The ‘living shrine’ Indian woman who cries tears of blood

October 13th, 2009 LONDON - A single jab can now prevent people from losing their vision, thanks to researchers at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, who have developed a new method to inject drug into the blood by weakening the otherwise impermeable blood-retina barrier. The blood-retina barrier normally prevents molecules in the blood from reaching the retina.

September 17th, 2009 LONDON - Some Indian families living in a housing estate in Portadown, a town in Britain's Northern Ireland province, have said they want to leave the area after racist attacks last week, according to reports. The BBC said windows were smashed at two houses in the Killicomaine estate Sep 3 in what police said was a race hate crime.

August 5th, 2009 LONDON - Britain's Sarah Outen has become become the first woman to row solo across the Indian Ocean. She took nearly six months to achieve this feat.

August 3rd, 2009 LONDON — British police say they have charged a 16-year-old boy with assault after he allegedly splashed bleach on a woman who had asked him to be quiet during a movie. The woman confronted a group of teenagers at a late July screening of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" in Leeds, about 190 miles (300 kilometers) north of London.

July 29th, 2009 LONDON - An Australian woman was trapped in her toilet for a week before being rescued. The 67-year-old woman reportedly spent a week wedged between her toilet door and the bowl at her house in the eastern city of Ipswich, the Daily Express reports.

June 10th, 2009 LONDON - A 36-year-old English woman, whose six children belong to four different men, has now fled with her son's 18-year-old best pal. Debbie Mallinson is said to have moved in with baby-faced Adam Caban in Falmouth, Cornwall.

May 16th, 2009 LONDON - Bianca Gascoigne, the estranged step-daughter of former England football great Paul Gascoigne, has been warned that she is a "borderline alcoholic" in danger of ending up like the latter. The 22-year-old tearaway, burst into tears when the medics also revealed drink had left her with the brain of a 64-year-old.

May 10th, 2009 LONDON - Michael Phelps has had his fantasies with a pair of strippers, boasted about taking dope and cries a lot after getting drunk - these are some of his secrets spilt by a lapdancer. Theresa White claimed the Olympic swimming star is far from the all-American boy everyone thinks he is.

April 6th, 2009 LONDON - Sir Michael Caine's wife Shakira was badly shaken during a preview screening of his latest film Is There Anybody There? Watching Caine playing a grumpy old man sinking into dementia, Shakira, 62, couldn't control her emotions and burst into floods of tears. Sir Michael, 76, said that he had to comfort her afterwards.

March 28th, 2009 LONDON - Socialite heiress Paris Hilton was in tears as she watched her boyfriend Doug Reinhardt being bashed up in a Miami club. Contactmusic.com reports that the brawl took place after a DJ took offence to Hilton asking him to change the techno music he was playing at the posh Fontainebleau Hotel nightclub.

March 27th, 2009 LONDON - R and B singer Akon debuted a song at the United Nations in New York to commemorate the victims of the slave trade, past and present. He launched "Blood Into Gold" on Wednesday - the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery.

March 16th, 2009 LONDON - Madonna is reportedly trying to keep age from hitting her with a rigorous workout that often leaves her crying in pain. The Queen of Pop was said to be pushing herself to the limit with an eight-to-10-hour routine to remain fit for her year-long Sticky and Sweet tour.

February 5th, 2009 LONDON - Singer and actress Jessica Simpson shocked fans at a concert when she walked off in tears after quite a few goof-ups. The singer was opening for band Rascal Flatts at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, but the 38-minute show was riddled with embarrassing errors, which eventually forced her to apologise to the audience, reports contactmusic.com.

January 9th, 2009 LONDON - British Telecom (BT) has taken disciplinary action against an Indian employee at its India-based call centre after a woman complained of receiving amorous text messages from him. The unidentified woman, from Portsmouth, England, told BT the person had identified himself as Hemant when she rang the company to send over an engineer to set up a landline at her new house.

December 22nd, 2008 LONDON - A British woman is running from pillar to post to find the cause of her daughter's death days after she married her Indian boyfriend in India. Sandy Hunter, 50, has just returned from India after securing guardianship of her daughter Charlotte Bending's son from a previous marriage.