New York, Mar 12 : The revered 73-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, is China's best hope for resolving its dispute with Tibetans, an editorial in the New York Times claims.

Though the Dalai Lama has so far managed to deflect demands for independence, Tibetans are increasingly getting frustrated, and according to the article, when the Dalai Lama dies, Beijing will lose its best interlocutor.

New York, March 12 : Ashley Dupre, the former high-class call girl at the centre of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, has revealed that yoga sessions have helped her find "inner strength."

The 23-year-old credited yoga classes for providing her with the strength to face the tempestuous row that saw Spitzer's resignation from his post of New York Governor last year.

"The past year has obviously been very difficult for me," the New York Post quoted her, as saying.

New York, Mar 12: Teen starlet Miley Cyrus has laughed off reports stating that she is planning to move in with beau Justin Gaston.

In an interview to Detroit''s "Mojo in the Morning" show on WKQI, the Hanna Montana star said she’s not ready for a live-in relationship because loses a her temper easily.

"I get annoyed really easily," the New York Post quoted Cyrus as saying.

New York  - The world's fresh water is a finite commodity, but growing demands for it are tearing the world apart between those who call for a human right for water and others who uphold water privatization in order to better serve communities around the world.

Next week in Istanbul, the Turkish government will host a World Water Forum to discuss the increasing problems of fresh water in a world where the population is growing and consumers in developing countries are driving more demands on water.

Activists called for enabling water access as a human right, claiming that the forum is geared to strengthen water privatization at the expense of those deprived of access to daily fresh water.

New York  - US stocks finished their biggest two-day rally since New Year's on Wednesday, inching upwards as JPMorgan Chase & Co joined Citigroup with an optimistic report on profits and sparked further speculation that the financial crisis may be waning.

JPMorgan Chase shares climbed 4.6 per cent after CEO James Dimon said that his bank, too, was profitable in January and February, the Wall Street Journal reported.

New York  - Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates regained the top spot on Forbes' annual list of the world's richest people released on Wednesday as investment guru Warren Buffett and Mexican telecom magnate Carlos Slim each lost 25 billion dollars.

Gates lost just 18 billion in the financial apocalypse that hit world markets last year and is now worth 40 billion dollars compared to Buffet's 37 billion dollars and Slim's 35 billion dollars.