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Nicole Scherzinger's dash of oomph to Taste of Dubai

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(L-R) Lauraen Cooper, Nicole Scherzinger and Helena Flynn pose for a picture in the VIP Lounge at Taste of Dubai on March 14, 2014 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Getty Images for British Airways)

 



British Airways hosted former Pussycat Dolls lead singer and multi-platinum selling solo artist Nicole Scherzinger at the British Airways exclusive VIP Lounge at Taste of Dubai on March 14, 2014 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Getty Images for British Airways)



British Airways hosted former Pussycat Dolls lead singer and multi-platinum selling solo artist Nicole Scherzinger at the British Airways exclusive VIP Lounge at Taste of Dubai on March 14, 2014 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Getty Images for British Airways)



British Airways hosted former Pussycat Dolls lead singer and multi-platinum selling solo artist Nicole Scherzinger at the British Airways exclusive VIP Lounge at Taste of Dubai on March 14, 2014 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Getty Images for British Airways)



British Airways hosted former Pussycat Dolls lead singer and multi-platinum selling solo artist Nicole Scherzinger at the British Airways exclusive VIP Lounge at Taste of Dubai on March 14, 2014 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Getty Images for British Airways)



British Airways hosted former Pussycat Dolls lead singer and multi-platinum selling solo artist Nicole Scherzinger at the British Airways exclusive VIP Lounge at Taste of Dubai on March 14, 2014 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Getty Images for British Airways)



British Airways hosted former Pussycat Dolls lead singer and multi-platinum selling solo artist Nicole Scherzinger at the British Airways exclusive VIP Lounge at Taste of Dubai on March 14, 2014 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Getty Images for British Airways)



British Airways hosted former Pussycat Dolls lead singer and multi-platinum selling solo artist Nicole Scherzinger at the British Airways exclusive VIP Lounge at Taste of Dubai on March 14, 2014 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Getty Images for British Airways)



British Airways hosted former Pussycat Dolls lead singer and multi-platinum selling solo artist Nicole Scherzinger at the British Airways exclusive VIP Lounge at Taste of Dubai on March 14, 2014 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Getty Images for British Airways)

 

Russians rock the Qasba

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 Al Qasba hosted the Russian Folklore Show, featuring the gifted performers from Cities’ Life, a multi-talented folk arts group from Russia, which celebrated the rich folklore traditions of the people of Russia

  Performers of all ages were resplendent in their handmade national costumes, created using animal fur and traditional embroidery.

  Performers of all ages were resplendent in their handmade national costumes, created using animal fur and traditional embroidery.

 One element to especially to look out for will, undoubtedly, be the Khomus or mouth harp, the almost otherworldly tones of which are an inextricable part of the folklore music of the region.

Performers of all ages were resplendent in their handmade national costumes, created using animal fur and traditional embroidery.

Malaysia Airlines: Day 8, hopes 'hijacked'

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Day 8

 



A relative of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane waits for new informations at a hotel in Beijing on March 14, 2014. The needle-in-a-haystack hunt for the missing Malaysian airliner spread to the vast Indian Ocean on March 14 after the White House cited "new information" that it might have flown for hours after vanishing nearly seven days ago. (AFP)



A woman whose son was onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cries as journalists interview her at a hotel in Beijing Saturday, March 15, 2014. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Saturday that investigators believe the missing Malaysian airliner's communications were deliberately disabled, that it turned back from its flight to Beijing and flew for more than seven hours. (AP)



Relatives of Chinese passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 listen to a live telecast of a press conference by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak at a hotel in Beijing Saturday, March 15, 2014. Najib said Saturday that investigators believe the missing Malaysian airliner's communications were deliberately disabled, that it turned back from its flight to Beijing and flew for more than seven hours. (AP)

 

Relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane wait for new informations at a hotel in Beijing on March 15, 2014. The needle-in-a-haystack hunt for the missing Malaysian airliner spread to the vast Indian Ocean on March 14 after the White House cited "new information" that it might have flown for hours after vanishing nearly seven days ago. (AFP)

Day 7

A Malaysia Airlines employee writes a message expressing prayers and well-wishes for passengers onboard missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370 at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang. (AFP)

Members of the Malaysia Airlines' special assistance team to help relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 leave the lounge in Beijing. (AFP)

Relatives of Chinese passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 leave from a room at a hotel in Beijing, China. (AP)

Col. Vu Duc Long of the Brigade 918, Vietnam Air Force answers to the media after a search operation for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 plane over the southern sea between Vietnam and Malaysia at a airbase in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. (AP)

A relative of Chinese passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 grieves alone in a corridor at a hotel in Beijing. (AP)

Day 6

Beachgoers walk past a sand sculpture made by Indian sand artist Sudersan Pattnaik with a message of prayers for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 - which vanished from radar early on March 8 with ongoing search operations mounted by multiple nations taking place in the South China Sea, the Malacca Strait, and the Andaman Sea - at Puri beach, some 65 kilometers away from Bhubaneswar, on March 14, 2014. Malaysia denied March 12 that the hunt for a missing jet was in disarray, after the search veered far from the planned route and China said that conflicting information about its course was "pretty chaotic". (AFP)

Vietnamese Navy's Deputy Commander Rear Admiral Le Minh Thanh (R) points at a map to show the area where Vietnam is conducting search activities for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 in Phu Quoc island on March 12, 2014. Vietnam said on March 12 it had suspended its air search for missing flight MH370 and scaled back a sea search as it waited for Malaysia to clarify the potential new direction of the multi-national hunt. (AFP)


An Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency personnel scans the seas aboard a boat on patrol in the Malacca Strait off Aceh province located in the area of northern Sumatra island on March 12, 2014 during the continued search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The search for a missing Malaysian jet swung northwest towards the Andaman Sea on March 12, far from its intended flight path, exposing Malaysia to mounting criticism that its response was in disarray. (AFP)
 

Relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane receive a cash payment to help with living and travel costs while they wait for news at the Metro Park Lido Hotel in Beijing on March 12, 2014.  Malaysia's air force chief said authorities have not ruled out the possibility a missing airliner inexplicably changed course before losing contact, but denied reports the jet had been detected far from its planned flight path. (AFP)


Malaysia airlines officials assist the relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 plane, during lunch at a restaurant in Beijing on March 12, 2014. Malaysia's air force chief said authorities have not ruled out the possibility a missing airliner inexplicably changed course before losing contact, but denied reports the jet had been detected far from its planned flight path. (AFP)

Day 5

 

Grieving Indonesian mother Suharni (L) displays a portrait of her son Sugianto Lo and wife Vinny Chynthya, who are both passengers of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, from their residence in Medan in Sumatra island on March 10, 2013. Mystery deepened on March 10 over the fate of a Malaysian jet carrying 239 people, as tests on oil slicks scotched suspicions it was aircraft fuel while the search for debris failed to yield any trace of the missing aircraft. (AFP)

