New York, Nov 26 : John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate who lost to Barack Obama in the Nov 4 poll, has said that he would work in tandem with the President-elect in helping the country getting out of the economic recession at the earliest.

According to the New York Daily News, McCain last evening pledged to work with Obama on the economy and other issues.

According to the paper, McCain said he would visit Iraq and Afghanistan, then work with Obama to pass an economic rescue plan, and maybe even immigration reforms.

New York - US markets got a slight boost from government plans announced Tuesday to pump an additional 800 billion dollars into the struggling economy and unfreeze credit for consumers and small businesses.

The increases continued a three-day rally on Wall Street. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 36.06 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 8,479.47. The broad-based Standard & Poor's 500 Index gained 5.58, or 0.7 per cent, to 857.39, while the technology heavy Nasdaq Composite Index slipped 7.29 points, or 0.5 per cent, to 1,464.73.

New York - Argentina and Jordan picked up their first ever International Emmy Awards Monday night as the UK once again dominated the awards show with seven prizes.

Argentina won in the TV Movie/Mini Series category for Television Por La Identidad about the children of mothers who disappeared during the military dictatorship and Jordan won in the Telenovela category for Al-Igtiyah (The Invasion) a Palestinian love story that takes place against the backdrop of an Israeli incursion.

New York, Nov 24 : Rev. Ed Young form Texas challenged his followers with a rather ‘hot’ idea to perk up things in their married lives— ‘Seven Days of Sex’.

Young, an author, a television host and the pastor of the evangelical Fellowship Church, issued his call for a week of “congregational copulation” among married couples on Nov. 16, while pacing in front of a large bed.

“Today we’re beginning this sexperiment, seven days of sex. How to move from whining about the economy to whoopee!” the New York Times quoted him as saying.

New York, Nov 24 : The authors of the best-selling book ‘The Rules’ have some guidelines for heartbroken Jennifer Aniston.

The ‘Friends’ star Aniston recently opened up about her ex Brad Pitt, and his “uncool” partner Angelina Jolie.

The authors advise Aniston how to cope up with her on/off relationship with John Mayer or talk about Brad Pitt.

"Breaking up is never easy, but it doesn''t have to be humiliating," the New York Post quoted Ellen Fein, who wrote the book with Sherrie Schneider, as saying.

New York, Nov 24: US President-elect Barack Obama’s most difficult test would be Pakistan, a country with 170 million people and up to 60 nuclear weapons, WHICH may be collapsing and where terror is increasing by the day, journalists being shot dead and diplomats kidnapped, said an article in the New York Times.

It said that life for journalists have been become scary, even as Peshawar is partly controlled by the Taliban.