Grammy Award-winning Colombian singer Shakira in Arizona to protest new immigration law

Two popular singers are in Arizona on Thursday to voice their opposition to the state’s tough new immigration law.Grammy Award-winning Colombian singer Shakira will meet with Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon at City Hall in the evening. Gordon has called the law unconstitutional and has said he may sue on behalf of the city to stop the law from taking effect.

Legendary singer-songwriter Linda Ronstadt will attend a rally that organizers say will draw thousands. Ronstadt grew up in a Mexican-American family in Tucson.

The new law requires police to determine whether a person is in the United States legally. It also requires immigrants to carry their alien registration documents at all times and requires police to question people if there is reason to suspect they’re in the United States illegally.Critics say the law will foster racial profiling.

Christina Applegate is engaged to marry musician Martyn Lenoble

LOS ANGELES Christina Applegate is engaged to marry musician Martyn Lenoble. Applegate’s publicist, Ame Van Iden, said Friday that the couple of two years became betrothed on Valentine’s Day.This will be the second marriage for both the actress and the Dutch rocker. No wedding date has been set.

Applegate’s recent credits include TV’s “Samantha Who?” and the movie “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.” She is set to appear with Drew Barrymore and Justin Long in the film “Going the Distance,” due this summer.Lenoble is a founding member of the rock group Porno for Pyros. (AP)

Heidi Montag believes she should be the next tomb raider

Heidi Montag believes she should be the next tomb raider.After a report broke earlier this week about Megan Fox turning down the opportunity to replace Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, Ms Montag chimed in on Twitter, saying, “I want to be the blonde tomb raider.”

The MTV reality star added, “i’m better with guns then both Angelina and Megan Fox put together!”As previously reported, “The Hills” gal recently filmed a cameo in her first feature film, “Just Go With It,” starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston. In the movie, Montag spoofs her 10 plastic surgery operations.

Japan's Canon Inc said its tender offer for shares in Oce NV has raised

Japan’s Canon Inc (7751.T) said its tender offer for shares in Oce NV (OCEN.AS) has raised its stake in the Dutch printer maker to 84 percent, moving closer to its target of turning Oce into a wholly owned subsidiary.The company plans to continue acquiring Oce shares it has not already owned in the market, a Canon spokesman said.Canon, which competes with Ricoh Co Ltd (7752.T) and Xerox Corp (XRX.N) in copiers and printers, announced its plan last November to buy Oce for 730 million euros to strengthen its product lineup and broaden distribution channels.

It offered 8.6 euros for each Oce share in its tender offer, which ran from January 29 to March 1, bringing Canon’s stake in Oce to 71 percent.Following an additional two-week tender offer period that ended on Friday, Canon’s stake now stands at 84 percent.

Canon’s move comes amid a flurry of acquisitions in the office machine sector, including Ricoh’s purchase of U.S. office gear distributor Ikon Office Solutions and Xerox’s takeover of Global Imaging, as industry consolidation gathers momentum.Oce makes an ideal takeover target as the two companies’ products have little overlap, with the Japanese manufacturer strong in regular office machines and mid- to lower-end production printers while Oce excels in high-end and advertisement-use large-sized printers, Canon has said.Production printers, or digital commercial printers, are used to print large documents such as product manuals and direct mail items quickly and in bulk, and are a fast-growing segment of the global office equipment market.(Reuters)

ANNE Hathaway isn’t afraid to speak her mind

ANNE Hathaway isn’t afraid to speak her mind.And that’s why we all love her!The Devil Wears Prada star who stars opposite Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter in the upcoming movie Alice in Wonderland  apparently spat water at an interviewer who asked her a rather provocative question during a press junket for the Tim Burton flick.

“There are lots of Disney princesses like Lindsay Lohan,” the journalist asked. “Do you think you got the job in Alice because you have never fallen out of a club with no panties on?”Anne couldn’t contain herself, and water came flooding out of her mouth,according to a report in British newspaper The People.Hathaway, 26, has previously insisted she’s not confident enough to fall out of clubs.“You know those girls that, like, go out? I’m just not confident enough to do that,” she said back in 2008.“I’m not the sort of girl that will throw on a short skirt and tease her hair up… Truly, I am a wallflower by nature.”

EMILY Blunt loved working with Benicio del Toro because despite is image as a Hollywood hardman

EMILY Blunt loved working with Benicio del Toro  because despite is image as a Hollywood hardman, the actor’s actually a big softie!The British actress stars opposite del Toro in new movie The Wolfman, and insists his reputation as a tough guy is just an act.“Benicio is awesome to work with,” said Blunt. “He’s a great guy. We had a laugh on the movie. He’s a lot of fun.“He’s a big teddy bear. People don’t know that. He doesn’t like people knowing that.”Emily recently revealed how Benicio pulled down her skirt while they filmed a scene for the movie.

