New York, Apr. 3: The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, has expressed concern that Pakistan may implode with nuclear weapons in near future, and also "use" them.

"My biggest concern is that if Pakistan gets to a point where it implodes, you've got a country that could be an Islamist, theocratic country with nuclear weapons which could both use them and proliferate them. One of our goals is to make sure that doesn't happen," The News quoted Admiral Mullen, as saying.

New York, Apr 3: The sister of Britney Spears'' former manager Sam Lutfi has testified that the pop singer told her in recent months that she needed her brother''s help to hire her own attorney.

Attorneys for Britney''s father and conservator, Jamie Spears, have been seeking a long-standing restraining order against Sam, a manager and close confidant of the singer during her personal meltdown, that forbids him from contacting her.

New York, Apr 3 : The new law brought by Afghan President Hamid Karzai that allows Shiite men to demand sex from their wives every four days and keep them indoors indefinitely is causing an uproar.

The new Shia Family Law negates the need for sexual consent between married couples, tacitly approves child marriage and restricts a woman's right to leave the home.

US State Department is trying to force a repeal of a law more restrictive than even the old Taliban regime, the Daily News reported.

New York, Apr 3 : Paris Hilton's brother Barron has no intentions of following in the footsteps of his sister - he's determined to give up the party life to pursue a career in music.

"I want to be an international singer-songwriter," the New York Post quoted Barron, as saying.

"I''m sick of all the Hilton stuff, where all anyone cared about was whether I was doing coke in the bathroom or how many [bleeps] I was sleeping with. I''m done with partying and traveling. It''s time to get this [bleep] started," he added.

New York, Apr 3 : Despite launching her own spray-tan line, actress Lindsay Lohan hasn't stopped using other brands.

According to sources, the `Mean Girls' star has employed the services of mobile spray tanner Fake Bake several times over the past few months.

"Lindsay tans on the sly, and will have the van come to the house of her girlfriend [Samantha Ronson] instead of her own for discretionary purposes," the New York Daily News quoted a source as saying.

Lohan's own spray-tan line, Sevin Nyne, will hit the stores on April 15.

New York  - A New York-based human rights group on Thursday urged the United Nations to declare April as Genocide Prevention Month. Six genocides - Bosnia, Rwanda, Cambodia, Armenia, the Holocaust and Darfur have significant anniversaries in April.

"We are trying to work with the United Nations to recognize the day," said Jonathan Freedman, spokesman for the Genocide Prevention Project. He said US Ambassador Susan Rice was to take part in a ceremony at UN headquarters related to the Rwandan genocide.