 

Heavily armed Philippine anti-terrorist police (L) patrol around Manila's International Airport terminal on March 11, 2014. Revelations that at least two people used stolen passports to board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which went missing early on March 8 with 239 people on board after taking off from Kuala Lumpur's international airport, have fuelled fears of a security breach, raising concerns across the region. (AFP)

 

Family members of passengers aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vote to set a deadline for the company to answer their requests, including providing solatium without additional conditions, at a hotel in Beijing, March 11, 2014. China urged Malaysia to step up the search for a Malaysia Airlines jetliner that went missing with 239 people on board, about two-thirds of them Chinese, and said it has sent security agents to help with an investigation into the misuse of passports. (REUTERS)

Women put the final touches to a sign of support and hope for the passengers of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 they made and brought to the Kuala Lumpur International Airport March 11, 2014. The Malaysian military believes an airliner missing for almost four days with 239 people on board flew for more than an hour after vanishing from air traffic control screens, changing course and travelling west over the Strait of Malacca, a senior military source said. (REUTERS)

Day 4

 

Relatives of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane hug each other at a hotel in Beijing, Monday, March 10, 2014. The anguished hours had turned into a day and a half. Fed up with awaiting word on the missing plane, relatives of passengers in Beijing lashed out at the carrier with a handwritten ultimatum and an impromptu news conference. (AP)


Malaysian ethnic Chinese sing songs as they hold a candlelight vigil for the passengers of Malaysia Airlines MH370 near Independence Square in Kuala Lumpur March 10, 2014. The disappearance of a Malaysian airliner about an hour into a flight to Beijing is an "unprecedented mystery", the civil aviation chief said on Monday, as a massive air and sea search now in its third day failed to find any trace of the plane or 239 people on board. (REUTERS)


A Chinese relative of a passenger of Malaysia Airlines MH370 is comforted by a staff member of the airport as she shields her face from journalists at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang March 10, 2014. The disappearance of a Malaysian airliner about an hour into a flight to Beijing is an "unprecedented mystery", the civil aviation chief said on Monday, as a massive air and sea search now in its third day failed to find any trace of the plane or 239 people on board. (REUTERS)

Relatives of a passenger onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cry inside a hotel they are staying, in Putrajaya March 10, 2014. China urged Malaysia to step up the search for a Malaysia Airlines jetliner that went missing with 239 people on board, about two-thirds of them Chinese, and said it has sent security agents to help with an investigation into the misuse of passports. (REUTERS)


An upset relative of a passenger of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is led away after approaching officials for information at a hotel in Putrajaya March 9, 2014. The flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday, after losing contact with air traffic controllers off the eastern Malaysia coast. (REUTERS)


Rosmah Mansor (L), wife of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, cries with family members of passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, at a hotel in Putrajaya March 9, 2014. Radar tracking the missing Malaysia Airlines flight indicated that it may have turned back from its scheduled route to Beijing before disappearing, and Malaysian rescue teams have expanded their search to the country's western coast, Malaysian military officials said on Sunday. (REUTERS)


A relative (L) of a passenger of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is escorted by a caregiver from Malaysia Airlines as they walk in a corridor at a hotel in Beijing, March 9, 2014. The flight, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday. (REUTERS)

Day 3

Relatives of Chinese passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane arrive at the Exit and Entry Administration of the Public Security Bureau, a police department in charge of issuing passports in Beijing, China, Sunday, March 9, 2014. (AP)


Chinese relatives of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane are leaving a hotel for relatives or friends of passengers aboard the missing airplane to apply for passport in Beijing, China Sunday, March 9, 2014. Planes and ships from across Asia resumed the hunt Sunday for a Malaysian jetliner missing with 239 people on board for more than 24 hours, while Malaysian aviation authorities investigated how two passengers were apparently able to get on the aircraft using stolen passports. (AP)


Family members of passengers aboard a missing plane cry at a hotel in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Sunday, March 9, 2014. Military radar indicates that the missing Boeing 777 jet may have turned back before vanishing, Malaysia's air force chief said Sunday as authorities were investigating up to four passengers with suspicious identifications. (AP)


A Malaysian Muslim woman offers a special prayer for passengers aboard a missing plane, at a mosque in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Sunday, March 9, 2014. Military radar indicates that the missing Boeing 777 jet may have turned back before vanishing, Malaysia's air force chief said Sunday as authorities were investigating up to four passengers with suspicious identifications. (AP)


A Malaysian Muslim woman cries as she offers a special prayer for passengers aboard a missing plane, at a mosque in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Sunday, March 9, 2014. Military radar indicates that the missing Boeing 777 jet may have turned back before vanishing, Malaysia's air force chief said Sunday as authorities were investigating up to four passengers with suspicious identifications. (AP)


Chinese relatives of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane wait outside a hotel in Beijing Sunday, March 9, 2014. More than a day and a half has passed since the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 jet disappeared from radar contact in the first hour of a six-hour flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to China’s capital. From France to Australia and China, families and friends are enduring an agonizing wait for news about flight MH370. (AP)

 

Day 2

Family members of those onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 walk to their car outside a hotel in Putrajaya March 9, 2014. A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday, and European officials said two people on board were using false identities. (REUTERS)
 

Family members of those onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight walk to their hotel in Putrajaya March 9, 2014. A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday, and European officials said two people on board were using false identities.   (REUTERS)

 

A relative of a passenger of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cries as she walks past journalists at a hotel in Beijing March 9, 2014. The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER aircraft carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday, and European officials said two people on board were using false identities. (REUTERS)


Family members of those onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cry at a hotel in Putrajaya March 9, 2014. Malaysia Airlines said on Sunday it now feared the worst for its missing plane carrying 239 people, more than a day after it went missing, and was working with a U.S. company that specializes in disaster recovery. (REUTERS)

 

A relative (front) of a passenger of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cries as she walks past journalists at a hotel in Beijing March 9, 2014. The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER aircraft carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday, and European officials said two people on board were using false identities. (REUTERS)

 

Family members look at a wedding album of Norliakmar Hamid (R, in veil) and Razahan Zamani, passengers on a missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane in Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014. Malaysia and Vietnam on March 8 led a search for a Malaysia Airlines jet that has gone missing over Southeast Asia, as fears mounted over the fate of the 239 people aboard.  (AFP)

 

Day 1

Sarah Nor, 55, the mother of 34-year-old Norliakmar Hamid, a passenger on a missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane, talks on a mobile phone at her house in Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014. Malaysia and Vietnam on March 8 led a search for a Malaysia Airlines jet that has gone missing over Southeast Asia, as fears mounted over the fate of the 239 people aboard.  (AFP)

 

Medical staff arrive at a hotel meeting room where relatives are being held after news of the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane in Beijing on March 8, 2014.  Malaysia and Vietnam on March 8 led a search for a Malaysia Airlines jet that has gone missing over Southeast Asia, as fears mounted over the fate of the 239 people aboard.   (AFP)

 

Medical staff (centre) arrive at a hotel meeting room where relatives are being held after news of the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane in Beijing on March 8, 2014.    

