Powerful Typhoon Nesat hits Philippines

Kate McGeown reports from the island of Luzon

A powerful typhoon has struck the Philippines, triggering floods and cutting power in the capital Manila and throughout the main island, Luzon.

Typhoon Nesat also forced the closure of the Philippine Stock Exchange and the US embassy, and the ground floor of Manila's main hospital was flooded.

At least seven people have been killed, including several children.

As Nesat approached, the authorities ordered the evacuation of more than 100,000 in central Albay province.

The typhoon is expected to continue slowly across the country, before blowing across the South China Sea towards southern China on Thursday.


Crushed
Nesat made landfall just before dawn on Tuesday in the eastern Isabela and Aurora provinces on the Pacific coast.

The storm - with a diameter of 650km (400 miles) and wind gusts of up to 170km/h (105mph) - is now making its way across Luzon, the BBC's Kate McGeown in the central Luzon province of Zambales reports.

Many roads have been flooded and flights cancelled, and local media are urging people against non-essential travel, our correspondent says.

An adult and three children were crushed to death as a building collapsed in a northern Manila suburb on Tuesday, AFP news agency quoted the Office of Civil Defence as saying.

Two men were said to have died north of the capital in a landslide and weather-induced accident.

There is waist-deep flooding in parts of the capital.



Reporters described huge waves crashing into Manila Bay's seawall, with water overflowing into Roxas Boulevard and flooding streets and parks around the US embassy, which was evacuated.

The ground floor of Manila hospital was flooded, and staff were forced to move patients to the first floor.

"We've heard of Manila Hospital being flooded, but we're struggling to reach the area even though we've co-ordinated with them already to help in an evacuation plan," Philippine National Red Cross secretary general Gwen Pang told AFP.

A five-star hotel was also evacuated, reports said.

Meanwhile, thousands of residents living inland along the Marikana river were evacuated as it threatened to overflow.

Government offices, schools and universities were closed.

In Isabela province, four coastal towns under threat from storm surges have been evacuated.

Four fishermen are missing, and more than 50 more have been rescued after their boats capsized in rough seas.

There are fears that the death toll may rise further.

Late on Monday, the first reported casualty of the typhoon was a baby who fell into a swollen river in the eastern province of Catanduanes.

Tens of thousands of people are being evacuated in Luzon

Earlier, about 110,000 people in several towns of the Albay province were ordered to leave their homes and seek shelter elsewhere.


"We can't manage typhoons, but we can manage their effects," provincial Governor Joey Salceda was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.

The Philippines suffers frequent typhoons, about 20 a year, but Nesat is thought to be the largest this year.

It comes almost exactly two years after Typhoon Ketsana killed more than 400 people.

Russian army ends purchase of Kalashnikov rifles

The Kalashnikov is one of the world's most recognisable guns

The Russian army says it is halting orders of the famous Kalashnikov assault rifle until a newer model is developed by its manufacturer.

Chief of the General Staff Nikolai Makarov told Russian media that the army already had too many of the weapons in its stores.

A new model is expected to be ready by the end of the year.

News of the army's decision is reportedly being kept from the rifle's designer, Mikhail Kalashnikov, now 91.

"We do not want to take it upon ourselves to tell him," an unnamed member of his family told Russia's Izvestia newspaper.

"It might kill him."

'Too many'
The Kalashnikov, instantly recognisable, renowned for its ruggedness and regarded by some as a design classic, is said to be the world's most heavily produced rifle.

In service in Russia since the 1940s, it has been copied by manufacturers across the world.

It has gone through several versions, from the original AK-47 - the AK stands for "Kalashnikov automatic" - to the AKM and latterly, the AK-74.

Gen Makarov said stocks of the rifle exceeded the army's needs "several times over".

A spokesman for the rifle's developer, the Izhmash plant in central Russia, told Izvestia newspaper that a new model would be ready for demonstration by the end of the year.

The plant would seek to increase exports and step up hunting rifle production in the meantime, the representative added.

Greece prime minister makes plea for German support

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has delivered an impassioned plea to German business leaders to help his country out of its current debt crisis.

