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Washington, Nov 15 : Shailene Woodley is in talks to pale the female lead in the upcoming Edward Snowden film.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the project, which would be helmed by Oliver Stone , already stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the NSA whistleblower, and if the deal is sealed Woodley, 22 would play girlfriend Gordon-Levitt's character.

Amritsar, Nov 15 : South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley got nostalgic and emotional after visiting the Golden Temple here today.

She said that she was seeing the temple after 40 years.

Haley is ona visit to Amritsar with her husband and an American delegation. She is on a ten-day trip to India.

After visiting the temple, and overwhelmed and emotional Haley could barely hold back her tears, and described her visit as "really special and emotional."

Washington, Nov 15 - Benedict Cumberbatch is all set to receive the British In

Washington, Nov 15 - Microsoft has announced a browser based version of Skype that will allow users to make audio and video Skype calls on any system.

According to PC World, Skype says the new beta web app will be rolling out very slowly to a small number of existing and new users, with a worldwide release expected in the coming months.

The software giant says the beta version of Skype launched for Web will allow users to log into their Skype accounts from all browsers, including Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

Dubai, Nov 15 - Bollywood actor-director Farhan Akhtar is honored to have been appointed as UN's Women South Asia Goodwill Ambassador.

The 40-year-old National Award-winning star, who will now work towards gender equality and violence against women and girls in India through his Men Against Rape and Discrimination ( MARD) campaign, had stated that he wanted to call on all males to act as a "catalyst for change," Gulf News reported.

Akhtar, who's become the first man to be chosen as a Goodwill Ambassador for UN, added that he supported UN Women's HeForShe campaign and believed that men and boys could play a huge role in stopping crime against women and girls.

Washington, Nov 15 - Scientists have recorded the warmest global mean sea surface temperatures ever.

Axel Timmermann, climate scientist and professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, said that the temperatures even exceeded those of the record-breaking 1998 El Nino year.

From 2000-2013 the global ocean surface temperature rise paused, in spite of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. This period, referred to as the Global Warming Hiatus, raised a lot of public and scientific interest. However, as of April
2014 Ocean warming has picked up speed again, according to Timmermann's analysis of ocean temperature datasets.