London, April 27 : Snoop Dogg has landed in a Californian court to face a civil lawsuit filed by a man who claims he was assaulted by the rapper during a concert in 2005.

Richard Monroe, Jr. alleged that the hip-hop star had struck him with a microphone after he jumped on stage of the White River Amphitheater on the outskirts of Seattle, Washington.

Monroe claimed during the opening hearing, in Santa Monica on April 24, the singer's security guards later gave him a brutal beating.

London, April 27 : Girls Aloud will be temporarily headed for their own separate paths to pursue their solo career plans.

The Brit girl group, consisting of Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts, and Kimberley Walsh, revealed while personal ambition was going to be theme for some time, the split would not be permanent.

"We're all doing different things this year," the Mirror quoted Sarah as saying.

London, Apr 27 : People who drive black cars are most likely to break speed limits, a new poll has found.

The survey, by insurer elephant. co. uk, found that almost 25.4 per cent of black-car owners have speeding convictions.

And they are also 9 per cent more likely than average drivers to get speeding penalty points.

Next "most speedy" colour in line was grey, with 25.1 per cent of owners of grey vehicles having speeding convictions.

London, Apr 27 : Taking a major leap in AIDS research, scientists have claimed that they have found a cure for the HIV virus by using a long established cancer treatment to help destroy the killer disease-bone marrow transplants.

Doctors have successfully treated one patient using the method and are confident the process will work for other sufferers.

In their opinion, using of bone marrow transplants to cure HIV could become common in just five years.

The procedure involves using bone marrow stem cells already used to help beat blood cancers like leukaemia and lymphoma.

London, April 27 : Sir David Attenborough, the BBC''s voice of natural history programmes for more than 50 years, has repeated his success at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 48 years after bagging his first BAFTA trophy.

The 82-year-old was honoured for his wildlife series Life In Cold Blood that went on to win the specialist factual category.

London, Apr 27 : Britain's Got Talent co-judge Piers Morgan has revealed that singing sensation Susan Boyle has gained so much popularity that he fears he would be remembered as only "the judge in her video".

Morgan, 44, further revealed that he was horrified at the global adoration the 48-year-old Scots singer was getting.