Mr Papandreou said German funding would not be an investment in past failures, but in future successes.

He also hailed Greece's "superhuman" efforts to cut its debt levels.

The prime minister is in Germany for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss his country's progress in cutting its budget deficit.

Mr Papandreou said the current debt crisis provided a "unique opportunity to launch important reforms that Greece badly needs to become competitive again".

Drawing parallels with the reunification of Germany, he talked of the "rebirth of a nation".

"Your contribution can be crucial," he told the assembled businessmen and women.

Mr Papandreou said that in 2010 Greece had overseen the "largest fiscal consolidation in a single year [of any eurozone member]" in reducing its budget deficit by five percentage points.
By 2012, he said, the country would see a budget surplus.

The public sector in Greece had been a "major obstacle to growth, but very soon that won't be the case... we will fight our way back to growth and prosperity", he added.

Mrs Merkel responded by saying that "we respect what Greece has done in terms of structural changes. We all wish to strengthen Greece".

Mr Papandreou's visit to Germany comes as policymakers decide whether to release the latest tranche of Greek bailout funds.

The European Commission, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are due in Athens this week to review Greece's progress in cutting its debt levels.

Together, they will decide on whether to release the latest tranche of bailout funds the Greek government needs to pay its bills.

Ahead of the visit, Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos said that his country would receive the funds next month.

More importantly, Mr Papandreou has an eye on a key vote in Germany later this week on whether to expand the powers of the eurozone bailout fund. There is a good deal of opposition in Germany to what many people there see as underwriting the entire bloc.

'Wrong idea'
Mrs Merkel, speaking to the same business leaders, said further stimulus packages were not the answer to the current debt crisis.
"We need to combine economic growth with solid public finances," the chancellor said.

"The idea that you need to boost growth by taking on ever greater debt is the wrong idea. I am deeply convinced of that."

She also dismissed the idea of issuing bonds backed by all 17 members of the eurozone - so-called eurobonds - because their adoption would result in what she called a union of debt.

European leaders are trying to agree a comprehensive package to solve the eurozone debt crisis once and for all.

However, divisions remain between member states on how best to do so.

G20 leaders met over the weekend to discuss the best way forward, but EU officials stressed that no grand plan of action had been agreed.

A number of ideas were reportedly discussed, including a 50% write-down of Greece's government debts.

Other proposals included strengthening big European banks that could be hit by any defaults on national debt obligations, and boosting the size of the eurozone bailout fund.

However, late on Monday German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble cast doubt on plans to bolster the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF).

"We are giving it the tools so it can work if necessary," he said.

"Then we will use it effectively, but we do not have the intention of boosting its volume."

On Thursday, Germany will vote on whether to approve proposals set out in July to extend the powers of the EFSF that would allow it to buy the bonds of highly-indebted countries, and to make credit available to both governments and under-capitalised banks.

'Brutal selling'
Despite Mr Schaeuble's comments, European and Asian shares rallied strongly on hopes that leaders were finally poised to act decisively.

Germany's Dax and France's Cac 40 indexes were up about 4% in early afternoon trading, while the UK's FTSE 100 was 3% higher.

Japan's Nikkei index closed up 2.8%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng rose 4.2% and South Korea's Kospi climbed 5%.

However, analysts warned the gains could be short lived.

"We've experienced these types of temporary rebounds many times before, with markets coming up for air after days of brutal selling," said Kazuhiro Takahashi at Daiwa Securities.

"Again, this will likely be a short break before we see more evidence of progress in the Greek debt crisis," he said.

Markets have been extremely volatile in recent weeks as investors worry that the debt crisis may spiral out of control. They have been critical of policymakers' inability to take decisive action thus far.

On Monday, President Barack Obama also warned of the far-reaching impact of the crisis.

"[Europe] never fully dealt with all the challenges that their banking system faced... So they're now going through a financial crisis that is scaring the world," he said.

"It's now being compounded by what's happening in Greece."

Why young Christians aren't waiting anymore

True love doesn’t wait after all.

