rnold Schwarzenegger’s wife, Maria Shriver, is reportedly having second thoughts about divorcing the star.

According to TMZ, she told friends she is now unsure about the divorce because of her strong Catholic beliefs and also because Schwarzenegger is trying to win her back.

The 64-year-old has been “extremely sweet” to his estranged wife, buying her presents and making other nice gestures, the Fox News reported.

Shriver, a member of the Kennedy family, filed for divorce in July citing “irreconcilable differences” after it was revealed that the former California governor fathered a child with a former household staff member.

Soon after filing for divorce she bought a 10 million dollars Los Angeles mansion in the swanky Brentwood neighborhood, not far from the family home she shared with Schwarzenegger during their 25-year marriage.

She is seeking spousal support and has requested Schwarzenegger to pay for her attorney’s fees.

Kim Kardashian’s elder sister Kourtney Kardashian has announced that she is pregnant with baby number two.

The 32-year-old reality star has revealed that she is just nine weeks into her second pregnancy.

Kourtney and partner Scott Disick, 28, already have a son Mason, who turns two on December 14.

“Scott and I are so excited to announce that we are expecting our second child and are thrilled to be expanding the love in our family,” the Daily Mail quoted the 32-year-old reality star as telling E!.

Kourtney first revealed the news to this week’s issue of Us Magazine.

The older sibling of Kim and Khloe said that she woke her partner Scott up at seven o’clock after taking a positive pregnancy test to share the news.

‘Now I’m nine weeks along,’ Kardashian tells the magazine. ‘You’re supposed to wait 12 weeks to tell people, but I feel confident.’ourtney’s younger sister Kim took to Twitter to express her excitement at the happy news.

“This is such a blessing and the whole family is beyond thrilled!” she tweeted.

“I just know Mason will make the best big brother and I can’t wait to meet my new little niece or nephew!

“Congratulations Kourtney and Scott. Xo” she wrote.

London, Dec 1 (IANS) While many people may think it’s an activity which should be best learned behind closed doors, an enterprising Swedish schoolmistress thinks otherwise.

Ylva-Maria Thompson has opened the world’s first international sex school for teaching the art of being better lovers, the Daily Mail reported.

The Austrian International Sex School in Vienna offers ‘hands on’ lessons in seduction for 1,400 pounds a term. The ‘headmistress’ says anyone over the age of 16 can enrol at ‘the world’s first college of applied sexuality’.

Students of the course are expected to stay in a co-ed dormitory block where they’re expected to practice their ‘homework’. By the end of their course, they are awarded a qualification.

The school head said: ‘Our core education is not theoretical, but very practical. The emphasis is on how to be a better lover.

‘Sexual positions, caressing techniques, anatomical features. And we teach people hands on.’

School’s spokesperson Melodi Kirsch exuded confidence that the school would be a great success.

The school, however, has already turned controversial in Austria with it raunchy advertisments showing a couple making love having already invited ban by Austrian TV.

NEW DELHI: The ‘foreign hand’ made a return to the Congress’s lexicon nearly four decades after the party had dubbed the JP movement as a handiwork of external forces.

Congress hinted at an American hand behind Anna Hazare-led protests, asking why had the US spoken in favour of an agitation in the country for the first time since Independence. It urged the government to probe the angle of the hidden hand trying to destabilize the country.

The party stuck to its charge that Anna was indulging in blackmail by imposing its draft of the Lokpal bill on Parliament and said House’s dignity was being sullied which cannot be tolerated.

But it was the talk of the US hand that surprised observers. The conspiracy theory, floated by AICC spokesman Rashid Alvi, drew from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s statement in Parliament where he said India should not fall prey to the forces envious of country’s rise as an economic power.

Briefing both the Houses about Anna’s arrest, the PM said, “We are emerging as one of the important players on the world stage. There are many forces that would not like to see India realize its true place in the comity of nations. We must not play into their hands.”

But while Singh only hinted at the possibility, Alvi went a step further. The Congress spokesperson said the sophisticated nature of the orchestrated campaign called for urgent attention to the hidden hand while recalling in the same breath the surprise statement from the US State Department urging the Indian government to respect democratic protests.

