In an attempt to provide immediate relief to all victims of the recent Mumbai terror attac

Amsterdam - Amsterdam's gays are planning special Christmas celebrations this year with their first "Pink Christmas" festival due to start on Thursday.

The ten-day festival organized by the Dutch ProGay Foundation includes a special Christmas fair on December 21, a manger stall with two live Josephs and two live Marys, as well as a gay church mass on Christmas day.

Most of the activities are located in and around the Reguliersdwarsstraat, known for its many gay venues, in the old city centre.

During the accompanying film festival - the Pink Film Nights - more than hundred films will be shown in several cinemas throughout the city.

Santiago de Compostela, Spain - A Cypriot-flagged freighter caught fire off north-western Spain early Monday, rescuers said.

Orissa Crime Branch arrested four more persons on Sunday in connection with the killing of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and four of his aides at his ashram at Jaleshpata on Aug 23.

"Four persons were arrested on Sunday. Some more persons were also detained for questioning" state Inspector General of Police (Crime Branch) Arun Kumar Ray said.

The arrests came just a day before the VHP's ultimatum to the Orissa Govt. to arrest the killers of Swamiji.

The saffron organization has threatened to shut down the state if the culprits were not arrested before 15 December 2008.

Police arrested those four including a hard core Naxalites from the Kotagada area of the tribal dominated district Kandhamal.

London, Dec 15: If Australian mining companies are permitted to build an explosives factory on the remote Burrup peninsula in the northwest of the country, it would endanger the world's oldest portrait.

According to a report in The Times, the world's oldest depiction of a human face, dating back to 10,000 years, is chipped out of hard rock, and is of indiscernible gender, with huge eyes and sunken cheeks.

Thousands of other carvings, mostly of plants and animals, which date back to beyond the last Ice Age, are scattered about the peninsula.

Archeologists believe that aboriginal tribes made the distinctive carvings up to 30,000 years ago. They could be nearly twice as old as the Lascaux cave paintings in the Dordogne, France.

Sydney, Dec 15: An Aussie woman based in Sydney has now claimed that Brit chef Gordon Ramsay slept with her during a visit Down Under.

According to New Idea magazine, Julie Vidovic, 42, revealed that she had met 42-year-old Ramsay when he came for a visit to Sydney in June, and that he told her that he was no longer married.

"He told me when we met that he was separated, and he and his wife were living separate lives," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted her as telling the magazine.