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Washington, June 19 : Megan Fox is trying to improve the way she behaves in relationships because she fears ending up like veteran actress Elizabeth Taylor, who has been married and divorced seven times.

The `Transformers' star, who recently parted ways with long-time boyfriend and one time fiance Brian Austin Green, insists she needs to take some time to "work on herself" and find out why her romances have been failing - because she fears she will end up like multi-divorced Taylor.

"I''ve sort of isolated myself and forced myself to sit and be quiet. I''ve been reading a lot and listening to music and trying just to work on myself," Contactmusic quoted Fox as saying.

Washington, Jun 19 : Even though Scottish singer Susan Boyle has won millions of fans ever since her first audition for Britain's Got Talent, pop singer Nick Lachey has revealed that he has never heard her sing.

Lachey, 35, who is a member of boy band 98 Degrees, was at a Jetblue Airways and VH1 Save the Music Foundation event in Hollywood on June 17 when he made the revelation.

"I have never heard her sing," Usmagazine. com quoted him as saying.

Dublin - There was relief in Ireland on Friday at news of the deal in Brussels to make legally binding a set of guarantees designed to convince Irish voters to back the European Union's Lisbon Treaty.

The deal represents "considerable relief" for Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, according to daily newspaper the Irish Times.

Nad-e Ali, Afghanistan - Using small arms, boobytraps and rockets, Taliban insurgents notched up a succession of casualties on the new company of Estonian troops within a month of them deploying in southern Afghanistan.

A burst of rifle fire severely wounded one soldier on the first patrol by Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, and a comrade lost his legs to a home-made bomb two weeks later.

A third soldier died and three were wounded in a June 15 ambush, bringing to four the number of Estonians killed here in the past two years.

London, June 19 : A Canadian mother saved her three-year old daughter from a cougar using nothing but her quick wit and bare hands.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said that the child, named Maya, escaped with only superficial wounds after the attack on Tuesday night near the town of Brackendale, 40 miles north of the western city of Vancouver.

Maya, and her mother, Maureen Lee, were walking on a wooded trail with their dog when the cougar pounced.

Warsaw - Fewer Poles are critical of the country's communist past as opinion remains split on life in the former Soviet bloc, said a survey Friday in the daily Rzeczpospolita.

Some 44 per cent of Poles rated the communist state "positive" in the survey of some 1,000 people. Another 43 per cent gave a negative mark to the then People's Republic of Poland, which ruled from 1952 to 1989.

Elderly Poles were least critical of communism, with 54 per cent remembering the period fondly.