The meeting of the Home Ministers of the SAARC countries has been postponed "on the request of a member country".

London, Nov 17: Hollywood actress Dame Helen Mirren has been slammed for claiming that female jurors are less likely to sympathize with female rape victims, as they tend to think the woman was “asking for it”.

The ‘Hamlet’ actress stated that the female jury is not adequately sympathetic towards women due to sexual jealousy, and a lawyer defending a man would want a jury constituting of women.

Washington, Nov. 17 : Russia has announced that it will not carry out its threats to deploy new missiles facing Europe and that the advent of a new U. S. administration provides "great opportunities" to overcome other differences with the United States.

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev announced this in Washington on Saturday on the sidelines of a G-20 leaders'' meeting that was discussing solutions for arresting the global economic meltdown.

"I believe we have great opportunities to restore relations to the fullest extent, and we can build them on a new foundation," the Washington Times quoted Medvedev as saying during an address to the Council on Foreign Relations.

New York, Nov. 17: Louisiana's Indian American Governor Bobby Jindal is of the view that there is something wrong with his Republican Party, and that it needs to do three things to get back on track.

Chicago, Nov. 17 : U. S. President-elect Barack Obama has announced the appointment of three key White House advisers over the weekend.