 

A man (C) thought to be a relative of a passenger of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight walks through a group of reporrters at a hotel in Beijing on March 8, 2014.  Rescuers from several nations mounted an air and sea search on March 8 for a Malaysia Airlines jet that has gone missing over Southeast Asia, with grave fears for the 239 people on board. (AFP)

 

Family members of those onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 walk into the waiting area at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang March 8, 2014. The flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew went missing over the South China Sea on Saturday, presumed crashed, as ships from countries closest to its flight path scoured a large search area for any wreckage. Vietnamese state media, quoting a senior naval official, had reported that the Boeing 777-200ER flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing had crashed off south Vietnam, but Malaysia's transport minister later denied any crash scene had been identified.  (Reuters)

 

A woman breaks down while leaving the reception centre for families and friends after an airliner went missing at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 8, 2014. Malaysia and Vietnam on March 8 led a search for a Malaysia Airlines jet that has gone missing over Southeast Asia, as fears mounted over the fate of the 239 people aboard.  (AFP)

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Shilpa Shetty slim'n'trim on 'Comedy nights with Kapil'

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Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty and Harman Baweja were on the sets of  'Comedy nights with Kapil' to promote their upcoming movie 'Dishkiyaoon'.

 

 

Priyanka Chopra royal to fashion queen Victoriya Beckham

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During the 15th edition of FICCI Frames in Mumbai, Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra proved why she is called the beauty with brains.

Dressed smartly in a Victoriya Beckham shirt and black jacket teamed with Black Dolce and Gabbana pants, Priyanka was at her formal best.

Quizzed by TV journalist, Priyanka says she is glad that women are finally getting their due in Hindi films.

She intelligently answered all questions, exuding wisdom and knowledge about her field of expertise which is Bollywood.

However, Priyanka Chopra also raised the issue of disparity in income as far as male and female actors go.

Dia Mirza dances down the ramp in Lakme Fashion Week

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Bollywood actor Dia Mirza walked the ramp for celebrity designer, Anita Dongre during India's Lakme Fashion week.

Dressed in a buttercup-yellow skirt and a crop top of the same colour, she won hearts with her charming smile and her performance on folk songs.

Actor Shabana Azmi, Urmila Matondkar, Sona Mahapatra, Mugdha Godse were among the other celebrities wear Anita Dongre.


Nargis Fakhri's stunning show-stopper at LFW

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Indian Bollywood actress Nargis Fakhri showcases a creation by designer Shehla Khan on the fifth day of the Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) summer/resort 2014 in Mumbai. (AFP)

 

Indian Bollywood actress Nargis Fakhri showcases a creation by designer Shehla Khan on the fifth day of the Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) summer/resort 2014 in Mumbai . (AFP)

 

Indian Bollywood actress Nargis Fakhri (C) showcases a creation by designer Shehla Khan on the fifth day of the Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) summer/resort 2014 in Mumbai. (AFP)

 

 

Malaysia Airlines: Day 9, hopes 'hijacked'

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Day 9

 

People watch a live TV feed of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak speaking at a press conference, at a hotel in Beijing on March 15, 2014. Malaysia's leader on March 15 said communications aboard a missing jet were switched off and its course deliberately changed by someone on board before the aircraft disappeared a week ago, but stopped short of saying it had been hijacked. (AFP)

 



In this picture taken on March 14, 2014, Subramaniam Gurusamy, 60, (R) father of Puspanathan who was onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight is consoled by friends at his home in Teluk Panglima Garang, outside Kuala Lumpur. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said that Malaysia was ending a search in the South China Sea for a vanished jetliner after investigations indicated the missing plane likely turned far to the west. (AFP)

 



Students pray for the passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 during a class at an elementary school in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Saturday, March 15, 2014. The Malaysian passenger jet missing for more than a week had its communications deliberately disabled and its last signal came about seven and a half hours after takeoff, meaning it could have ended up as far as Kazakhstan or deep in the southern Indian Ocean, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Saturday. (AP)

 



A young relative of a passenger aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 reacts during a meeting with Malaysia Airlines at Lido Hotel in Beijing, March 16, 2014. The missing Malaysian airliner appears to have been deliberately steered off course after someone on board shut down its communications, Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Saturday. (REUTERS)

 



Relatives of passengers aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 chat after a meeting with representatives from the airline at Lido Hotel in Beijing, March 16, 2014. The missing Malaysian airliner appears to have been deliberately steered off course after someone on board shut down its communications, Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Saturday. (REUTERS)

 

Messages of support and hope for the passengers of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 are placed at the departure hall of Kuala Lumpur International Airport March 15, 2014. Investigators believe someone aboard the missing Malaysian airliner deliberately shut off its communications and tracking systems, turned the plane around and flew for nearly seven hours after it vanished, Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Saturday. (REUTERS)
 

Day 8

 



A relative of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane waits for new informations at a hotel in Beijing on March 14, 2014. The needle-in-a-haystack hunt for the missing Malaysian airliner spread to the vast Indian Ocean on March 14 after the White House cited "new information" that it might have flown for hours after vanishing nearly seven days ago. (AFP)



A woman whose son was onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cries as journalists interview her at a hotel in Beijing Saturday, March 15, 2014. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Saturday that investigators believe the missing Malaysian airliner's communications were deliberately disabled, that it turned back from its flight to Beijing and flew for more than seven hours. (AP)



Relatives of Chinese passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 listen to a live telecast of a press conference by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak at a hotel in Beijing Saturday, March 15, 2014. Najib said Saturday that investigators believe the missing Malaysian airliner's communications were deliberately disabled, that it turned back from its flight to Beijing and flew for more than seven hours. (AP)

 

Relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane wait for new informations at a hotel in Beijing on March 15, 2014. The needle-in-a-haystack hunt for the missing Malaysian airliner spread to the vast Indian Ocean on March 14 after the White House cited "new information" that it might have flown for hours after vanishing nearly seven days ago. (AFP)

Day 7

A Malaysia Airlines employee writes a message expressing prayers and well-wishes for passengers onboard missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370 at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang. (AFP)

Members of the Malaysia Airlines' special assistance team to help relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 leave the lounge in Beijing. (AFP)

Relatives of Chinese passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 leave from a room at a hotel in Beijing, China. (AP)

