Aunt Julia’s guy has come of age. Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Prize for literature, with an oeuvre that boasts of funny post-modern gems like Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter to novels like The Time of the Hero, The Green House ,Conversation in the Cathedral, and The Goat. His Captain Pantoja and the Special Service and the side-splitting book Aunt Julia have seen film adaptations.
The Swedish Academy said in its announcements that the luminary of the ‘ Latin American Boom’ was chosen for mapping …

Former ‘Miss Universe’ Dayana Mendoza graced the fund raiser ‘Bailando Por Una Causa’ that’s “Dancing with a Cause” for you. The El Museo del Barrio of New York City staged the event to raise cash to support those afflicted with HIV & AIDS in Hispanic and Latino communities everywhere.
The event is organized every year to boost awareness and this year, tickets were priced at just $25.00 for general admission, with a $50 tag for VIP tickets. Over 300 people gathered for the event graced by beauty Dayana Mendoza, with Carlos …

From the Razzies to the Oscars, Speed-woman Sandra Bullock has come a long way.  She repotedly ousted Angelina Jolie from the hustings when it came to the role of an astronaut trying to reach home from space, in a casting opposite Robert Downey Jr.  in Alfonso Cuarón’s spectacular 3-D space thriller “Gravity.”
If she seals the deal, she would pip pout diva Jolie to the post. The sci-fi thriller movie is tentatively titled for now. Other contenders for the role included Black Swan Natalie Portman, and Woody Allen’s muse Scarlett Johansson, …

Danish tennis sensation Caroline Wozniacki took over the top spot in the WTA rankings, with a win over No. 34 Petra Kvitova in the third round at China Open, being held in Beijing. She dethroned Serena Williams, who has been missing from WTA action, and watched sis Venus at the US open from the VIP box, after a fluke accident injured her foot. Serena is ruing the injury in a restaurant in which she stepped over shards of glass.
Denmark’s 20-year-old Wozniacki accomplished the remarkable feat after a …

Most scientists hold the fact that a Comet could have crashed into the globe leading to the extinct of dinosaurs. This follows three years of scientific debate as to what might have brought about the transformations and wide gaps existing in the said archaeological record, right about the end of the period known as Pleistocene Epoch, spanning from around 1.8 million years ago to about 11,500.
The enigma on the cause of extinction of almost all animals in North America and almost wiped out a people known as the, a group …

In a statement, GM has reported that because power steering fluid might leak leading to engine compartment fire it is recalling about 4,000 SRX Cadillac Crossovers.
The affected vehicles are from its 2010 model and it would be trying to fix problems of power steering that might cause engine fires. General Motors says that it is only aware of a single fire that took place in a Cadillac SRX that was unattended.
However, no injuries or crashes that have been linked to the power steering issue have been reported.
The vehicles being recalled …

The US president, Barack Obama has honored South African’s well-known Desmond Tutu as a moral giant who shall truly be missed after his formal retirement from his active public life on Thursday, as he celebrated his 79th birthday.
The US president said that the South African peace laureate has been a principle voice, dedicated peacemaker and a justice champion and seeker for all.
The retiring Archbishop was very instrumental in the South African apartheid struggle, now abolished, that supported the rule of the white minority. He has been pivotal in advocating for …

As Obama campaigns for Democrats, he is categorical that they might be trending on a self-defeating curve if they sulk and just sit back.
After fundraising for New Jersey’s Democrats, the president is expected to be on his way to Gov. Martin O’Malley rally in Maryland, followed by another fundraising stint in Chicago for Alexi Giannoulias, the one mandated to make sure the old seat of the president does not fall to the hands of GOP.
The seat is one of what Democrats are looking for as they avoid losing the crucial …

Christianity is reported as dwindling in its birthplace in the Middle East, as Pope Benedict convenes the regions catholic bishops towards debating on how the minority communities could be saved while promoting a harmonious existence with their neighbors, mainly Muslims.
Starting on the 10 of October on Sunday, the bishops will convene for two weeks as they discuss the issues affecting the faithful right from the conflict between Israel and Palestinians as well as the Iraq strife to cases of Islamist radicalism, Middle East divisions between most Christian churches and the …

Mario Vargas Llosa, a Peruvian, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature 2010 on Thursday. This was in honor of one of the most acclaimed and respected authors in the Spanish-speaking part of the world, as well as a political activist widely outspoken, once a presidential candidate in his tumultuous nation.
The 74-year-old Vargas Llosa has more than written 30 novels, essays and plays. In 1995, he had taken the most coveted Spanish literary honor: Cervantes Prize.
Since Gabriel Garcia Marquez had won the 10 million Kronor Nobel Prize for Literature in …