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  • Adriana Lima and Doutzen Kroes get Physical for V Magazine

    Could they be fighting over who gets to wear the prettiest bra? Or who gets the most close-ups and magazine covers? Whatever anger they're channeling, a cat fight has never looked as glamorous as these pictures of Adriana Lima and Doutzen Kroes.

    The Victoria's Secret models are pitted against one another in the latest edition of V Magazine.

    In pictures taken by photographer Mario Testino, the women go to battle in fish nets, heels... and not much else.

    The magazine said the sport theme for their spring edition was a natural choice with the London 2012 Olympics taking place this summer.

    "We wanted to pay homage to these incredible icons past and present with our own Fashion Olympics. The talents who grace these pages face challenges, obstacles, victory, and defeat in an open forum almost every day," they state

    Sheriff Arpaio: Obama Birth Certificate a ‘forgery’

    Armed with a new 10-page report he commissioned, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Thursday he suspects the birth certificate President Obama released last year is a “computer-generated forgery” — and also raised questions about the authenticity of the president’s selective service registration card.

    In an extensive — and at times combative — press conference in Phoenix, Sheriff Arpaio repeatedly said he is not questioning the president’s legal status under the Constitution nor alleging fraud on Mr. Obama’s part, but did say there is evidence crimes have been committed by someone and his investigation continues.

    “Based on all of the evidence presented and investigated, I cannot in good faith report to you that these documents are authentic,” Sheriff Arpaio said. “My investigators believe that the long-form birth certificate was manufactured electronically and that it did not originate in paper format as claimed by the White House.” CLICK HERE

    Kate Moss shows off age-Defying Looks inTopless Shoot for Another Man Magazine

    The 38-year-old supermodel posed topless on the cover of Another Man magazine, showing off her youthful chest.

    Kate 'wore' an Alexander McQueen design for the shoot, for a limited edition of the publication coinciding with the start of Paris Fashion Week.

    Kate, who was spotted out and about in London yesterday, appears to have recovered from a nerve disorder that rendered her 'temporarily paralysed', according to friends.

    She was diagnosed with the condition last weekend after returning from Paris, where she woke up at the Ritz hotel unable to move her right arm and hand.

    Although she will make a full recovery, the illness is a blow for Kate who is about to move into her £7.25million new home in Highgate, North London, with husband Jamie Hince.

    Plunging Necklines Sheer Dresses and short Hemlines

    The event, which was held at the Kensington Roof Gardens in west London, quickly turned into a battle between the female stars as the most tanned reality TV personalities fought it out for the most revealing dress competition.

    Sam Faiers covered all bases by wearing a dress that was both short in length and low cut in the chest area.

    The 22-year-old may have been dressed more demure than her sister but she may have over done it with the fake tan on her legs.

    Jessica Wright sent pulses racing as she turned up in a black sheer dress that left little to the imagination.

    The 21-year-old brunette looked slightly elegant in her short dress which she teamed with black peep toe heels, but, on closer inspection it looks like she forgot a vital piece of her wardrobe.

    Newcomer Billi Mucklow opted for a purple sequined dress which featured black under netting, but the halterneck, teamed with pink lipstick and big earrings, made the 24-year-old look like a little bit like EastEnders' Pat Butcher.

    Her boyfriend Tom Kilbey looked uncomfortable in front of the camera and he wore a white Vivienne Westwood shirt with a silver blazer.

    Lindsay Lohan opens up about terrifying jail stints and sobriety

    The Mean Girls star has now spoken out, discussing how her jail stints terrified her and she didn’t want to admit to herself she was an addict.

    Speaking candidly to the TODAY show's Matt Lauer, Lindsay revealed she is now 'clean and sober' but she uses the interview to reflect on her previous struggles with drug addiction.

    The 25-year-old also discussed in the candid chat about her terrifying stints in jail over the past year.

    But she seems to have learned from the ordeal as she dressed in an elegant LBD and spoke coherently during the chat in a bid to prove herself to viewers when it airs in the US on Thursday night.

    Lindsay admits she has experienced how easy it is to 'fall into that world' of substance abuse.

    And although she eventually realised she had a problem, it took a long process for her to admit she was an addict because she 'was scared' to face her issues.

    She tells Lauer in the pre-recorded interview: 'I've experienced things like that. It's a really sad factor that can come into play in people's lives sometimes if you don't recognize it.

    'Joyn' Messaging Service Designed By Telecoms To Fight Free Texting From iMessage, Facebook Messenger

    Just past the security gate for the world's largest cell phone trade show in Barcelona, executives of big mobile carriers can't avoid walking past a booth they would probably rather not see: It's for "Pinger," a small California company that offers free texting in the United States and Germany and has global expansion plans.

    Pinger – along with an explosion of smartphone messaging services like iMessage, BlackBerry Messenger, WhatsApp, Viber Media, Facebook Messenger and KakaoTalk – have managed in just a few years to slash away at the important revenue that cell phone companies get from text messaging, and analysts say there's no end in sight to the financial blood letting.

    They do it by offering messaging applications that let phone users chat for free on the carriers' data networks or Wi-Fi. Some, like Pinger, make money from advertisements and work on computers as well.

    The London-based Ovum research firm estimates telecommunications companies lost nearly $14 billion last year in text-messaging revenue as consumers migrated to applications allowing them to send messages over cell phone data networks.