That’s the implication in the upcoming October issue of an evangelical magazine that claims that young, unmarried Christians are having premarital sex almost as much as their non-Christian peers.

The article in Relevant magazine, entitled “(Almost) Everyone’s Doing It,” cited several studies examining the sexual activity of single Christians. One of the biggest surprises was a December 2009 study, conducted by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, which included information on sexual activity.

While the study’s primary report did not explore religion, some additional analysis focusing on sexual activity and religious identification yielded this result: 80 percent of unmarried evangelical young adults (18 to 29) said that they have had sex - slightly less than 88 percent of unmarried adults, according to the teen pregnancy prevention organization.

The article highlights what challenges abstinence movements face. Movements such as “True Love Waits,” encourage teens to wear purity rings, sign virginity pledges and pledge chastity during public ceremonies.

Yet many of these Christian youths eventually abandon their purity pledges, Relevant’s Tyler Charles concludes in the article. Tyler talked to people like “Maria,” an evangelical woman who said she wanted to wait until marriage to have sex.

But she said she started having sex with her college boyfriend when she turned 20 because nearly everyone, even most of her Christian friends, were having sex.

Maria:

It seemed everyone in my life, older and younger, had “done it.” In fact, I waited longer than most people I knew and longer than both of my sisters, even though we were all Christians and came from a good home.

Relevant theorizes about why it’s so hard for so many young Christians to wait, including the saturation of sex in popular culture, the prevalence of pornography and a popular “do what feels good philosophy.”

Yet the article also asks a question that rarely comes up in discussions about abstinence movement. Relevant notes that in biblical times, people married earlier. The average age for marriage has been increasing in the U.S for the last 40 years.

Today, it’s not unusual to meet a Christian who is single at 30 - or 40 or 50, for that matter. So what do you tell them? Keep waiting?

Scot McKnight, co-author of “The Jesus Creed,” acknowledges that young, single Christians face temptations that their counterparts in the biblical age didn’t face.

He tells Relevant:

Sociologically speaking, the one big difference – and it’s monstrous – between the biblical teaching and our culture is the arranged marriages of very young people. If you get married when you’re 13, you don’t have 15 years of temptation.

So what should a Christian parent or youth pastor do? How do they convince more young Christians to wait until marriage, or should they stop even trying?

Engineers to rappel down Washington Monument

It may look like an action movie being shot on the National Mall Tuesday, but in fact it will be engineers at work, rappelling down the sides of the Washington Monument, looking for damage caused by the August earthquake.
The National Park Service announced Monday that experts have completed an interior assessment of the monument and found it to be structurally sound.
"The heaviest damage appears to be concentrated at the very top of the monument, in what is called the pyramidion, where large cracks of up to 1 1/4 inch wide developed through stone and mortar joints," said Bob Vogel, superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks. Daylight is visible through some of the cracks, and a substantial amount of rain water has gotten into the monument, which could cause further damage.


To get a closer look at the outside of the structure, architect/engineer/rappellers from the firm of Wiss, Janney and Elstner, the architectural firm hired by the National Park Service, will scale the outside of the structure to get a closer look.
Their "difficult-access team will install climbing ropes and safety lines on all four sides of the monument, then clip on to those lines and exit the monument from the windows at the observation level," Vogel said. Weather permitting, they will climb up the pyramidion and then descend the length of the monument looking for exterior damage.
On Monday, the National Park Service put on its web page dramatic video of the interior of the monument when the earthquake took place. It shows park rangers and tourists rushing down the stairs as debris falls on the observation deck.
Once the exterior assessment is complete in the next few weeks, the Park Service expects to come up with a timeline to reopen the monument to the public.
The Washington Monument, built between 1848 and 1884, is 555 feet, 5 1/8 inches tall. Its walls are 15 feet thick at the base and 18 inches at the top, and are composed primarily of white marble blocks, according to the National Park Service.
"The monument is structurally sound and is not going anywhere," Vogel said. "It is a testament to the original builders that the monument has withstood not just this earthquake, but an even larger one in the late 1800s."

