An Indian man has "married" a female dog, hoping the move will help atone for stoning two other dogs to death.
P Selvakumar, 33, said he had been cursed since the killings, suffering paralysis and a loss of hearing.
The wedding took place at a Hindu temple in Tamil Nadu state. The "bride" wore an orange sari with a flower garland and was fed a bun to celebrate.
Superstitious people in rural India sometimes organise weddings to animals in the hope of warding off curses.
'Tried every cure'
Crowds cheered the newly-weds at the end of the ceremony in Sivaganga district, about 50km (30 miles) east of the city of Madurai.
The "bride", who is called Selvi, was led to the temple in Manamudurai wearing a sari before vows were exchanged in a traditional Hindu ceremony.
A relative of the groom who attended the wedding said he hoped Mr Selvakumar would now be cured.
"Fifteen years back Selvakumar was physically fit. But, once he attacked a pair of dogs and thereafter Kumar could not move his limbs freely," the relative, Ramu, told the BBC.
"He tried every cure for his ailment but could not be rid of his disability.
"On the advice of an astrologer and others, he decided to marry a bitch to get cured. Then we arranged Selvakumar's marriage with a bitch."
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Two teens have been charged with killing the 7-year-old sister of one of them by beating her with imitations of moves from the "Mortal Kombat" video game, prosecutors said.
Lamar Roberts, 17, and Heather Trujillo, 16, were charged as adults on one count each of felony child abuse causing death, state prosecutor Robert Miller said in court documents released Wednesday and filed a day earlier.
According to a police affidavit, the teens were baby-sitting Trujillo's half-sister, Zoe Garcia, on December 6 while the girl's mother was at work.
Zoe lost consciousness and stopped breathing after the teens hit, kicked and body-slammed her, imitating moves used in the video game, the document said.
Trujillo and Roberts tried reviving the girl by putting her under running water and attempting CPR before they called her mother and 911, the affidavits stated. The girl died at a hospital.
An autopsy showed she had a broken wrist, more than 20 bruises, swelling of the brain, and bleeding in her neck muscles and under her spine, the affidavits said.
Sheriff's spokeswoman Margie Martinez said late Wednesday that she did not know whether either teen had an attorney. The teens were being held at the Weld County jail but were not permitted to accept phone calls, Martinez said.
Roberts said he was downstairs playing video games while the sisters wrestled upstairs, police said. But a witness quoted in the affidavit said Roberts told her he had kicked the girl.
The witness told police that Roberts said Zoe had told them to stop wrestling. According to the affidavit, when the witness asked why they didn't stop, he responded, "I don't know; I was drunk."
If convicted, the teens could be sentenced to 48 years in prison.
Jessica Alba is pregnant with boyfriend Cash Warren's child, her rep tells PEOPLE exclusively.
"I can confirm that Jessica and Cash are expecting a baby in late spring, early summer," says rep Brad Cafarelli.
Alba, 26, has dated Warren, 28, since the fall of 2004 after they met on the set of The Fantastic Four, on which Warren was a director's assistant.
The couple have been seen being affectionate together in Los Angeles in recent days, shopping for mattresses last Saturday and attending a Lakers game, where they were spotted kissing Sunday.
Alba has also starred in Sin City and the recent Awake. Her upcoming films are The Eye and The Love Guru.
Before the pregnancy announcement, she said she was in talks to make her Broadway premiere this summer in a revival of playwright David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow.
You are a power user. You have the fastest DSL link available in your area- 7Mbs downstream for $80 per month. It is a great deal, but you want faster. You call your DSL provider and tell them you want a faster link, but 7Mbs is the fastest DSL you can get. The next step up is a bonded T3 which offers 8Mbs for $2200 per month. With TeePipe, you could just order a second 7Mbs DSL line and combine it with the first to create a virtual 14Mbs link for only $160 per month.
But it gets better. Instead of ordering a second DSL line, you might want to consider ordering a cable modem link. You would still use TeePipe to combine the DSL connection with the cable connection and again have super-fast browsing at a reasonable price. But now if your DSL line ever goes down (and they do), you would still be able to use the cable link. And vice versa. TeePipe automatically uses whatever bandwidth is available, so the only impact an outage has on you is that your peak speed is reduced. You keep on surfing.