Col. Vu Duc Long of the Brigade 918, Vietnam Air Force answers to the media after a search operation for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 plane over the southern sea between Vietnam and Malaysia at a airbase in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. (AP)

A relative of Chinese passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 grieves alone in a corridor at a hotel in Beijing. (AP)

Day 6

Beachgoers walk past a sand sculpture made by Indian sand artist Sudersan Pattnaik with a message of prayers for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 - which vanished from radar early on March 8 with ongoing search operations mounted by multiple nations taking place in the South China Sea, the Malacca Strait, and the Andaman Sea - at Puri beach, some 65 kilometers away from Bhubaneswar, on March 14, 2014. Malaysia denied March 12 that the hunt for a missing jet was in disarray, after the search veered far from the planned route and China said that conflicting information about its course was "pretty chaotic". (AFP)

Vietnamese Navy's Deputy Commander Rear Admiral Le Minh Thanh (R) points at a map to show the area where Vietnam is conducting search activities for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 in Phu Quoc island on March 12, 2014. Vietnam said on March 12 it had suspended its air search for missing flight MH370 and scaled back a sea search as it waited for Malaysia to clarify the potential new direction of the multi-national hunt. (AFP)


An Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency personnel scans the seas aboard a boat on patrol in the Malacca Strait off Aceh province located in the area of northern Sumatra island on March 12, 2014 during the continued search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The search for a missing Malaysian jet swung northwest towards the Andaman Sea on March 12, far from its intended flight path, exposing Malaysia to mounting criticism that its response was in disarray. (AFP)
 

Relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane receive a cash payment to help with living and travel costs while they wait for news at the Metro Park Lido Hotel in Beijing on March 12, 2014.  Malaysia's air force chief said authorities have not ruled out the possibility a missing airliner inexplicably changed course before losing contact, but denied reports the jet had been detected far from its planned flight path. (AFP)


Malaysia airlines officials assist the relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 plane, during lunch at a restaurant in Beijing on March 12, 2014. Malaysia's air force chief said authorities have not ruled out the possibility a missing airliner inexplicably changed course before losing contact, but denied reports the jet had been detected far from its planned flight path. (AFP)

Day 5

 

Grieving Indonesian mother Suharni (L) displays a portrait of her son Sugianto Lo and wife Vinny Chynthya, who are both passengers of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, from their residence in Medan in Sumatra island on March 10, 2013. Mystery deepened on March 10 over the fate of a Malaysian jet carrying 239 people, as tests on oil slicks scotched suspicions it was aircraft fuel while the search for debris failed to yield any trace of the missing aircraft. (AFP)

 

Heavily armed Philippine anti-terrorist police (L) patrol around Manila's International Airport terminal on March 11, 2014. Revelations that at least two people used stolen passports to board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which went missing early on March 8 with 239 people on board after taking off from Kuala Lumpur's international airport, have fuelled fears of a security breach, raising concerns across the region. (AFP)

 

Family members of passengers aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vote to set a deadline for the company to answer their requests, including providing solatium without additional conditions, at a hotel in Beijing, March 11, 2014. China urged Malaysia to step up the search for a Malaysia Airlines jetliner that went missing with 239 people on board, about two-thirds of them Chinese, and said it has sent security agents to help with an investigation into the misuse of passports. (REUTERS)

Women put the final touches to a sign of support and hope for the passengers of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 they made and brought to the Kuala Lumpur International Airport March 11, 2014. The Malaysian military believes an airliner missing for almost four days with 239 people on board flew for more than an hour after vanishing from air traffic control screens, changing course and travelling west over the Strait of Malacca, a senior military source said. (REUTERS)

Day 4

 

Relatives of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane hug each other at a hotel in Beijing, Monday, March 10, 2014. The anguished hours had turned into a day and a half. Fed up with awaiting word on the missing plane, relatives of passengers in Beijing lashed out at the carrier with a handwritten ultimatum and an impromptu news conference. (AP)


Malaysian ethnic Chinese sing songs as they hold a candlelight vigil for the passengers of Malaysia Airlines MH370 near Independence Square in Kuala Lumpur March 10, 2014. The disappearance of a Malaysian airliner about an hour into a flight to Beijing is an "unprecedented mystery", the civil aviation chief said on Monday, as a massive air and sea search now in its third day failed to find any trace of the plane or 239 people on board. (REUTERS)


A Chinese relative of a passenger of Malaysia Airlines MH370 is comforted by a staff member of the airport as she shields her face from journalists at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang March 10, 2014. The disappearance of a Malaysian airliner about an hour into a flight to Beijing is an "unprecedented mystery", the civil aviation chief said on Monday, as a massive air and sea search now in its third day failed to find any trace of the plane or 239 people on board. (REUTERS)

Relatives of a passenger onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cry inside a hotel they are staying, in Putrajaya March 10, 2014. China urged Malaysia to step up the search for a Malaysia Airlines jetliner that went missing with 239 people on board, about two-thirds of them Chinese, and said it has sent security agents to help with an investigation into the misuse of passports. (REUTERS)


An upset relative of a passenger of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is led away after approaching officials for information at a hotel in Putrajaya March 9, 2014. The flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday, after losing contact with air traffic controllers off the eastern Malaysia coast. (REUTERS)


Rosmah Mansor (L), wife of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, cries with family members of passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, at a hotel in Putrajaya March 9, 2014. Radar tracking the missing Malaysia Airlines flight indicated that it may have turned back from its scheduled route to Beijing before disappearing, and Malaysian rescue teams have expanded their search to the country's western coast, Malaysian military officials said on Sunday. (REUTERS)


A relative (L) of a passenger of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is escorted by a caregiver from Malaysia Airlines as they walk in a corridor at a hotel in Beijing, March 9, 2014. The flight, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday. (REUTERS)

Day 3

Relatives of Chinese passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane arrive at the Exit and Entry Administration of the Public Security Bureau, a police department in charge of issuing passports in Beijing, China, Sunday, March 9, 2014. (AP)


Chinese relatives of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane are leaving a hotel for relatives or friends of passengers aboard the missing airplane to apply for passport in Beijing, China Sunday, March 9, 2014. Planes and ships from across Asia resumed the hunt Sunday for a Malaysian jetliner missing with 239 people on board for more than 24 hours, while Malaysian aviation authorities investigated how two passengers were apparently able to get on the aircraft using stolen passports. (AP)


Family members of passengers aboard a missing plane cry at a hotel in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Sunday, March 9, 2014. Military radar indicates that the missing Boeing 777 jet may have turned back before vanishing, Malaysia's air force chief said Sunday as authorities were investigating up to four passengers with suspicious identifications. (AP)