Senate reaches bipartisan agreement on disaster funds

The Senate on Monday night reached a bipartisan agreement intended to end a dispute over disaster relief spending that threatened to cause a partial shutdown of the government at the end of the week.
In two votes, the Senate approved short-term spending measures to fund the government for the first seven weeks of the new fiscal year that begins Saturday.
It passed the first measure on a 79-12 vote, then approved the second measure on a voice vote.
The measures now go to the House, which must approve them to ensure the government continues to be funded after the end of the current fiscal year at midnight Friday.
House Republicans scheduled a conference call for later Monday night to discuss their next steps.
The spending proposals contain additional disaster relief money needed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to refill depleted coffers.
However, the emergency disaster funding only applies to the new fiscal year beginning Saturday, after FEMA indicated that it had enough money left to get through the rest of the current fiscal year.
Democrats and Republicans were at an impasse over a GOP demand to cut spending elsewhere to offset any increased disaster relief funding in the current fiscal year.
A FEMA statement Monday said updated estimates showed that the agency's Disaster Relief Fund has about $114 million left that "could be fully exhausted by the end of the week." Previous estimates had the money running out as soon as Tuesday or Wednesday.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, said White House budget director Jack Lew told him that FEMA's funding will last through the rest of the current fiscal year.
Reid and other Senate Democrats depicted the agreement as a victory over House Republicans who they said had needlessly held up the disaster relief funding by demanding unprecedented spending offsets for emergency aid.
"It is hard to see how the House Republicans could reject this proposal," said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, noting the strong bipartisan vote in the Senate.
Last week, the Republican-led House passed a short-term spending measure for the first seven weeks of the new fiscal year that includes increased disaster relief funds in the wake of Hurricane Irene, Tropical Storm Lee, wildfires and tornadoes this year.
Under the House measure, called a continuing resolution, FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers would get more disaster relief funds for the end of the current fiscal year and the start of the new fiscal year.
However, Democrats opposed a provision in the House measure that cut other spending to offset some of the additional emergency aid for the rest of the current fiscal year.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, speaking before Monday night's votes, said the political impasse could have been avoided if Senate Democrats had accepted the House version.
Schumer and other Democrats said the agreement passed by the Senate avoided setting what they called a dangerous precedent of subjecting disaster relief to political wrangling.
"It was the wrong precedent to set, one that would have jeopardized emergency funding in the future," Schumer said.
According to a Senate Democratic leadership aide, the opening for a breakthrough came when FEMA indicated it had enough money for the rest of the current fiscal year.
The dispute threatened to prevent the continuing resolution from passing by the end of the fiscal year, which could have caused a partial government shutdown.
With FEMA able to make it through the rest of the fiscal year, Senate Democrats worked out the agreement with Republicans to pass the funding measures that would keep the government operating through November 18 and provide the needed additional disaster relief money without any corresponding spending cuts.
One measure extended government funding for one week, through October 4, to ensure that there is no gap when the current fiscal year ends Friday. A second continued the extended government funding through November 18.
The two measures were needed because the House is in virtual recess this week with members back in their home districts and the chamber convening in "pro forma" sessions with minimal participation.
Under the plan, the House will be able to approve the shorter of the two measures -- to continue funding through October 4 -- in a pro forma session this week and then vote on the longer measure when members return the following week.
House members went home for the week after passing the short-term spending bill on Friday.
If Congress fails to approve a compromise version this week, a partial government shutdown could occur when the fiscal year ends at midnight Friday. It is the third time in six months that legislators have faced such a possibility.
Republicans want less disaster aid than their Democratic counterparts and want to pay for it partly by cutting funding for programs designed to spur clean energy innovation.
Democrats contend that the Republicans are playing politics by seeking to offset disaster relief spending that helps Americans in immediate need of help to put their lives back together.
The House GOP legislation included $3.65 billion in new disaster relief funding: $1 billion in emergency money for the current fiscal year and roughly $2.6 billion to be budgeted for those federal response agencies for the 2012 fiscal year that begins October 1.
Under the House bill, the $1 billion in immediate disaster funding is offset with $1.5 billion in cuts to a loan program that helps automakers retool their operations to make more fuel-efficient cars.
Another $100 million would be cut from an alternative energy loan program that provided funding for the solar panel firm Solyndra, a company that declared bankruptcy late last month despite receiving a $535 million federal guarantee in 2009.
The Senate measures passed Monday night set the new disaster relief funding at $2.65 billion, all in the new fiscal year beginning Saturday, with no offsets.
Meanwhile, Congress will continue working on appropriations bills for the rest of the new fiscal year that will contain additional disaster relief funding for FEMA. Asked Monday night if House Republicans might try to offset that spending again, Reid responded it would be a bad idea.
"I can't imagine they would try it again," he told reporters. "I don't think this has been a very happy week for ... Republicans in the House."
Last week, the Senate passed a spending bill with bipartisan support that would provide $6.9 billion for FEMA and other federal agencies, to be used for disaster relief both immediately and in the new fiscal year. That Senate version required no spending offsets.