Why buy one big and expensive pipe when you can have lots of little ones?
For anyone that cares about DBZ, there's supposedly a live-action movie coming out next year. There was a topic about this before but it hasn't been posted in for years so...
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20th Century Fox has set Justin Chatwin (The Invisible, War of the Worlds) to play Goku and James Marsters ("Smallville," "Angel," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") as the villain Piccolo in Dragon Ball Z.
In the big screen adaptation, Goku is a powerful warrior who protects the Earth from an endless stream of rogues bent on dominating the universe and controlling the mystical objects from which the film takes its name.
Actor/writer/director Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle) is producing. Final Destination helmer James Wong will direct from a script he wrote. Ben Ramsey wrote an earlier draft.
The story is based on Akira Toriyama's popular manga that has spawned graphic novels, a long-running TV series and more than 25 video games. The Jump Comics division of Tokyo-based Shueisha published the "Dragon Ball" manga.
With shooting scheduled to begin later this month, Fox will bow the sci-fi/adventure worldwide Aug. 15. Chatwin has already begun training with 87Eleven, the stunt performance company behind the action sequences in The Matrix, The Bourne Supremacy,Mr. & Mrs. Smith and 300.
Even though Sony PlayStation 2 game console has become the most successful game console ever with 120 million units sold, its era is coming to the end, as sales of the entertainment device have been declining in the recent months, some analysts believe. Considering weak adoption of the PlayStation 3, the waterfall of the PS2 sales may mean that Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. will find itself behind Nintendo and Microsoft.
“PlayStation 2 software sales fell 47% year-over-year to $85 million, representing a deceleration from the 33% year-over-year decline [in September, 2007]. While this substantial decline was inevitable, it is currently unclear whether the drop reflects consumer transition to next-gen software or weak spending patterns amongst the low-end consumer. Needless to say, with tougher comps ahead for PS2 software sales, we think that the PS2 may finally be on its way out of the industry for good,” said Deutsche Bank analyst Jeetil Patel, reports GameDailyBiz web-site.
Even though total available market of non-portable game consoles in the U.S. has been increasing in the most recent three months, sales of PlayStation 2 hardware has been declining. Even though the popularity of SCEI’s PS3 is weak, it is considerably higher than half a year ago, therefore, sales of PlayStation 2 might suffer because of that. Still, considering the fact that the PS2 retails for $129, whereas PS3 cost starting from $499, hence, the competition of the consoles from Sony is doubtful. On the other hand, popularity of Nintendo Wii at $249 price-point has been skyrocketing, whereas adoption of Microsoft Xbox 360 at $299 and $279 has been growing slowly, but surely.
Sony PlayStation 2 was the most popular game console in the USA, according to data by NPD group. If the recent price-cut on the PlayStation 3 does not drive sales of the latest game console by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. upwards, Sony will find itself on the third place in the game console world following Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox 360.
In September gamers bought 1.363 million game consoles in the U.S., according to NPD, of which there were 215 thousand of PlayStation 2 and 119.4 thousand of PlayStation 3. Meanwhile, Nintendo sold through 501 thousand of Wii, whereas Microsoft Xbox 360 was bought by 527.8 thousand of gamers in the USA.
Australian is getting a special version of Transformers where the DVD case transforms into Optimus Prime. No indication if it will come out in the US but I would be surprised if it did. For whatever reason, US companies tend to have a low opinion on what US consumers will or will not like. The special case can be ordered from EXYDVD.com. Be warned, DVDs tend to be region locked (4 for UA, 1 for US, think 3 for EU) so unless you have an unlocked DVD player (usually requires hacking) then it will not play on DVD players in US or elsewhere so might want to consider that before ordering.
Special Features: - Limited Edition "Transforming" Packaging with Outer Plastic O-Ring Sleeve - Deleted Scenes - Audio Commentary by Director Michael Bay - 4 Featurettes - 2 In-Depth Making of Documentaries - Interactive Content - Easter Eggs
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