Kuala Lumpur, Dec 7 : Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who became the first Indian actor to be conferred on a prestigious Malaysian title, has agreed to help Malacca in developing local film industry and scout the state for movie locations.

The 43-year-old said that a team from Mumbai would visit Malacca sometime next August or September to explore locations for movies.

“There is a film I am planning to shoot some time in August and Sep­tember and I will send a team to look around Malacca,” The Star Online quoted him, as saying at a press conference after receiving his Darjah Mulia Seri Melaka (DMSM) from Governor Tun Mohd Khalil Yaakob at a ceremony in Ayer Keroh yesterday.

New York, Dec. 7 : U. S. President George W Bush would not have ordered the invasion of Iraq had intelligence shown that Dictator Saddam Hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction, claims Karl Rove, his former chief adviser and close confidant.

According to The Sunday Telegraph, Rove made the claim as the president''s inner circle launched an unofficial "Bush legacy project".

Washington, Dec 7: President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee for US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has roped in her mother Dorothy Rodham to help her in repaying her campaign debt of over seven million dollars.

Rodham can be seen in a fundraising e-mail talking of her daughter’s accomplishments and pitching a children’s’ book, titled ‘Hillary Clinton: Dreams Taking Flight’.

Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden have also been tapping supporters to help Clinton with the debt, which in October was still 7.5 million dollars.

In a letter, Clinton’s mother praised her daughter for the work she had done and talked about the book written on her life.

London, Dec 7 : Video game company Nintendo has had to reprogram a computer game it produced after it was discovered that one of its characters called the players “Nigga”.

The game, Animal Crossing: Let''s Go To The City, had been designed for children as young as three.

It had to be reprogrammed after the reviewers spotted the racist remark.

The offensive word came up when players encountered Baabara the Sheep, who repeatedly used the word as a nickname in idle conversation.

In a statement, a spokesman for the Japanese giant issued an apology.

“We regret that an offensive phrase was included without our knowledge,” the Telegraph quoted him as saying.

Morigaon (Assam), Dec 7 : Eight members of a banned militant outfit have surrendered in Assam.

They surrendered militants belonged to the "Karbi Longri National Liberation Front."

The militants laid down their arms before Major General Chander Prakash of Indian army''s Redhorn Division at Jagi road in Morigaon district on Saturday.

One of the militants said he was forced to join the outfit against his will.

London, Dec. 7 : Pakistan''s High Commissioner in Britain Wajid Shamsul Hassan has claimed that Britain and the United States had to intervene to prevent India from attacking Pakistan following the Mumbai terror attacks.

Hassan made his claim in an interview with the BBC, and said that he had alerted Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to the threat.

Zardari in turn urgently contacted senior British and American officials who intervened to calm the situation.

There was no response to the claims from the British Foreign Office.

The Sun quoted a spokeswoman as saying: "We do not comment on security issues".