New York  - Sudan said Thursday it will not allow the 13 humanitarian organizations expelled from the troubled Darfur region to resume their work there.

"It is not reversible because we did it for our national interests," Sudan's UN Ambassador Abdalmahmood Mohamad told reporters while the UN Security Council was holding a closed-door discussion on the situation in Darfur.

New York  - New Zealand's former Prime Minister Helen Clark was appointed on Thursday the administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), which holds the largest purse in the UN system to assist developing countries.

Clark, who will replace Kermal Dervis of Turkey, was selected from a short list compiled by a senior appointment panel headed by Deputy Secretary General Asha Rose Migiro.

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A website that charges you a monthly fee to say prayers for you has been launched.

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New York, Mar. 26 : A New York strip club that Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd once visited in his youth, has invited him and his wife Therese Rein to a special dinner.

It maybe recalled that Rudd had admitted to doing an infamous pole-dance at the same club.

Rolling out the red carpet, the strip club formerly known as Scores has offered to entertain the VIP - and his wife - with dinner and a private room during his time in Manhattan.

New York, Mar 26 : A representative for Broadway's `revived' American tribal love-rock musical `Hair' has shot down reports that the actresses playing the unshaven ''60s hippies were being fitted with pubic hairpieces.

Rumours were rife that actresses in the rock musical were being fitted with pubic hairpieces so they wouldn''t have to give up their Brazilian waxes.

However, a spokesperson for the show has denied reports insisting that all the hair will be strictly home grown.

New York, Mar 26 : Bruce Willis didn't meet his new wife Emma Heming through friends, as his pals have said, infact, the actor handpicked his ladylove while he was casting for his film ''Perfect Stranger''.

The 54-year-old actor was apparently looking for a date when he was casting for the film-which starred him and Halle Berry, and set his eye on Heming when she was finalised for a minor speaking role.