London, Nov 2 : Ashton Kutcher’s new job as a football coach is surely paying off – his Harvard-Westlake High Wolverines are off to a 4-2 winning start this season.

The ‘That’s 70s Show’ actor, who is coaching the team, admits he''s getting a lot out of his new job. 

"Though football is no great step for mankind... it''s a great step for me,” the Daily Star quoted him, as telling Sports Illustrated magazine.

"I''m not there to teach them; they are there to teach me,” he added.

Melbourne, November 2 : Rihanna, who is trotting the Australian continent with fellow singer and beau Chris Brown, kicked off her tour in a teasing skin-tight outfit.

The 20-year-old, whose hit single ‘Umbrella’ has been polled as the ‘catchiest song of all time’, clad herself in a lacy leather suit while performing in Brisbane, reports the Daily Telegraph.

The Barbadian singer, who has sold more than 11 million albums worldwide, will next shake a leg in Adelaide followed by Sydney to perform at the Acer Arena from November 7.

Washington, Nov 2 : Experts have said that reports of today’s newer and high-tech forms of media overshadowing traditional media have been unnecessarily exaggerated.

A new study led by Iowa State University researchers have found large gains in the use of new media like the Internet and e-mail, but also a slight increase in the use of traditional media newspapers, magazines, radio and television.

They team found that the overall consumption of advertiser-supported mass media increased over the four-year period, although the magnitude of that change tended to be small.

In addition, increased use of new media occurred at a more rapid pace than decreases in the use of traditional media.

Baghdad - An explosion on Sunday struck a neighbourhood restaurant in eastern Baghdad. The number of casualties is still unknown, witnesses told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency.

Police cordoned off Palestine street in eastern Baghdad where the detonation took place.

Separately, gunmen disguised in police uniforms broke into a house in Diyala province, north-east of Baghdad, killed a woman and injured three others from the same family, police told VOI.

Baghdad/Cairo - Iraqis, blaming President George Bush for the chaos in their country since the fall of Saddam Hussein, would welcome Democrat Barack Obama's election on Tuesday for the change it would bring, although doubts remain about his plans for pulling out US troops.

Washington, Nov 2 : Being unemployed can have long-term and possibly permanent psychological effects, including low self esteem, depression and anxiety, on an individual, according to a new study.

The research team led by Arthur H. Goldsmith, the Jackson T. Stephens Professor of Economics at Washington and Lee University said that as the period of unemployment increases the effects often become chronic.

“In the first phase of unemployment, people have a benign ignorance and think it will turn out fine, that they are not going to be emotionally damaged by this, because they’ll just go out and get a job,” said Goldsmith.