A Malaysian Muslim woman offers a special prayer for passengers aboard a missing plane, at a mosque in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Sunday, March 9, 2014. Military radar indicates that the missing Boeing 777 jet may have turned back before vanishing, Malaysia's air force chief said Sunday as authorities were investigating up to four passengers with suspicious identifications. (AP)


A Malaysian Muslim woman cries as she offers a special prayer for passengers aboard a missing plane, at a mosque in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Sunday, March 9, 2014. Military radar indicates that the missing Boeing 777 jet may have turned back before vanishing, Malaysia's air force chief said Sunday as authorities were investigating up to four passengers with suspicious identifications. (AP)


Chinese relatives of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane wait outside a hotel in Beijing Sunday, March 9, 2014. More than a day and a half has passed since the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 jet disappeared from radar contact in the first hour of a six-hour flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to China’s capital. From France to Australia and China, families and friends are enduring an agonizing wait for news about flight MH370. (AP)

 

Day 2

Family members of those onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 walk to their car outside a hotel in Putrajaya March 9, 2014. A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday, and European officials said two people on board were using false identities. (REUTERS)
 

Family members of those onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight walk to their hotel in Putrajaya March 9, 2014. A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday, and European officials said two people on board were using false identities.   (REUTERS)

 

A relative of a passenger of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cries as she walks past journalists at a hotel in Beijing March 9, 2014. The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER aircraft carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday, and European officials said two people on board were using false identities. (REUTERS)


Family members of those onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cry at a hotel in Putrajaya March 9, 2014. Malaysia Airlines said on Sunday it now feared the worst for its missing plane carrying 239 people, more than a day after it went missing, and was working with a U.S. company that specializes in disaster recovery. (REUTERS)

 

A relative (front) of a passenger of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cries as she walks past journalists at a hotel in Beijing March 9, 2014. The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER aircraft carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday, and European officials said two people on board were using false identities. (REUTERS)

 

Family members look at a wedding album of Norliakmar Hamid (R, in veil) and Razahan Zamani, passengers on a missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane in Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014. Malaysia and Vietnam on March 8 led a search for a Malaysia Airlines jet that has gone missing over Southeast Asia, as fears mounted over the fate of the 239 people aboard.  (AFP)

 

Day 1

Sarah Nor, 55, the mother of 34-year-old Norliakmar Hamid, a passenger on a missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane, talks on a mobile phone at her house in Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014. Malaysia and Vietnam on March 8 led a search for a Malaysia Airlines jet that has gone missing over Southeast Asia, as fears mounted over the fate of the 239 people aboard.  (AFP)

 

Medical staff arrive at a hotel meeting room where relatives are being held after news of the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane in Beijing on March 8, 2014.  Malaysia and Vietnam on March 8 led a search for a Malaysia Airlines jet that has gone missing over Southeast Asia, as fears mounted over the fate of the 239 people aboard.   (AFP)

 

A man (C) thought to be a relative of a passenger of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight walks through a group of reporrters at a hotel in Beijing on March 8, 2014.  Rescuers from several nations mounted an air and sea search on March 8 for a Malaysia Airlines jet that has gone missing over Southeast Asia, with grave fears for the 239 people on board. (AFP)

 

Family members of those onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 walk into the waiting area at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang March 8, 2014. The flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew went missing over the South China Sea on Saturday, presumed crashed, as ships from countries closest to its flight path scoured a large search area for any wreckage. Vietnamese state media, quoting a senior naval official, had reported that the Boeing 777-200ER flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing had crashed off south Vietnam, but Malaysia's transport minister later denied any crash scene had been identified.  (Reuters)

 

A woman breaks down while leaving the reception centre for families and friends after an airliner went missing at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 8, 2014. Malaysia and Vietnam on March 8 led a search for a Malaysia Airlines jet that has gone missing over Southeast Asia, as fears mounted over the fate of the 239 people aboard.  (AFP)

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LFW ramp on fire: Sunny Leone, Malaika Arora Khan, Ileana D'Cruz, Karishma Kapoor

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Sanny Leone showcases a creation by designer Jyotsna Tiwari on the sixth day of the Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) summer/resort 2014 in Mumbai. (AFP)

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Malaika Arora Khan showcases a creation by designer Anju Modi on the fifth day of the Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) summer/resort 2014 in Mumbai. (AFP)

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Ileana D'Cruz showcases a creation by designer Anushree Reddy on the fifth day of the Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) summer/resort 2014 in Mumbai. (AFP)

Karishma Kapoor showcases a creation by designer Arpita Mehta on the fifth day of the Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) summer/resort 2014 in Mumbai. (AFP)

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Priyanka Chopra stunning in Neeta Lulla creation

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Priyanka Chopra showcases a creation by designer Neeta Lulla on the sixth day of the Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) summer/resort 2014 in Mumbai. (AFP)

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Kareena Kapoor's grand fashion finale

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Indian Bollywood film actress Kareena Kapoor showcases a creation by designer Rajesh Pratap Singh during The Grand Finale of Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) summer/resort 2014 in Mumbai.  (AFP)

Indian Bollywood film actress Kareena Kapoor showcases a creation by designer Rajesh Pratap Singh during The Grand Finale of Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) summer/resort 2014 in Mumbai.  (AFP)

Indian Bollywood film actress Kareena Kapoor showcases a creation by designer Rajesh Pratap Singh during The Grand Finale of Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) summer/resort 2014 in Mumbai.  (AFP)

 

Ramp on fire: Sunny Leone, Malaika Arora, Ileana, Karishma

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Sunny Leone showcases a creation by designer Jyotsna Tiwari on the sixth day of the Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) summer/resort 2014 in Mumbai. (AFP)

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Malaika Arora Khan showcases a creation by designer Anju Modi on the fifth day of the Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) summer/resort 2014 in Mumbai. (AFP)

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Ileana D'Cruz showcases a creation by designer Anushree Reddy on the fifth day of the Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) summer/resort 2014 in Mumbai. (AFP)

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Karishma Kapoor showcases a creation by designer Arpita Mehta on the fifth day of the Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) summer/resort 2014 in Mumbai. (AFP)

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Malaysia Airlines: Day 11, Criminal hunt

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Day 11
 

Students walk past a giant mural featuring missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 displayed on the grounds of their school in Manila's financial district of Makati on March 18, 2014, created as part of solidarity action by concerned artists for the passengers and crew of the missing plane. Three million people around the world have joined an effort led by a satellite operator to locate the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, in what may be the largest crowdsourcing project of its kind. The plane went missing early on March 8 with 239 passengers and crew aboard, spawning a massive international search across Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean that has turned up no trace of wreckage. (AFP)

 



Relatives of Chinese passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 watch a TV news program about the missing plane as they wait for more official information at a hotel ballroom in Beijing, China, Monday, March 17, 2014. Attention focused Sunday on the pilots of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight after the country's leader announced findings so far that suggest someone with intimate knowledge of the Boeing 777's cockpit seized control of the plane and sent it off-course. (AP)