    Ovum said the companies still took in an estimated $153 billion, but that was down 9 percent from a year earlier, and Pinger co-founder Joe Stipher wants to reduce the amount even more.

    "Text messaging is free, and calling is going to be free," said Stipher, wearing jeans in contrast to the dark suits favored by thousands of cell phone company executives attending the four-day 2012 Mobile World Congress that ended Thursday. "Data is going to be like electricity or water, not totally free, but do you worry about giving someone a glass of water at your home or letting them plug in? No."

    Needless to say, mobile companies are not happy at the flood of free messaging services piggybacking their networks. Telecom Italia SpA chief executive Franco Bernabe told MWC that free messaging services are undercutting the ability of phone companies to invest in their networks. Paid texting, or SMS, has been a cash cow for phone companies that uses minimal network capacity.

    The new "players have based their innovation in the mobile domain, without a deep understanding of the complex technical environment of our industry. This is increasingly creating significant problems to the overall service offered to the end user and driving additional investments for mobile operators," Bernabe said.

    Google Privacy Policy Changing For Everyone: So What's Really Going To Happen?

    Google’s plan to collapse 60 privacy policies into a single one and combine information it collects about its users has sparked outcry among privacy advocates and scrutiny from lawmakers around the world. Privacy experts have slammed the approach as “frustrating,” “a little frightening,” and even “illegal.”

    But users will not notice much of a change when the new privacy policy takes effect on March 1, experts say, noting that the update is, in part, codifying practices that have long been routine.

    “Users are not likely to see any difference actually because most of what Google is doing they have been always able to do,” said Jules Polonetsky, director of the think tank Future of Privacy Forum. “They were already tracking, personalizing, and tailoring profiles for users based on the different things that you did. There now will be some more data that will be available to do this.”

    The new privacy policy does not allow Google to collect more information about its users, though it does allow Google to do more with the information it has already been collecting across its services. Specifically, the terms permit Google to merge data it has compiled about its users as they engage with Google products, as well as build more comprehensive portraits by drawing on data from a greater number of Google services. YouTube, Gmail, Blogger, Google TV, Google+ and Web History, which records all searches performed on Google.com, will now be able to communicate with each other about a user’s preferences and practices. Some Google products will still maintain standalone privacy policies, such as Google Books, Chrome and Google Wallet.

    Merging information gleaned across multiple services isn’t anything new for Google. A Google spokesman noted, “Privacy policies for a long time now have allowed us to combine information that’s associated with a particular Google account.”

    But the policy being introduced Thursday will help Google develop richer profiles of its users, cobbled together from data about what videos they’ve watched on YouTube, what their Gmail emails say, what searches they perform and which topics they follow on Google+. Rather than keeping information about your Gmail usage separate from specifics on what you write about on Blogger, Google will pull all of those details together. All Google users will also be required to submit to the new terms, a fact that has privacy advocates up in arms.
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    Anne Hathaway Compares Herself To Lindsay Lohan

    When we think of Anne Hathaway, we often imagine little cartoon birds helping her get dressed in the morning, but she wants us to know she hasn't always been such a good girl.

    The 29-year-old actress is comparing herself to -- of all people -- Lindsay Lohan. Hathaway swears she's not the "saint" she seems and revealed to the U.K. paper The Sun that, in her college days, she too was fond of dancing on tables and "doing self-destructive things."

    "I never sit in judgment," she told the newspaper. "Lindsay Lohan and I have more in common than people think. We've all done things we shouldn't. It is just that I did stuff at college, when nobody knew about it. I'm not a saint. I wasted time doing self-destructive things. I found you can only dance on so many table tops."

    It's a lesson many party girls have to learn, and it looks as if Lohan is finally trying to put her table dancing days behind her as well. After five trips to rehab and multiple stints in jail, the 25-year-old actress is slowing piecing her life and career back together. In addition to earning a glowing report from a judge at her most recent probation hearing, Lohan is lined up to host "Saturday Night Live" for the fourth time, and has been cast as legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor in a forthcoming TV movie about her life.

    Hathaway may not have always been a "saint," but she's conducted herself as nothing but professional during her time in the public eye -- even after her ex-boyfriend, Raffaello Follieri, pled guilty to wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy and Hathaway had to give the U.S. government all the jewelry and gifts given to her by Follieri. CLICK HERE

    Khloe Kardashian: 'Kris Humphries Rubbed Me The Wrong Way'

    Khloe Kardashian recently discussed her supportive relationship with husband Lamar Odom, so she understandably wasn't too thrilled when her brother-in-law of 72 days, Kris Humphries, dismissed her marriage upon their initial introduction.

    "When I met Kris the very first time, I had just landed in New York and it was late at night," Kardashian told Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show" Tuesday night. "He was in Kourtney and Kim's suite. And I went in there to say 'hi' because Kim was like, ‘I want to introduce you to my friend.' They had just started dating. And one of the first things that came out of his mouth -- like within the first five minutes -- was, 'So, how much you getting paid to fake your marriage? Like how long are you gonna keep this up for?' And I was like, 'Okay, dude, I don't know if you're trying to make me laugh ... But he just rubbed me the wrong way. So ever since then I had a very defensive wall brought up. I'm a very good judge of character, if I do say so myself."

    Halle Berry Fires Lawyer In Custody Battle

    Halle Berry has dumped another man ... but this one has been with her way longer than all the others -- her longtime lawyer/confidante, Neal Hersh ... TMZ has learned.

    Read the whole story: TMZ

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