Lawyer: Knox is no femme fatale

Amanda Knox attends her appeal hearing on Monday in the city of Perugia, Italy.

Amanda Knox is not the "femme fatale" the media has painted her as, a lawyer for her co-defendant argued Tuesday, urging a jury to acquit Knox and Rafaelle Sollecito of murdering Meredith Kercher.
Lawyer Giulia Buongiorno compared Knox to the voluptuous cartoon character Jessica Rabbit, who protests, "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way," in the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
Buongiorno, who represents Sollecito -- Knox's former boyfriend -- said the whole trial was based on DNA evidence "on which mistakes were made," and urged the jury to "abandon imagined fantasies" and acquit the pair.
Knox and Sollecito are fighting their conviction for killing Kercher -- Knox's roommate -- in Perugia, Italy, in 2007. Knox and Sollecito were convicted in 2009. Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison, while Sollecito got 25.
As she began her closing arguments Tuesday, Buongiorno said there was no physical trace of Knox or Sollecito in the room where Kercher was found murdered.
"The room speaks only of Rudy" Guede, the other man convicted separately of killing Kercher, Buongiorno told the jury.
Knox and Sollecito's defense teams have suggested Guede, who is already serving a 16-year sentence for the murder, could have been the sole killer.
Evidence that Guede was in the room shows that "no one could enter that room and not leave any trace," said Buongiorno, who represents Sollecito.
She urged the jury to think about her client as they made their decision.
"The lives of this kid and his parents have been destroyed. You must today evaluate if - if - if these kids committed the crime," Buongiorno told jurors.
Buongiorno, one the highest-profile lawyers in Italy, attacked media coverage of the trial as sensational, saying it could have affected what witnesses told the court.
She rejected the notion that Knox and Sollecito were into violent sex, saying they rubbed noses in "Eskimo kisses."
The lawyer also attacked the circumstances under which Knox was interrogated by police the night of the murder, saying she was interrogated by "hostile" officers, which made it impossible to trust what she said that night.
"If one is not calm, anything can happen," Buongiorno argued.
And she hammered home attacks on DNA evidence that have been a key part of the appeal.
She said police could have contaminated the crime scene or the evidence, playing video from the police investigation itself to make her point.
Knox and Sollecito are appealing the convictions together, having been convicted in a joint trial.
Both defendants were in court Tuesday, with Knox in a long-sleeved pink sweater and Sollecito in a long-sleeved prune-colored shirt. Their parents were in court as well.
On Monday, the lawyer for Kercher's family showed photos of the British murder victim's bloodied body, pointing out multiple stab wounds. He urged the Italian jury not to overturn Knox and Sollecito's convictions.
"I show you these pictures to show you the pain of Meredith," Francesco Maresca said.
"She didn't have defensive wounds. It means that she was tied up, that she had more than one aggressor," the lawyer said.
"Given the type, number and locations of the wounds, there had to be multiple attackers," he insisted, rejecting the defense theory that Guede acted alone.
He attacked as "useless" a review of DNA evidence that may cast doubt on the original convictions.
Knox avoided looking at the photographs of Kercher's body as they were shown.
Lawyers for the civil suits related to the case presented their closing arguments Monday.
At the hearing, another lawyer called Knox two-faced and "diabolical."
"Within her lives a double soul: one which is angelic, good, compassionate ... tender and ingenuous," Carlo Pacelli said.
But she had another side, he said: "A Lucifer-like, demonic, satanic, diabolical one which sometimes leads her to borderline and dissolute behavior," saying that was the Knox who had killed her roommate.
Pacelli sought to portray Knox as sexually promiscuous and a difficult roommate as he fights for damages for his client, Patrick Lumumba.
Knox accused Lumumba of the murder in 2007. He was arrested but released after his alibi checked out. He later sued Knox for libel, winning 40,000 euros ($54,000) in damages.
Defense attorneys for Knox are expected to present their final arguments Thursday.

