Washington, Mar. 25: Republican Senator John McCain''s daughter, Meghan has revealed that she is a great fan of President Barack Obama and his policies.

She told CNN''s "Larry King Live" Tuesday night, that her support was for her father''s campaign opponent, President Obama.

"He''s our president and when the election was over and when President Obama won, all negative feelings were gone," McCain said on the CNN show. "I support the president."

New Delhi, Mar 25: The Naveen Patnaik-led Biju Janata Dal (BJD) will announce the seat-sharing arrangement with its new allies, the Communist Part of India (CPI), The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) on Wednesday for the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in Orissa.

"The joint candidate list will be published tomorrow," senior BJD MP Pyari Mohan Mohapatra told reporters Bhubaneswar on Tuesday.

Johannesburg - Health Minister Barbara Hogan called on the South African government to apologize for refusing the Dalai Lama a visa to attend a peace conference, local news reported.

"Just the very fact that this government has refused entry to the Dalai Lama is an example of a government that is dismissive of human rights," SAPA news agency quoted Hogan as saying.

Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday said that there should be no more severance payments or bonuses to executives of French firms who have performed badly.

"There must be no more 'golden handshakes'. There must be no more bonuses or rewarding of free shares or stock options in a company that receives state aid, that undertakes massive job cuts or resorts to putting large numbers of its employees on short-time work," Sarkozy said in an address in the northern city of Saint Quentin.

Washington  - US authorities need broad new emergency powers to take over financial firms whose collapse could threaten the wider economy, the country's top economic officials warned Tuesday in the wake of the controversial bail-out of insurance giant American International Group Inc (AIG).

Facing a groundswell of public anger over Wall Street and AIG's role in the financial crisis, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke defended their rescue of AIG before lawmakers as critical to the stability of the US economy.

Budapest  - Hungary's Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany announced on Tuesday evening that the Socialist Party leadership had drawn up a shortlist of three potential candidates for his replacement.

He named the banker and former finance minister Gyorgy Suranyi, the historian and former head of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Ferenc Glatz, and Andras Vertes, head of the economic research

institute GKI.

"The MSZP leadership recommends that official consultations should begin with and about these three candidates," Gyurcsany said.