New York, Nov 13: Hugh Hefner’s ex girlfriend Kendra Wilkinson has landed a big modelling assignment— she’s shooting for a campaign for Marc Ecko''s high-end Cut & Sew line.

The news comes just days after the 23-year-old star confirmed her engagement to Philadelphia Eagles hunk Hank Baskett.

The ‘Girls Next Door’ star, known for her outspoken attitude, announced her split with the Playboy mogul last month.

The lady appears as eye candy in lingerie alongside a male model in ads for the menswear line.

An Ecko rep claimed they chose Wilkinson for the high-profile campaign as "her down-to-earth sexiness fits right in with the Cut & Sew customer."

San Francisco - Drummer Mitch Mitchell, who with Jimi Hendrix founded the Jimi Hendrix Experience in the 1960s, has died at the age of 61.

The last surviving member of the trio was found dead Wednesday in a hotel room in Portland in the north-western US state of Oregon, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported.

He died of natural causes, the local medical examiner said.

A week earlier, he had performed as part of the Experience Hendrix Tour, a tribute to Hendrix, in Seattle and Portland, where the West Coast leg of the tour ended.

New York - As the US Treasury Department said it will prop up consumer lending as part of the emergency financial bail-out, US stock indices plunged more than 4 per cent Wednesday, with the Standard & Poor's 500 index dropping to a near five-year low.

The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index also reached a five- year low.

US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's plans to shift some of the focus of the final half of the 700-billion-dollar rescue fund to credit card and loan companies reflected growing concern over drops in consumer spending, auto buying and student borrowing.

"This market, which is vital for lending and growth, has for all practical purposes ground to a halt," Paulson said.

New York, Nov. 12, 2008 -- The UAE Tuesday presented US$668,000 to the UN in support of the latter's development activities and programmes for the year 2009.

New York- Credit card company American Express is to apply for 3.5 billion dollars' in US federal emergency assistance in trying to cope with the effects of the financial market crisis, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

The paper cited unidentified sources for its report, coming at a time when more and more consumers are falling behind on their credit card accounts.

American Express Co. qualifies for support under the 700-billion- dollar Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) after having converted itself into a bank-holding company two days earlier, a move which other financial institutes in the US are considering.

New York, Nov 12: The First Lady of the US, Laura Bush, is in talks for a multimillion-dollar deal to write her memoirs, while her husband George W. Bush may have to wait years before he can write his.

As things have not been going very well during his two terms as President, Bush has been advised to wait for some years before he can publish his memoirs.

“Laura is interviewing publishers who are bidding on her memoirs,” the New York Post quoted one biographer as saying.

“The publishers are coming to the White House to meet with her and discuss the book,” the biographer said.