Miss Virginia wins 2010 Miss America crown

LAS VEGAS – Miss Virginia Caressa Cameron has won the 2010 Miss America title after strutting in a yellow dress, belting Beyonce's "Listen" from "Dreamgirls" and telling kids they should get outside more often. Cameron won a $50,000 scholarship and the crown in Las Vegas after a Saturday night pageant that started with 53 contestants.
Cameron, a 22-year-old from Fredericksburg, Va., outlasted her opponents in swimsuit, evening gown, talent and interview competitions. Miss California Kristy Cavinder was the first runner-up, winning $25,000. Cameron is a broadcast journalism student at Virginia Commonwealth University, and wants to become an anchor.

Newborn atramentous holes can backfire stars

Washington: Astronomers belief two exploding stars, or supernovae, accept begin affirmation the blasts accustomed an added addition from bairn atramentous holes.The supernovae were begin to afford jets of particles traveling at added than bisected the acceleration of light.Previously, the alone adverse contest accepted to aftermath such accelerated jets were gamma-ray bursts, the universe''s best beaming explosions.

"The access dynamics in archetypal supernovae absolute the acceleration of the accretion amount to about three percent the acceleration of light," explained Chryssa Kouveliotou, an astrophysicst at NASA''s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., co-author of one of the fresh studies."Yet, in these fresh objects, we''re tracking gas affective some 20 times faster than this," Kouveliotou added.

The astronomers apparent the ultrafast bits by belief two supernovae at radio wavelengths application abundant facilities, including the National Science Foundation''s Very Large Array in Socorro, N.M., and the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.

Apple unveils revolutionary iPad tablet

San Francisco: Apple CEO Steve Jobs has apparent the iPad, a tablet-style computer that resembles the iPhone, but larger.

"It's so abundant added affectionate than a laptop and so abundant added able than a acute phone," Jobs said Wednesday at the device's awful advancing admission in San Francisco.

Jobs approved how the iPad is acclimated for surfing the Web with Apple's Safari browser. He typed an e-mail application an on-screen keyboard and addled through photo albums by flicking his feel beyond the screen.The CEO says the iPad will additionally be added good for account books, arena amateur and watching video than either a laptop or a acute phone.No amount or advice on availability was anon announced.

Now Apple will accept to argue consumers, abounding of whom already accept Internet-connected phones, computers and TVs, that that's the case. Book computers accept existed for a decade, with little success.Shares in Apple fell $4.65, or 2.3 percent, to $201.29 in afternoon trading Wednesday. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company's shares accept added than angled over the accomplished year, partly on apprehension of the book computer.

World Economic Forum begins tomorrow

The Apple Economic Forum bliss off in the Swiss boondocks of Davos on Wednesday. Leaders from over 90 countries apery business, government and civilian association accept accustomed to agitation issues that face the all-around economy.Cars zipping beyond snow-lined streets and aegis actuality beefed up, the asleep Swiss ski boondocks of Davos is gearing up to acceptable leaders from about the world.

Every year in the end of January, the affluent and the able from about the apple assemble actuality at the assembly centre to agitation issues that face the all-around economy.But this year's affair assumes appropriate acceptation advancing at a time back the apple is convalescent from the affliction crisis in contempo history, a crisis in which 5 abundance dollars was pumped in as stimulus.

The apple leaders are accepted to altercate a host of issues like the bang avenue strategy, the attributes of the accretion and whether we are headed for a bifold downturn, Obama's arguable cyberbanking reform, worries like aggrandizement and asset amount bubbles and how economies charge to assignment appear abbreviation the ascent budgetary deficits.

The affair will be opened by Nicolas Sarkozy. India Inc will be present in abounding appearance including Mukesh Ambani, Chanda Kochar, Anand Mahindra and Sunil Bharti Mittal.While it's freezing algid in Davos, but leaders are acquisitive that the arctic of the banking crisis is over and all-around abridgement will alpha warming.

22 Gifts For Kangana

Kangna Ranaut is understandably ecstatic. After winning the National Award for Best Supporting Actress in Madhur Bhandarkar’s Fashion, she has
She was delightfully surprised when yesterday evening at around 4 pm, Sameer, a Delhi-based fan, sent a huge gift hamper to Kangna’s place. Inside were three boxes – one with 22 wine bottles, another with 22 cakes of different shapes and sizes and the third loaded with 22 accessories including earrings, bracelets, and bangles. There was also a sweet note from the fan accompanying the parcel saying, “22 because you are a 22-year-old and a National Award is no mean achievement at such a young age.” Atta girl, Kangs.

Britney to auction MTV outfit for Haiti

Pop princess Britney Spears is willing to join the celeb bandwagon who are making their own contribution to help the earthquake victims in Haiti by auctioning off the dress she wore to the 2008 MTV awards.

The 'Toxic' hitmaker had worn a sparkly silver minidress to the awards night and had walked away with three awards for her video 'Piece of Me'.Spears had placed a request to be allowed to hold the auction during her conservatorship hearing in an Los Angeles courtroom on Friday, reported Radar online.

"Britney is very enthusiastic about making a donation to the cause," said her attorney Sam Ingham.To the 28-year-old pop star's delight, the judge granted her request.But her independence seems a far-off thing as the conservatorship is still in place with Spears' father Jamie remaining in charge of his daughter's financial and legal affairs, as he has done since it was started in early 2008.

Priyanka bags National Award

Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra won her first National Award for her performance in Madhur Bhandarkar's critically acclaimed film Fashion. The 56th National Film Award for 2008 were announced on Saturday.