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Washington, Sep 29 : Oscar Isaac recently expressed his wish that George Lucas should not have tweaked the original Star Wars movies.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the 'Inside Llewyn Davis' actor said that adding changes in the original product with the new technology make the film even more "less interesting."

He'd much rather go back and watch the old thing, because it's a product of the time as Lucas made it with the technology of that era, which made the movie so amazing, he further added.

Washington, Sep 29 : Several Windows 9 reports have confirmed that Windows 9 will be a free

Karachi, Sep 29 : Former Australian cricketer and current national team coach Darren Lehmann claimed on Sunday that fast bowler Mitchell Johnson would play in the upcoming Test and ODI series against Pakistan in the UAE.

Johnson withdrew from the Twenty20 Champions League with a rib injury, but was part of the Australian squad that left for the United Arab Emirates ( UAE) on Sunday.

Lehmann calmed fears that the world's leading pacer was a doubt for the first Test against Pakistan that starts in Dubai on October 22, The Express Tribune reported.

Karachi, Sept 29 : Over 33 million children in Pakistan will be administered with polio vaccine during from today till Thursday.

According to the Dawn, a majority of the 7.6 million children in the country's Sindh Province will be inoculated against polio during the four-day campaign beginning on Monday.

Dr. Zafar Ijaz, Director (Health) for the Karachi division, said arrangements to provide security to more than 6,000 teams in Karachi have been taken.

Stringent security measures are in place in volatile areas like Gadap and Baldia Towns, where polio workers and doctors had been attacked several times.

Wellington, Sep 29 : The world's largest passenger aircraft- Airbus A380 superjumbo- is flying the world's longest air route from Sydney to Dallas.

According to Stuff.co.nz, the Qantas Sydney-Dallas route became the longest non-stop flight in the world late last year after Singapore Airlines ended its non-stop flights from Singapore to New York , a 19-hour slog that covered 16,700 kilometres on a four-engine Airbus A340-500.

The A380 superjumbo will take a little more than 15 hours to cover the Sydney- Dallas route at 13,800 kilometres.

Washington, Sep 29 - United States President Barack Obama has reportedly admitted that the U. S. intelligence officials had "underestimated" the threat posed by the Islamic State (IS) and overestimated the Iraqi army's capacity to defeat the group.

While speaking at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundations 44th Annual Legislative Conference Phoenix Awards Dinner in Washington on Sunday, Obama said that the militants went "underground" after being crushed in Iraq and regrouped amid the Syrian civil war, reported Fox News.