billion) in national debt.

Like many of Belgium’s 10 million citizens, Six is exasperated that the power struggle between the country’s French-speaking and Dutch-speaking political parties has left Belgium in political limbo since June 10 elections. Demands for more autonomy from the Dutch-speaking Flemish are resisted by the French-speaking Walloons, making it impossible to form a government coalition and triggering concern the kingdom is on the verge of a break-up.

Six decided to vent his frustration through the Internet ad.

‘My proposal was to make it clear that Belgium was valuable, it’s a masterpiece and we have to keep it,’ he told Associated Press Television News.

‘It’s my country and I’m taking care of it, and with me are millions of Belgians.’

EBay was happy to take Gerrit’s advertisement.

‘It was a really fun listing made by a Belgian,’ Peter Burin, PR manager of eBay Belgium said. ‘This person, in a very funny way, reminded the Belgians what a great country Belgium actually is and it would be a shame to sell it.’

However, the company decided to pull the ad Tuesday after receiving a bid of €10 million (£6.9 million)

‘We decided to take it down, just to avoid confusion,’ he told APTN.

If colour has made your hair rough and dry and you want to know, what can you do to bring the shine back? And that how long one should wait before going for a henna treatment, and re-colouring the hair?

Here’s the answer:
Give your hair a hot oil treatment with hot towel wraps, twice a week.
After every shampoo, apply a creamy conditioner on the ends of your hair.
Leave it on for two minutes, and rinse.
Opt for a henna treatment only when the chemical colorant wears off completely.
Similarly, if you wish to re-colour your hair, wait for the henna colour to wear off. The two colours don’t mix.

By: Shahnaz Husain

Sienna Miller the 25-year-old actress is starring in the movie “Hippie Hippie Shake”, playing a free-loving flower child alongside American-born actress Margo Stilley and Cillian Murphy.

With filming already under way, Miss Miller has had to grow her hair long and dye it from blonde to brunette. Directors of the film have also asked her to cut down on her exercise regime to develop a more rounded physique, in keeping with the less gym-honed women of the sixties era.

The movie, to be released next year, is based on the hedonistic memoirs of the Australian journalist Richard Neville.