Washington, November 26 : Britney Spears has described her wasted time on bad dates that made her want to run back to her home.

The ‘Womanizer’ singer, who barely has time to do anything for herself owing to her hectic promotion schedule for her latest album ‘Circus’, explained couple of incidents to the Rolling Stone’s next issue.

"Right when we got there, we just knew it was just bad. He looked like an older version of Harry Potter, but skinnier. … So I had to get dessert first,” People magazine quoted her as saying.

Paris - Despite a bitter defeat in the vote to head the French Socialist Party, former presidential candidate Segolene Royal is apparently preparing to stand for the
2012 presidential election.

In a video available on Wednesday on the internet, Royal tells her supporters, "I need you, I need your ideas, because we are continuing - 2012 is soon, 2012 is tomorrow,
2012 is in three years."

On Tuesday, after four days of bitter infighting, the Socialist Party declared that Royal lost last Friday's party leadership election to Lille Mayor Martine Aubry by only 102 votes out of 135,000 cast.

NETGEAR®, Inc, a global supplier of technologically advanced, branded networking solutions, has launched the industry's first six-bay desktop network-attached storage solution (NAS) for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

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Moscow - The mayor of the capital of Russia's North Ossetia region, bordering Georgia, was shot dead in his car outside his home on Wednesday, Russian media reported.

Officials suspected a sniper attack, a police source told the Ria-Novosti news agency.

"There was a single bullet hole in the door of his vehicle. Presumably it was a single sniper shot which proved fatal," the unnamed police source said.

The Vladikavkaz mayor was rushed to an emergency ward after the shooting. Officials at the hospital said he died of a bullet wound to the heart.

Karachi, Nov 26 : Departing from its earlier practice of buying submarines from France, Pakistan has reportedly decided to acquire three German submarines of “Type 214”.

Walter Freitag, the chief executive officer of the HDW, the largest conventional submarine maker in the world, said that his company had finalised technical specifications with the navy to build three “Type 214” submarines in Pakistan.

“The commercial contract has been finalised up to 95 per cent,” The News quoted him as saying.

He hoped the final contract in this regard will be signed soon.

New Delhi, Nov 26 : Popstar Christina Aguilera is keen on learning how to cook "bad-for-your-arteries" food.

The ‘Keep Getting Better’ hitmaker is hoping that she’s able to make meals like her mother in order to impress 10-month-old Max, her first child with husband Jordan Bratman, reports China Daily.

"My mom loves to cook really southern, good, buttery, salty, delicious, bad-for-your-arteries kind of food, but it is amazing, and I hope to be a cook like that someday because one thing that I look forward to whenever I do go home is tasting my mom''s home cooking,” Aguilera said.

"I want to do the same for Max. Cooking is my next goal in life to achieve,” she added.