Madrid - While world leaders have fretted over a financial crisis that seemed to bring the global economy to the verge of collapse, Emilio Botin has kept his calm.

"Crisis? Who is in crisis?" the president of the Spanish banking giant Santander, whose capacity to weather the turmoil has impressed the world, asked in July.

"Not Santander," Botin answered his own question. "The crisis is like a child's fever. It starts very strong, then goes down."

Last week, the 74-year-old veteran banker spoke about the crisis with more concern, but dismissed talk of it originating in the United States or in subprime mortgages.

Srinagar, Oct 22 : Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Kuldeep Khuda has said that extra security would be deployed for the seven-phase polls in the state beginning November 17.

"We are expected to get the required forces in time. They will be deployed as per the requirement. Different strength of forces will be required in different phases," said Kuldeep Khuda, Director General of Police.

Separatist leaders have threatened to boycott any state election and plan to hold protests during the elections.

Khuda said that strict actions would be taken against anybody who tried to disrupt the elections. "Anybody who violated law of land, action will be followed," he added.

Nosheen Idrees, the 22 year old from Jhelum Pakistan, will be representing ‘Pakistan’ in the Miss Earth pageant.

A student of communications at the University of Sheffield, Miss Idrees was crowned the third runner up for the Miss Pakistan World pageant on the 23rd of May 2008.

Nosheen expects to bring back a title, which can place Pakistan as a country that has the most beautiful women all through the world.

London, Oct. 22 : Before becoming the undisputed dictator of Germany, Adolf Hitler marched his henchmen onto the streets of Munich to perpetrate the atrocity that became known as Kristallnact.

Newly deciphered passages from the diaries of Josef Goebbels show that on the night of November 9, 1938, the Fuhrer led Nazis to destroy an important synagogue, and deliberately throwing a match into a tinderbox.

That Nazi-era pogrom was prompted by the murder of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris on November 7, 1938 by Jewish teenager Herschel Grynszpan.

The pogrom has gone down in history as the “Night of the Broken Glass”.

Warsaw - Michal Sikorski senses the fear in his dwindling community of Polish workers in Iceland as the global financial crisis spreads.

Once drawn in by Iceland's construction and service industries, Poles left by the hundreds in recent weeks as work dried up. Then, the country's financial collapse threatened to wipe out the money they had made in search of a better life.

"People are afraid they'll lose their savings," said Sikorski, a diplomat at the Polish consulate in Reykjavik. "In Poland, maybe they'll earn a bit less but at least they will be with family, in their country."

Lahore, Oct 22 : Students in Pakistan’s top universities in Lahore are of the opinion that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is ‘too aggressive’, ‘irresponsible’ and an ‘enemy of Muslims’. They said that his declared policy toward insurgency-plagued areas would “make a bad situation worse”, said a report in the Washington Times.

Obama has often repeated in his election campaign that he would authorise US forces to enter Pakistani territory to hunt down the Taliban and Al Qaeda.