“During the scene where the Wolfman jumps on me and Hugo Weaving and I have to get up, he actually yanked my entire skirt down as I was trying to get up. It was embarrassing,” she said earlier this month.“That was probably the hardest kind of stuff we had to do. I think it’s a combination of that and all the physical parts of those costumes and how restricted they are that is hard.”

SHANGHAI Two prominent schools in China dispute allegations that hacking attacks on Google

SHANGHAI Two prominent schools in China dispute allegations that hacking attacks on Google and other firms originated from them, a report said Saturday.The New York Times reported late Thursday that security investigators traced the hacking to computers at Shanghai Jiaotong University and Lanxiang Vocational School in China.The official Xinhua News Agency cited an unnamed university spokesperson Saturday as saying the allegation against it is baseless, and an official at the vocational school said its investigation found no evidence the attacks originated there.

Li Zixiang, a Communist party official in the Lanxiang school in the eastern Shandong province, said students there are currently on their winter break. He also disputed the Times report that some evidence linked attacks to one computer science class taught by a Ukrainian. “We have never employed any foreign staff,” Xinhua quoted Li as saying.Another official at the vocational school disputed the Times’ report that Lanxiang had close ties to the military.Zhou Hui, director of the school’s general office, told Xinhua that some students had joined the military after school, but it was natural for citizens to do so.

Google revealed Jan. 12 that digital thieves had stolen some of its computer code and tried to break into the accounts of human rights activists opposed to China’s policies. The sophisticated theft also targeted the computers of more than 30 other companies, according to security experts.The digital assault was serious enough to prompt Google to confront China’s government about censorship rules that weed out politically and culturally sensitive topics from search results in the country. Google says it’s prepared to shut down its China-based search engine and the company and the government are still discussing a possible compromise.China has denied involvement in Internet attacks and said in January its anti-hacking policy is transparent and consistent. (AP)

JESSICA Biel has revealed what she expects from on/off beau Justin Timberlake this Valentine’s Day

JESSICA Biel has revealed what she expects from on/off beau Justin Timberlake this Valentine’s Day.The actress says the most romantic moment of her life was when her other half left a trail of rose petals for her to follow.“The most romantic thing someone has ever done is given me flowers — but they left a trail of petals all along the floor leading all the way through the house to other surprises,” she said.“It was so lovely. And a surprise.”Biel recently revealed that she has a girl crush on Julia Roberts, her costar in new movie Valentine’ s Day.“I hear she has a girl crush on me and I definitely have one on her,” said the 27-year-old.“I think she is amazing. Although I did panic for a while because I sent her a text and she didn’t reply for a while. But we’re fine now.”

Washington Post will closing remaining U.S. bureaus

NEW YORK, Nov 24  – The Washington Post (WPO.N) is closing its last U.S. bureaus outside the nation’s capital as the money-losing newspaper retrenches to focus on politics and local news.”At a time of limited resources and increased competitive pressure, it’s necessary to concentrate our journalistic firepower on our central mission of covering Washington and the news, trends and ideas that shape both the region and the country’s politics, policies and government,” the newspaper’s top editor, Marcus Brauchli, wrote in a memo to employees that was obtained by Reuters.

The Post will close its bureaus in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, effective Dec. 31.

The news comes after the Post told several employees at its website that they would be laid off, and follows several rounds of buyouts in recent years.The Post, like nearly every other U.S. newspaper, has been battered by falling advertising revenue and circulation as readers get more news online for free.With a circulation of more than 582,000 copies, the Post is the fifth most read daily newspaper on weekdays, according to figures released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. It is the third most read Sunday paper, with paid circulation of more than 822,000 copies.

During the past four to five decades, it has made a franchise of covering national politics and government from the White House to Capitol Hill.Unlike other big national papers including News Corp’s (NWSA.O) Wall Street Journal, The New York Times (NYT.N) and Gannett’s (GCI.N) USA Today, it limits most of its distribution to the Washington metropolitan area.For a time, the Post and many U.S. newspapers relied on big profits at their parent companies to send reporters on coveted assignments overseas and throughout the United States.

More recently, it has been trying to cut costs as ad sales shrink. It also is facing more competition from new news outlets, most notably Politico.com, run by two former Washington Post reporters, and staffed by plenty of other ex-Post workers.Many U.S. newspapers from The Boston Globe to Tribune Co’s (TRBCQ.PK) Baltimore Sun have closed bureaus around the country and around the world as they try to save money. Many experts say newspapers have a better chance of surviving if they stop trying to cover the world and report more local news.

“We are not a national news organization of record serving a general audience. Nor are we a wire service or a cable channel,” Brauchli told the Post’s media columnist and reporter Howard Kurtz.While none of the Post’s six national reporters at those bureaus will be laid off, three news aides lost their jobs, the memo said.Still, Brauchli wrote, the Post will cover the nation.”We will continue to cover events around the country as we have for decades, by sending reporters into the field,” he wrote.(Reuters)