Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolley were not available for the Golden Globes Award Ceremony, that’s why Jennifer Lopez was contacted by the organizers.


There’s been mounting speculation in industry circles that the Oscars are trying to make the Golden Globes increasingly insignificant.

According to the sources closed to the organizers “J.Lo wasn’t the first choice,” says a source close to the planning.

“They were hoping that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie would open the show; it looked good, then all of a sudden, Brad and Angie weren’t interested anymore. J.Lo was happy to do it, and there you go.”

According to the new reports, supermodel Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady are engaged now. Bundchen would confirm her engagement to quarterback Tom Brady in days, ending weeks of speculation, the reports said.


The couple has been dating since Brady split from actress Bridget Moynahan in 2006, with whom he shares a 16-month-old son. Bundchen has previously dated actor Leonardo DiCaprio.

People.com has published a report regarding this that Brady, 31, proposed to 28-year-old Bundchen with a diamond solitaire on Friday, informing friends and family over the weekend.

An official announcement and preliminary wedding details are reportedly being planned by Bundchen and her closest friends this week.

Her agent has refused to confirm or deny the reports, saying, “We don’t comment on our clients’ private lives.”

Amy Winehouse’s husband has deiced to file for divorce, a lawyer of the jailed husband of the actress has confirmed the report.


Winehouse and Fielder-Civil married in Miami in May 2007, but he was arrested six months later over an assault. Later in July he was sentenced to 27 months in jail for beating up a bar manager and then offering him a bribe to keep quiet about it.

Attorney Henri Brandman said he had been instructed by Blake Fielder-Civil “to commence divorce proceedings on the grounds of Amy’s adultery.”

Winehouse’s spokesman did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

Winehouse has been linked by tabloid newspapers to other men and recently has been photographed on holiday in the Caribbean with an alleged new beau, Josh Bowman.

MOSCOW: Gas supplies to European Union countries came at halt once again, at the same time fresh talks between Russia and European Union countries are on in Moscow. Russia has blamed US for the present situation.


Before this, Russia was set to resume gas supply to the European countries. It would ease a crisis that has hit a swathe of countries and highlighted their dependence on Moscow.

The announcement came after Russia, Ukraine and the EU signed an agreement on monitoring the movement of gas through the transit network, the workings of which are notorious for being untransparent and corrupt.

EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs had said that “it will take some time to reach our consumers, between 24 and 40 hours,” while other EU officials have said it might take as much as three days.

Russia says all such gas must be paid for by Kiev as part of its transit contract with Moscow.

Stanford University is going to start a new energy institute soon where scholars can study everything from solar cells to energy markets and economics. The university has received $100 million to create the institute.


The donations came from three alumni who said they were motivated by the desire to protect the environment from greenhouse gases.

The institute will expand Stanford’s role in energy research and national energy policy. It will consolidate Stanford’s existing energy-focused efforts onto one site — and allow the hiring of new faculty.

The new institute will be directed by Lynn Orr, professor of energy resources engineering and director of Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project. He plans to pull together 136 faculty members in 21 departments to create interdisciplinary projects.

MOSCOW: Russia is set to resume gas supply to the European countries. It would ease a crisis that has hit a swathe of countries and highlighted their dependence on Moscow.


The announcement came after Russia, Ukraine and the EU signed an agreement on monitoring the movement of gas through the transit network, the workings of which are notorious for being untransparent and corrupt.

EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs said that “it will take some time to reach our consumers, between 24 and 40 hours,” while other EU officials have said it might take as much as three days.

Russia says all such gas must be paid for by Kiev as part of its transit contract with Moscow.

KIEV: A gas talk is expected between Ukraine and Russia soon to resolve the crisis in the European countries.


“The president awaits talks between Prime Minister Tymoshenko and Russian Prime Minister Putin, during which all political problems will be removed,” his spokeswoman of the Ukraine government told reporters on Monday.

In the mean time, Russia’s gas export company Gazprom says Ukraine has signed a fresh copy of a gas transit monitoring agreement, without any added conditions.

Monday’s signing should allow the resumption of gas supplies to much of Europe, shut down because of a contractual dispute between the two countries.