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A.R.Rahman's Live Tunes in Chennai

Herbie Hancock, a Grammy award winner, and AR Rahman are currently conducting a musical exploration in India with Martin Luther King's successor.A.R. Rahman as well as Jazz player Herbie Hancock, a Grammy award winner, will get together for a mega musical performance based on the motto of nonviolence in Chennai on the 24th of February 2009. Hancock who is part of the official US delegation accompanying Martin Luther King III on a 11-day tour of India would perform on a special composition by Rahman the theme of non violence. Performing with Hancock include a vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewaters, artist Chaka Khan and grand piano player George Duke."I absolutely loved the music of Slumdog. It combines the influence of several cultures," Hancock said referring to the British Danny Boyle rags-to riches film with music by A R Rahman which is in the running for multiple Oscars this year.

JADE GOODY WEDDING ON SUNDAY

British reality television star Jade Goody, who has terminal cancer, is to get married on Sunday, having made up her mind to "walk down that isle".The 27-year-old mother of two, who was told last week that she has just months to live, has left London's Royal Marsden Hospital in a wheelchair to exchange engagement rings with her lover Jack Tweed, 21, on the banks of the river Thames.Goody's friend and publicist Max Clifford said, "I spoke to Jade last night and it is all on for Sunday."The couple are hoping to get married at the plush Down Hall country house, in Hatfield Heath, Hertforeshire - a hotel housed in an Italian-style mansion dating back to 1322.Goody told The Sun: "I am going to die in this hospital, so I don't want to get married here.""But wherever we tie the knot, I'm determined to walk down that aisle."She said she has "lost my balance", which the doctors were not sure was a sign of her illness or just general weakness."But I'm hoping I will have the strength to walk on my big day. It would be so cruel to be robbed of that one last thing as well," Goody added.Goody and Tweed visited the upmarket Harrods store, where the bride-to-be picked out a wedding dress, a gift from the store's owner Mohamed Fayed."This has given her something to think about, a happy event."The wedding, the christening of her two boys, these are all positive things to focus on as opposed to the cancer and what is happening to her and what she is going through."Clifford said the star also picked out Armani suits for her two sons, Bobby, five, and Freddie, four.Goody, who became embroiled in a race row with Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty in January 2007, was diagnosed with her cervical cancer last August, which has since spread to her liver, bowels and groin.

WEIGHT LOSS TIPS

Tried everything, from long walks to Atkins diet, but still not able to squeeze into your college pants? Well, take heart, for it has been claimed that eating two bowls of cereal a day could help obese people lose weight.According to a new study carried out by experts at Oxford Brookes University, which consisted of 41 people, suggested that people who eat cereal for two out of their three daily meals could lose more than 4lb in six weeks.To reach the conclusion, the research team asked volunteers to eat only cereal for breakfast and lunch but allowed them to have whatever they wanted for dinner.They found that those who combined different varieties of cereal lost most weight but many of those who stuck to one type also weighed less by the end.The study published by the British Nutrition Foundation found that two thirds of those who ate a single cereal and 78 per cent of those who opted for a combination had lost weight by the end of the period.While those on a combined diet lost an average of 4.4lb, those who stuck to their favourite brand lost only 1.3lb."The results of this study are very interesting and further evidence of the benefits of breakfast cereal as part of a weight-management programme," the Telegraph quoted Lynne Garton, a nutritionist, as telling the Daily Express."Breakfast cereals are easy to incorporate into the diet and can contain substantial amounts of fibre, iron, folic acid and zinc as well as being low in fat.

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