“Anna is alone. He has no organization. Then how did this movement start and grow? Who are these people spreading the word on internet and telephones; the way video message was recorded prior to arrest,” he said, while adding, “The US had never spoken about any movement in India. This is the first time that it did. We show the path of democracy to others, what was the need for the US to say it. This has created suspicion,” Alvi said.

He rejected the suggestion that outpouring of support could be a genuine grievance of people affected by day-to-day harassment from a corrupt system, saying the cause for agitation had already been defused with the tabling of Lokpal bill in Parliament.

Stressing on the existence of forces envious of national growth story, Alvi said no country out of the hundreds which had gained Independence around or after 1947 had reached the heights that India had touched. He added that there were forces at home and abroad which were interested in destabilizing the government.

he ‘Two and a Half Men’ season premiere will feature Charlie Harper’s funeral.

The lothario played by Charlie Sheen – who was sacked from the show and replaced by Ashton Kutcher earlier this year after a bitter war of words with boss Chuck Lorre – will be killed off and his funeral attended by a host of former girlfriends, his brother Alan ( Jon Cryer)) and nephew Jake (Angus T. Jones) according to Deadline.com.

It is believed that Ashton’s character will buy Charlie’s luxurious beachfront condominium after a number of buyers – including a selection of celebrity guest stars – view the property but Alan and Jake will remain living there despite Charlie’s death.

It was previously believed Charlie would leave the show by moving to Paris after creator Chuck planned to use the final scenes he shot as the bad boy – which see him and his stalker Rose leaving for the airport to catch a flight to the French capital – to explain his character’s absence when the show returns.

However, after being subjected to a torrent of abuse, Chuck has now decided to remove all trace of the character from the sitcom.

Charlie has previously ranted: “Hiya Chucky Cheeseball. Where ya hiding silly clown? Behind your narcissism, your greed? Hatred of yourself or women, which personality are you hiding behind you little worm? I see you behind your plastic smile, bitchy pout and desperate need to be liked.

“Forget love – that ship sailed when you were born – to use one of your unfunny jokes. Good luck with those tin cans s**tbrain.

“Think of me often loser, think of me as you pray to the silly god of AA ( Alcoholics Anonymous)). Can you smell your soul, can you smell the rotting dog s**t?”

Harry Potter fans can more than just watch their favourite hero’s final battle against Lord Voldemort. They can take heart in the fact that Daniel Radcliffe, known for most of his 22 years of life as Harry Potter, is an unabashed Indophile and plans to visit India soon.

For one, he is a big fan of cricket and Sachin Tendulkar and not necessarily in that order. Daniel cherishes an autograph of the Master Blaster. “My friends and I were thrilled to meet Sachin and get his autograph. I am a huge fan, he is truly a legend.”

“I wanted to visit India during the Cricket World Cup but got so caught up with my Broadway musical, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, that it left me with no time. But cricket or no cricket, I am certainly planning a trip to India soon,” he told TOI.

The British actor knows a lot about India. He said, “I have heard and read a lot about India, especially Midnight’s Children, and would like to know more about the country. Indians are huge cricket fans, just like me.”

As the Harry Potter film series draws to a close, the actor wants to take home two pairs of glasses that his onscreen persona sports as a reminder of the memorable time he spent on the sets. “I will also take home friendship which will last me a lifetime.”

Daniel has been portraying the boy wizard for nearly a decade. “I do not want to break my Harry Potter image, but have been trying other characters and hope the audience will like them the way they did Harry Potter.” The actor is confident that his Harry Potter image will not come in the way of his future films. “I don’t think of it, but one has to move on. My next film, The Woman in Black, will release in 2012.”

The British actor knows about Shah Rukh Khan starrer Chak De. “I have watched a couple of Bollywood films and found them every entertaining.”

Though Emma Watson, known for her portrayal of know-it-all Hermione Granger, is paired alongside Daniel in the film, he looks at her as his sister. “We have been working together for over a decade and are very good friends. In the beginning, we felt a little awkward doing the romantic scenes but both of us are professionals and we gave our shots.”

So finally what does he have to say to all his fans. “I hope you’ve been satisfied with the films and I’m sorry we haven’t been able to keep everything in. I think Harry Potter fans have a literary curiosity and imagination that is not necessarily associated with fans of all other big franchises, both past and present,” said the actor. “Take that curiosity out into the world, do extraordinary things.”