 



A boy plays as residents of Boeung Kak Lake prepare candles before a Buddhist ceremony praying for the release of 21 detainees, who have been jailed since January 3 when military police opened fire on workers striking over low pay, killing four people, and to pray for the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370, in Phnom Penh March 17, 2014. (REUTERS)

 



Family members of passengers onboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vote to talk directly to Malaysian government's representatives during a meeting with the airline's representatives at Lido Hotel in Beijing March 17, 2014. No trace of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has been found since it vanished on March 8 with 239 people aboard. Investigators are increasingly convinced it was diverted perhaps thousands of miles off course by someone with deep knowledge of the Boeing 777-200ER and commercial navigation. (REUTERS)

 


Chinese relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 leave after a meeting with airline officials at the Metro Park Lido Hotel in Beijing on March 17, 2014. An investigation into the pilots of missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 intensified on March 17 after officials confirmed that the last words spoken from the cockpit came after a key signalling system was manually disabled. (AFP)

 

Day 10

 

Chinese relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 leave a meetining with officials at the Metro Park Lido Hotel in Beijing on March 16, 2014. Malaysia's leader on March 15 said communications aboard the missing jet were switched off and its course deliberately changed by someone on board before the aircraft disappeared a week ago, but stopped short of saying it had been hijacked. (AFP)



Chinese relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 leave a meetining with officials at the Metro Park Lido Hotel in Beijing on March 16, 2014. Malaysia's leader on March 15 said communications aboard the missing jet were switched off and its course deliberately changed by someone on board before the aircraft disappeared a week ago, but stopped short of saying it had been hijacked. (AFP)




Chinese relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 leave a meetining with officials at the Metro Park Lido Hotel in Beijing on March 16, 2014. Malaysia's leader on March 15 said communications aboard the missing jet were switched off and its course deliberately changed by someone on board before the aircraft disappeared a week ago, but stopped short of saying it had been hijacked. (AFP)

 



In this March 13, 2014 file photo, university students hold a candlelight vigil for passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in Yangzhou, in eastern China's Jiangsu province. The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has exposed wide gaps in how the world's airlines, and their regulators, operate. But experts warn this isn’t likely to be one of those defining moments that lead to fundamental changes. (AP)



 

Day 9

 

People watch a live TV feed of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak speaking at a press conference, at a hotel in Beijing on March 15, 2014. Malaysia's leader on March 15 said communications aboard a missing jet were switched off and its course deliberately changed by someone on board before the aircraft disappeared a week ago, but stopped short of saying it had been hijacked. (AFP)

 



In this picture taken on March 14, 2014, Subramaniam Gurusamy, 60, (R) father of Puspanathan who was onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight is consoled by friends at his home in Teluk Panglima Garang, outside Kuala Lumpur. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said that Malaysia was ending a search in the South China Sea for a vanished jetliner after investigations indicated the missing plane likely turned far to the west. (AFP)

 



Students pray for the passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 during a class at an elementary school in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Saturday, March 15, 2014. The Malaysian passenger jet missing for more than a week had its communications deliberately disabled and its last signal came about seven and a half hours after takeoff, meaning it could have ended up as far as Kazakhstan or deep in the southern Indian Ocean, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Saturday. (AP)

 



A young relative of a passenger aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 reacts during a meeting with Malaysia Airlines at Lido Hotel in Beijing, March 16, 2014. The missing Malaysian airliner appears to have been deliberately steered off course after someone on board shut down its communications, Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Saturday. (REUTERS)

 



Relatives of passengers aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 chat after a meeting with representatives from the airline at Lido Hotel in Beijing, March 16, 2014. The missing Malaysian airliner appears to have been deliberately steered off course after someone on board shut down its communications, Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Saturday. (REUTERS)

 

Messages of support and hope for the passengers of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 are placed at the departure hall of Kuala Lumpur International Airport March 15, 2014. Investigators believe someone aboard the missing Malaysian airliner deliberately shut off its communications and tracking systems, turned the plane around and flew for nearly seven hours after it vanished, Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Saturday. (REUTERS)
 

Day 8

 



A relative of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane waits for new informations at a hotel in Beijing on March 14, 2014. The needle-in-a-haystack hunt for the missing Malaysian airliner spread to the vast Indian Ocean on March 14 after the White House cited "new information" that it might have flown for hours after vanishing nearly seven days ago. (AFP)



A woman whose son was onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cries as journalists interview her at a hotel in Beijing Saturday, March 15, 2014. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Saturday that investigators believe the missing Malaysian airliner's communications were deliberately disabled, that it turned back from its flight to Beijing and flew for more than seven hours. (AP)



Relatives of Chinese passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 listen to a live telecast of a press conference by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak at a hotel in Beijing Saturday, March 15, 2014. Najib said Saturday that investigators believe the missing Malaysian airliner's communications were deliberately disabled, that it turned back from its flight to Beijing and flew for more than seven hours. (AP)

 

Relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane wait for new informations at a hotel in Beijing on March 15, 2014. The needle-in-a-haystack hunt for the missing Malaysian airliner spread to the vast Indian Ocean on March 14 after the White House cited "new information" that it might have flown for hours after vanishing nearly seven days ago. (AFP)

Day 7

A Malaysia Airlines employee writes a message expressing prayers and well-wishes for passengers onboard missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370 at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang. (AFP)

Members of the Malaysia Airlines' special assistance team to help relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 leave the lounge in Beijing. (AFP)

Relatives of Chinese passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 leave from a room at a hotel in Beijing, China. (AP)

Col. Vu Duc Long of the Brigade 918, Vietnam Air Force answers to the media after a search operation for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 plane over the southern sea between Vietnam and Malaysia at a airbase in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. (AP)

A relative of Chinese passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 grieves alone in a corridor at a hotel in Beijing. (AP)

Day 6

Beachgoers walk past a sand sculpture made by Indian sand artist Sudersan Pattnaik with a message of prayers for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 - which vanished from radar early on March 8 with ongoing search operations mounted by multiple nations taking place in the South China Sea, the Malacca Strait, and the Andaman Sea - at Puri beach, some 65 kilometers away from Bhubaneswar, on March 14, 2014. Malaysia denied March 12 that the hunt for a missing jet was in disarray, after the search veered far from the planned route and China said that conflicting information about its course was "pretty chaotic". (AFP)

Vietnamese Navy's Deputy Commander Rear Admiral Le Minh Thanh (R) points at a map to show the area where Vietnam is conducting search activities for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 in Phu Quoc island on March 12, 2014. Vietnam said on March 12 it had suspended its air search for missing flight MH370 and scaled back a sea search as it waited for Malaysia to clarify the potential new direction of the multi-national hunt. (AFP)


An Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency personnel scans the seas aboard a boat on patrol in the Malacca Strait off Aceh province located in the area of northern Sumatra island on March 12, 2014 during the continued search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The search for a missing Malaysian jet swung northwest towards the Andaman Sea on March 12, far from its intended flight path, exposing Malaysia to mounting criticism that its response was in disarray. (AFP)
 

Relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane receive a cash payment to help with living and travel costs while they wait for news at the Metro Park Lido Hotel in Beijing on March 12, 2014.  Malaysia's air force chief said authorities have not ruled out the possibility a missing airliner inexplicably changed course before losing contact, but denied reports the jet had been detected far from its planned flight path. (AFP)


Malaysia airlines officials assist the relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 plane, during lunch at a restaurant in Beijing on March 12, 2014. Malaysia's air force chief said authorities have not ruled out the possibility a missing airliner inexplicably changed course before losing contact, but denied reports the jet had been detected far from its planned flight path. (AFP)

Day 5

 

Grieving Indonesian mother Suharni (L) displays a portrait of her son Sugianto Lo and wife Vinny Chynthya, who are both passengers of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, from their residence in Medan in Sumatra island on March 10, 2013. Mystery deepened on March 10 over the fate of a Malaysian jet carrying 239 people, as tests on oil slicks scotched suspicions it was aircraft fuel while the search for debris failed to yield any trace of the missing aircraft. (AFP)

 

Heavily armed Philippine anti-terrorist police (L) patrol around Manila's International Airport terminal on March 11, 2014. Revelations that at least two people used stolen passports to board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which went missing early on March 8 with 239 people on board after taking off from Kuala Lumpur's international airport, have fuelled fears of a security breach, raising concerns across the region. (AFP)

 

Family members of passengers aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vote to set a deadline for the company to answer their requests, including providing solatium without additional conditions, at a hotel in Beijing, March 11, 2014. China urged Malaysia to step up the search for a Malaysia Airlines jetliner that went missing with 239 people on board, about two-thirds of them Chinese, and said it has sent security agents to help with an investigation into the misuse of passports. (REUTERS)

Women put the final touches to a sign of support and hope for the passengers of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 they made and brought to the Kuala Lumpur International Airport March 11, 2014. The Malaysian military believes an airliner missing for almost four days with 239 people on board flew for more than an hour after vanishing from air traffic control screens, changing course and travelling west over the Strait of Malacca, a senior military source said. (REUTERS)

Day 4

 

Relatives of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane hug each other at a hotel in Beijing, Monday, March 10, 2014. The anguished hours had turned into a day and a half. Fed up with awaiting word on the missing plane, relatives of passengers in Beijing lashed out at the carrier with a handwritten ultimatum and an impromptu news conference. (AP)


Malaysian ethnic Chinese sing songs as they hold a candlelight vigil for the passengers of Malaysia Airlines MH370 near Independence Square in Kuala Lumpur March 10, 2014. The disappearance of a Malaysian airliner about an hour into a flight to Beijing is an "unprecedented mystery", the civil aviation chief said on Monday, as a massive air and sea search now in its third day failed to find any trace of the plane or 239 people on board. (REUTERS)


A Chinese relative of a passenger of Malaysia Airlines MH370 is comforted by a staff member of the airport as she shields her face from journalists at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang March 10, 2014. The disappearance of a Malaysian airliner about an hour into a flight to Beijing is an "unprecedented mystery", the civil aviation chief said on Monday, as a massive air and sea search now in its third day failed to find any trace of the plane or 239 people on board. (REUTERS)

Relatives of a passenger onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cry inside a hotel they are staying, in Putrajaya March 10, 2014. China urged Malaysia to step up the search for a Malaysia Airlines jetliner that went missing with 239 people on board, about two-thirds of them Chinese, and said it has sent security agents to help with an investigation into the misuse of passports. (REUTERS)


An upset relative of a passenger of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is led away after approaching officials for information at a hotel in Putrajaya March 9, 2014. The flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday, after losing contact with air traffic controllers off the eastern Malaysia coast. (REUTERS)


Rosmah Mansor (L), wife of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, cries with family members of passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, at a hotel in Putrajaya March 9, 2014. Radar tracking the missing Malaysia Airlines flight indicated that it may have turned back from its scheduled route to Beijing before disappearing, and Malaysian rescue teams have expanded their search to the country's western coast, Malaysian military officials said on Sunday. (REUTERS)


A relative (L) of a passenger of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is escorted by a caregiver from Malaysia Airlines as they walk in a corridor at a hotel in Beijing, March 9, 2014. The flight, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday. (REUTERS)

Day 3

Relatives of Chinese passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane arrive at the Exit and Entry Administration of the Public Security Bureau, a police department in charge of issuing passports in Beijing, China, Sunday, March 9, 2014. (AP)


Chinese relatives of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane are leaving a hotel for relatives or friends of passengers aboard the missing airplane to apply for passport in Beijing, China Sunday, March 9, 2014. Planes and ships from across Asia resumed the hunt Sunday for a Malaysian jetliner missing with 239 people on board for more than 24 hours, while Malaysian aviation authorities investigated how two passengers were apparently able to get on the aircraft using stolen passports. (AP)


Family members of passengers aboard a missing plane cry at a hotel in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Sunday, March 9, 2014. Military radar indicates that the missing Boeing 777 jet may have turned back before vanishing, Malaysia's air force chief said Sunday as authorities were investigating up to four passengers with suspicious identifications. (AP)


A Malaysian Muslim woman offers a special prayer for passengers aboard a missing plane, at a mosque in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Sunday, March 9, 2014. Military radar indicates that the missing Boeing 777 jet may have turned back before vanishing, Malaysia's air force chief said Sunday as authorities were investigating up to four passengers with suspicious identifications. (AP)


A Malaysian Muslim woman cries as she offers a special prayer for passengers aboard a missing plane, at a mosque in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Sunday, March 9, 2014. Military radar indicates that the missing Boeing 777 jet may have turned back before vanishing, Malaysia's air force chief said Sunday as authorities were investigating up to four passengers with suspicious identifications. (AP)


Chinese relatives of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane wait outside a hotel in Beijing Sunday, March 9, 2014. More than a day and a half has passed since the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 jet disappeared from radar contact in the first hour of a six-hour flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to China’s capital. From France to Australia and China, families and friends are enduring an agonizing wait for news about flight MH370. (AP)

 

Day 2

Family members of those onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 walk to their car outside a hotel in Putrajaya March 9, 2014. A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday, and European officials said two people on board were using false identities. (REUTERS)
 

Family members of those onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight walk to their hotel in Putrajaya March 9, 2014. A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday, and European officials said two people on board were using false identities.   (REUTERS)

