Beijing, Dec. 7: China has described as unwise French President Nicolas Sarkozy insistence on meeting Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, on Saturday, adding that it has undermined Sino-French ties.

A Xinhua report quoted sources as saying that in meeting "separatist The Dalai Lama" the French President and his government have shown a total disregard for Beijing''s grave concerns.

Chicago, Dec. 7 : U. S. Vice President-elect Joe Biden says that he plans on "restoring the Office of the Vice President to its historical role" as adviser to the president and tie-breaker in the Senate.

Politico quoted a Biden aide as saying that the new Congress "will reassert its constitutional independence from the White House by barring the vice president from joining in internal Senate deliberations.

London, Dec 7 : Cancer-stricken Jade Goody has revealed her misery at looking like a ‘hedgehog’ after getting a short hair cut for daily radiotherapy and weekly chemotherapy.

“I know I don’t look well, I look like Henry the Hedgehog. I look like a nut case. I look at it and I do feel sad. Not nice,” News of the World quoted her, as saying.

However, the former Big brother star has vowed not to let the disease destroy her.

London, Dec 7: In one of the most serious attempts to reverse global warming, ancient techniques pioneered by pre-Columbian Amazonian Indians are about to be pressed into service in Britain and Central America.

According to a report in The Independent, the ambitious enterprise is the brainchild of two of Britain’s most successful environmental entrepreneurs: Craig Sams and Dan Morrell.

Trials are to be started in Sussex and Belize early next year, backed with venture capital from Silicon Valley, on techniques to take carbon from the atmosphere and bury it in the soil, where it should act as a powerful fertiliser.

Nagpur, Dec 7 : Nagpur police has said that they have found explosives in a hospital.

The police said they searched for the explosives in the hospital after a man warned the doctors on the phone.

Aziz Khan, a doctor at Crescent Hospital, was quoted saying that the caller said that a bomb had been placed near the hospital entrance and threatened of dire consequences within ten minutes.

Patients were evacuated and a police bomb squad and sniffer dog were called in. Police said they recovered the explosives and an investigation was on.

Sydney, Dec. 7: The South African cricket team can fancy its chances of beating the Australians for the first time on their home soil for four very solid reasons.