Ktrina Kaif

Ktrina Kaif

Ktrina Kaif

Katrina Kaif(India)
Background 

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Name:                  Katrina Kaif

Born:              16 July 1984 (age 27) Hong Kong

Nationality:    British

Ethnicity :      British Indian

Occupation:   Model, Actress

Years active:  2003 – present

Katrina Kaif (born 16 July 1984 is a British Indian extra and above archetypal who appears in Indian films, mainly in the Hindi-language blur industry. She has aswell appeared in Telugu and Malayalam films. She was voted the sexiest Asian woman in the apple by Eastern Eye in the years 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. Being a British citizen, she works in India on an application visa.


Kaif fabricated her acting admission with Kaizad Gustad's box appointment bomb Boom. She tasted success in 2007 with Vipul Shah's Namastey London and Anees Bazmee's Welcome. She has back appeared in films like New York (2009) and Rajneeti (2010). While the above becoming Kaif her aboriginal Filmfare Award for Best Extra nomination, the closing emerged as her better bartering success so far.


Career
Modeling and aboriginal blur career (1998-2004)


Kaif began her clay career at age fourteen; her aboriginal appointment was for a adornment campaign. She connected clay in London beneath a arrangement with the Models 1 Agency and did campaigns for houses such as La Senza and Arcadius, and even absolved on the London Fashion Week.
Kaif's clay plan led to her analysis by London-based filmmaker Kaizad Gustad, who gave her a allotment in his blur Boom (2003). The film, which starred Amitabh Bachchan and Gulshan Grover, bootless to accomplish an impact. She again confused to Mumbai and was offered a amount of clay assignments, but filmmakers were afraid to casting Kaif due to her poor command of Hindi.


Breakthrough (2005-2006)
In 2005, Kaif fabricated a adornment in Ram Gopal Verma's ball Sarkar, as Abhishek Bachchan's girlfriend. The aforementioned year, she landed her aboriginal above role in David Dhawan's adjustment of Cactus Flower, Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya, area she was commutual adverse Salman Khan. The blur aswell featured Sushmita Sen, Arshad Warsi, Isha Koppikar and Sohail Khan in advance roles. Upon release, the blur became a abstinent success with Taran Adarsh, a arresting blur critic, praising Kaif as a "complete revelation".The afterward year, she was commutual adverse Akshay Kumar for the aboriginal time in Raj Kanwar's box-office bomb Humko Deewana Kar Gaye. However, for her assuming of Jia A. Yashvardhan, Adarsh wrote, "Taking behemothic strides as an actor, Katrina is, afterwards doubt, the brilliant of the show. It's her alluring attendance and dependable achievement that you backpack home already the appearance has ended.


Success (2007- present)


In 2007, Kaif appeared in four films, all of which were acknowledged at the box office. Her aboriginal absolution was Vipul Shah's romantic-comedy Namastey London. Kaif portrayed the appearance of a British Indian babe called Jasmeet "Jazz" Malhotra, alongside Rishi Kapoor, Akshay Kumar and Clive Standen. Upon its release, the blur became a above hit, with Nikhat Kazmi, of the The Times Of India praising the allure amid the arch couple. She next played a acknowledging role in Anil Sharma's activity Apne. Featuring Dharmendra, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Kirron Kher and Shilpa Shetty, the blur was a box-office hit.