 

A relative of a passenger of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cries as she walks past journalists at a hotel in Beijing March 9, 2014. The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER aircraft carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday, and European officials said two people on board were using false identities. (REUTERS)


Family members of those onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cry at a hotel in Putrajaya March 9, 2014. Malaysia Airlines said on Sunday it now feared the worst for its missing plane carrying 239 people, more than a day after it went missing, and was working with a U.S. company that specializes in disaster recovery. (REUTERS)

 

A relative (front) of a passenger of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cries as she walks past journalists at a hotel in Beijing March 9, 2014. The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER aircraft carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday, and European officials said two people on board were using false identities. (REUTERS)

 

Family members look at a wedding album of Norliakmar Hamid (R, in veil) and Razahan Zamani, passengers on a missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane in Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014. Malaysia and Vietnam on March 8 led a search for a Malaysia Airlines jet that has gone missing over Southeast Asia, as fears mounted over the fate of the 239 people aboard.  (AFP)

 

Day 1

Sarah Nor, 55, the mother of 34-year-old Norliakmar Hamid, a passenger on a missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane, talks on a mobile phone at her house in Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014. Malaysia and Vietnam on March 8 led a search for a Malaysia Airlines jet that has gone missing over Southeast Asia, as fears mounted over the fate of the 239 people aboard.  (AFP)

 

Medical staff arrive at a hotel meeting room where relatives are being held after news of the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane in Beijing on March 8, 2014.  Malaysia and Vietnam on March 8 led a search for a Malaysia Airlines jet that has gone missing over Southeast Asia, as fears mounted over the fate of the 239 people aboard.   (AFP)

 

A man (C) thought to be a relative of a passenger of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight walks through a group of reporrters at a hotel in Beijing on March 8, 2014.  Rescuers from several nations mounted an air and sea search on March 8 for a Malaysia Airlines jet that has gone missing over Southeast Asia, with grave fears for the 239 people on board. (AFP)

 

Family members of those onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 walk into the waiting area at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang March 8, 2014. The flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew went missing over the South China Sea on Saturday, presumed crashed, as ships from countries closest to its flight path scoured a large search area for any wreckage. Vietnamese state media, quoting a senior naval official, had reported that the Boeing 777-200ER flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing had crashed off south Vietnam, but Malaysia's transport minister later denied any crash scene had been identified.  (Reuters)

 

A woman breaks down while leaving the reception centre for families and friends after an airliner went missing at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 8, 2014. Malaysia and Vietnam on March 8 led a search for a Malaysia Airlines jet that has gone missing over Southeast Asia, as fears mounted over the fate of the 239 people aboard.  (AFP)

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Showbiz good, bad, crazy: Simon Cowell, Lady Gaga, Pamela Anderson

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Simon Cowell buys Aston Martin pram: Simon Cowell has spent £2,000 on an Aston Martin pram for his baby boy Eric, based on the car manufacturer's flashy £1.2 million One-77 model.

Lady Gaga admits bankruptcy during early career: Lady Gaga admits she suffered financial difficulty after she invested her entire $3 million dollar fortune into staging at her concerts in a bid to launch her pop career.

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Johnny Depp and Amber Heard host engagement party: Johnny Depp and Amber Heard celebrated their impending nuptials by throwing an intimate bash with their closest family and friends in Los Angeles.

Pamela Anderson kids happy she wed Rick Salomon: Pamela Anderson has always been "extremely careful" about the men she introduces to her kids, but they are forming a budding relationship with their new stepfather Rick Salomon.

I love my mum: Tom Cruise's son Connor on Nicole Kidman

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Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman’s son Connor has denied rumours suggesting he is estranged from his mother. The 19-year-old was quoted by told Woman's Day saying that their relationship is 'solid'. "I don’t care what people say. I know that me and mum are solid. I love her a lot. My family means everything," he told the magazine.

Connor Cruise posted this image of himself on his Instagram page.

DJ Connor Cruise, son of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman attends the Emirates marquee during Stakes Day at Flemington Racecourse on November 9, 2013 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Nicole Kidman and her son Connor attend a game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Miami Heat at the Staples Center December 25, 2004 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Getty Images)

Nicole Kidman sits with her son, Connor Antony, during the 2003 Presentation of the 18th Annual American Cinematheque Award honoring Nicole Kidman at the Beverly Hilton November 14, 2003 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Getty Images)

Indian TV stars in riot of colour for Holi

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Popular soap stars of COLORS channel painted the town red during the Indian festival Holi.

Bollywood star Sunny Leone who was also a part of the celebrations shook a leg with the actors.


Mrunal Jain(Akash), Jai Soni(Jai), Gunjan Utreja(Abhay Kapoor)


Tesjasvi Welingkar(Dhara) and Toral( Anandi)

 

Aruna Irani (Baa),  Gunjan Utreja(Abhay Kapoor) and Smita Bansal(Sumitra)

 

Tejasvi Welingkar(Dhara), Gaurav Chopraa(Rathore), Rashmi Desai(Tapasiya), Ajay Chaudhary(Vishnu) and Sreejita De (Mukta)

Gunjan (Nafisa), Suchitra Pillai (Surriya) and Shefali Sharma (Bani)

Sanaya Irani (Paro) and Rashmi Desai (Tapasiya)

Advik Mahajan (Soham), Neha Bagga (Rajji), Gaurav Chaudhray (Parmeet), Shefali Sharma (Bani)

Dhrasti Dhami (Madhu) and Gunjan Utreja ( Abhay Kapoor)


Manish (Siddhant) and Avika Gor (Roli)

 Bollywood actor Sunny Leone

 

 

 

LFW Grand Finale: Shilpa Shetty, Ayesha Khanna and Samita Shetty

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Shilpa Shetty poses as she arrives to attend The Grand Finale of Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) summer/resort 2014. (AFP)

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Shilpa Shetty, Ayesha Khanna and Samita Shetty pose as they arrive to attend The Grand Finale of Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) summer/resort 2014 in Mumbai. (AFP)

Samita Shetty (AFP)

Esha Deol (R) and her husband, Bharat Takhtani pose as they arrive to attend The Grand Finale of Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) summer/resort 2014 in Mumbai. (AFP)

Shilpa Shetty, Ayesha Khanna and Samita Shetty (AFP)

Hollywood Walk of Fame: Kate Winslet gets a star

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Kate Winslet attends a ceremony honoring her with the 2,520th Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (AFP)

Kate Winslet signs autographs at her star ceremony on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood California. (AFP)

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Kate Winslet is honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California. (AFP)

Kate Winslet's star is seen after she was honored on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood. (AFP)

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Kate Winslet attends a ceremony honoring her with the 2,520th Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (AFP)

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