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Daniela Hantuchova

Daniela Hantuchova is a smart Slovakian woman: fluent in four languages, learning a fifth - Italian - the daughter of a computer science professor and a toxicologist and the world's No.9 tennis player.

She is also exceedingly thin, having lost considerable weight in the 12 months since last year's Wimbledon, at which she was often compared - favourably - to Anna Kournikova.

For Hantuchova's 180-centimetre frame, the Australia Nutrition Foundation's healthy-weight range begins at 65 kilograms. She has said she is now significantly below her official tour playing weight of 55.5kg.

Wimbledon, and women's tennis overall, is often more about looks, body image and marketability than sport, but this year's fascination has shifted from the size of a player's backside and Venus Williams's new corset-style white dress to that of thinness.

Hantuchova's low body-fat levels are the talk of the town. She has made no secret of her love for modelling and in between practising she can be seen showing off designer clothes. Her coach has gone as far as to suggest it is her desire to be part of the fashion of thinness that has affected her.

But is her bony figure, while considered by some ideal for the catwalk, appropriate to play a vigorous sport? Hantuchova says it is a nice problem to have, for she can eat anything she likes. It is just that she has been training too hard for Wimbledon, she says. She rejects suggestions that she suffers from anorexia or an eating disorder and notes dryly: "I have burned off more calories than I have taken in, I have to eat a bit more."

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The Kiss

Gere faces Indian arrest warrant

Photographs of the embrace made the front pages in India

An Indian court has issued an arrest warrant for Hollywood actor Richard Gere after he kissed Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty in public.

Gere, 57, kissed Shetty, 31, several times on the cheek at an Aids awareness event in New Delhi earlier this month.

Local resident Poonam Chand Bhandari filed a complaint and Judge Dinesh Gupta called it "an obscene act".

It was not immediately clear how the warrant could affect Gere, who is a frequent visitor to India.

Shetty, who found fame outside India as the winner of Celebrity Big Brother in the UK, has also been asked to appear before the court.

Photographs of the clinch were splashed across front pages of newspapers in India.

Public displays of affection are still largely taboo in India, and protestors in Mumbai (Bombay) set fire to effigies of Gere following the incident.

Dance scene

Shetty has defended Gere saying that it was all done "in good humour".

"He especially told me to tell the media that he didn't want to hurt any Indian sensibilities," she said.

She said Gere had only been re-enacting a scene from his film Shall We Dance.

Under Indian law, a person convicted of public obscenity faces up to three months in prison, a fine or both.

Gere, star of films such as Chicago and Pretty Woman, is a Buddhist and travels to India frequently to visit the Dalai Lama, who lives in exile in the north of the country.

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Shaha Riza, The New Wolfette

Ms Riza had been a high-ranking communications employee at the bank working in the Middle East section.

When Mr Wolfowitz took over at the bank in mid-2005, Ms Riza - then a World Bank employee for eight years - was transferred to work for the US state department, to avoid any conflict of interest.

But rapid rises in her tax-free World Bank salary to about $193,000 - more than the $186,000 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice receives before tax - have aroused ire among other bank employees.

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24. You don't have to wash a beer before it tastes good
25. If you change beers you don't have to pay alimony

April Fools!

Yeah, I do have a checkered past. A trail of destruction and a posse of pursuers...

I've migrated from Thug, to Recidivist. Now I'm Boris. Different names, same attitude. Hafta keep ahead of the bloodhounds tailing me.

You gotta fucking problem with that?