New York, Apr 9 : If you think that getting matching tattoos would help relationship last forever, then you need to reconsider the idea - for it didn't work well for Lindsay Lohan-Samantha Ronson and Rihanna-Chris Brown.

"It''s a terrible idea," New York Daily News quoted Dr. Jeffrey Rand of New York''s Tattoo Removal Centre as saying.

"All you need to do is look at the divorce rate [and] beyond that, the break-up rate of relationships before marriage," he added.

New York - US stocks gained Wednesday, ending a volatile session and a two-day losing streak, amid optimism over a major merger in the housing sector.

Stocks briefly cut gains after the Federal Reserve said in its minutes from its last policy meeting in March that "downward risks" remained in the economy. The United States is in the midst of one of its longest recessions since the Great Depression.

The Fed noted a rapid deterioration in labour market conditions, with steep job losses across all sectors.

New York - Cyber spies from China, Russia and elsewhere have infiltrated the US electrical grid and other key infrastructures and have the ability to disrupt them during a crisis or war, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

Quoting current and former national-security officials, the report said that the intruders haven't sought to damage the power grid or other key infrastructure yet, but had laid the groundwork to do so in the future.

New York/Toronto  - The parents of a two-month-old baby wanted to donate the heart of their severely brain-damaged daughter for another baby, but physicians in Toronto cancelled the transplant at the last minute.

The reason was the strength of Baby Kaylee's heart and lungs. The baby continued to breathe without the respirator, the Toronto Star reported on Wednesday.

New York, Apr. 8 : New Yorkers are likely to get a chance to greet the grassy-headed figurine of President Obama, thought it has been pulled off from Walgreens shelves in Chicago and Tampa over claims that it is racist and wrong for the company's image.

According to the New York Daily News, Chia Obama''s maker is in negotiations with drugstore chains in the New York market to bring Chia Obama here in the coming weeks.

New York, Apr 8 : It's not just the teenagers who are addicted to sending text messaging, for the `texting' bug has bitten their moms too.

A report suggests that mothers of all ages, grandmothers included, have started to use text messages to keep in touch with their kids.

"It really is a whole new way of parenting," the New York Daily News quoted her Manhattan-based mother Pamela Weinberg, the author of the book `City Baby', as saying.

Weinberg texts daily with her 15-year-old daughter, and she reckons that cell phones have done her family big good.