Live East Enders Watched By 16.6m

It Featured 51 members of the cast, who had been Rehearsing for three days.
In the finale, Stacey Slater, played by actress Lacey Turner, admitted she was Archie's murderer - the culmination of a long-running plotline.
Archie, who had amassed a string of enemies during his brief time on the show, was bludgeoned with a bust of Queen Victoria in the Queen Vic pub on Christmas Day.
The live episode also featured the departure of Bradley Branning, played by Charlie Clements, who fell to his death off a building in Albert Square. Stacey and they had got married for the second time in the previous episode.
Diederick Santer, EastEnders executive producer said: "These numbers go far beyond what we ever hoped for.
"I am so proud of our cast and crew for their incredible performance last night. This rating is the icing on our silver anniversary cake."Read More Story,http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8526006.stm

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Tabu, Sharman Added Glam To The Do

While The Crowd pushed and shoved to catch a glimpse of Tabu and Uvika Chaudhary, we heard someone pointing across Thurs Vatsal Seth and asking, "Arrey, yeh Kaun hai, yeh bhi hai hero?" Arrey, you forget the Tarzan boy!
Shutterbugs went into a tizzy as soon as the stars arrived and everybody forgot Kedar Shinde, the director. Later, when we met him, he said, "It's okay, the stars should be in the Limelight."
When the cast and crew posed for a group picture, we heard the producer Ramesh Taurani tell the lensmen, "Hamare pass aur bhi hai glamor, let Uvika also come."Read More Story,http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/filmi-parties/bollywood/Tabu-Sharman-added-glam-to-the-do/articleshow/5596700.cms

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Dubai killing Awakes Ghosts Of Assassinations Past

"Well, there is less building is a Friday," he said, "so the air is not so dusty."
Even with Dubai's well-advertised economic problems there is still a lot of construction going on, by the standards of most places.
This is my first proper trip to Dubai since the late 90s and it is unrecognisable.
Back in the 1960s, according to my uncle who was here with the British army, the runway lights at Dubai airport were barrels of burning tar.Read More Story,http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8524170.stm

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