Her next absolution was David Dhawan's actionable accommodate of Hitch, Partner, area she starred alongside Salman Khan, Govinda, and Lara Dutta. This too was box-office success. Her final blur of 2007, Welcome, directed by Anees Bazmee and co-starring Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal and Anil Kapoor, was declared a blockbuster in India. admitting abrogating reviews.
Her aboriginal absolution of 2008 was Abbas-Mustan's hit action-thriller Race; she played Saif Ali Khan's secretary, Sophia, who is secretly in adulation with his adverse stepbrother (played by Akshay Khanna). The blur aswell featured Anil Kapoor, Bipasha Basu and Sameera Reddy in arch roles. Admitting its success, Kazmi wrote, "Katrina is too anemic as the blousy secretary who comes into her own alone if she gets alluring with a Touch me, kiss me tenor. "


Kaif was next apparent in Anees Bazmee's activity ball Singh Is Kinng, assuming Akshay Kumar's adulation absorption and Ranvir Shorey's fiancée. Afterwards its release, the blur was declared a blockbuster, authoritative it Kaif's sixth afterwards success at the box office. The cine aswell emerged as the third accomplished grossing blur of 2008. Kaif's final absolution of the year, Subhash Ghai's Yuvvraaj, was a bartering failure, but its Software fabricated its way into the Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for aesthetic merit, aboriginal cine with a substance, and the blur as a whole.


Kaif's aboriginal absolution for 2009 was Kabir Khan's agitation ball New York, with John Abraham and Neil Nitin Mukesh. It was a analytical and bartering success in both India and overseas. Kaif's achievement was awful praised: Taran Adarsh wrote, "Katrina gives you the better surprise. Accepted for her allure roles, Katrina proves that she can bear if the administrator and biographer action her a role of substance. She's outstanding. In fact, humans will see a new, altered Katrina this time. For her performance, Kaif accustomed her aboriginal choice in the Filmfare Award for Best Extra category.


She next had a adornment in the star-studded action-thriller Blue, bargain accepted as India's aboriginal underwater thriller, with Akshay Kumar and Zayed Khan. However, it was declared a flop.


In November 2009, she appeared forth with Ranbir Kapoor, in Rajkumar Santoshi's blockbuster ball Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani, as Jennifer Pinto. Critics mostly accepted her beginning allure with Kapoor rather than her own performance. Her final absolution that year was Priyadarshan's star-studded De Dana Dan with Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty, Paresh Rawal and Neha Dhupia. Admitting a acceptable opening, the blur bootless to do able-bodied at the box office.
Kaif's aboriginal blur of 2010 was Prakash Jha's political abstruseness Raajneeti, area she appeared adverse Ranbir Kapoor and Arjun Rampal. The blur is a modern-day adjustment of The Mahabharata set adjoin the political accomplishments of Delhi. Nana Patekar, Manoj Bajpai and Shruti Seth aswell played starring roles. Upon release, the blur performed acutely able-bodied at the box office, and becoming Kaif favourable reviews for her assuming of the activating Indu Sakseria.


Her endure absolution was Farah Khan's addled ball Tees Maar Khan with Akshay Kumar. The blur was appear on 24 December 2010. The blur accustomed mainly abrogating reviews and was declared a flop. However, Kaif's account amount Sheila Ki Jawani became a above chartbuster.


On 15 July 2011, she was apparent alongside Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar, Abhay Deol and Kalki Koechlin in Zoya Akhtar's alley chance Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. which was a analytical and bartering success. Kaif was aswell accepted for her assuming of alert diving adviser Laila. Taran Adarsh wrote, "Katrina is a revelation...the extra continues to abruptness you with her performances in blur afterwards film." Her endure absolution of 2011 was Yash Raj Films's Mere Brother Ki Dulhan adverse Imran Khan and Ali Zafar. The blur was acknowledged at the box office, and becoming Kaif babble reviews for her assuming of active punk-rock babe Dimple Dixit, with Rahul Gangwani adage "the blur ultimately belongs to Katrina Kaif. She sparkles, sizzles and infuses activity into the film."

Demi Lovato

Demi Lovato