Hanover, Germany - In a sign of strain, Continental, the German supplier of tyres and electronic components to the car industry, is contemplating a 1-billion-euro
(1.3-billion-dollar) equity issue, a spokeswoman said Thursday in Hanover.

She was confirming remarks by chief financial officer Alan Hippe outside an investors conference in New York.

Hippe warned it was possible Continental might have to write down the value of companies it has acquired by up to 1 billion euros.

The spokeswoman said an issue of new shares on the same scale was being propounded as a solution.

Washington, Jan 15 : Indian actress Freida Pinto was left red-faced after she met her idol actress Angelina Jolie, as her mouth was full of pastry at the time.

The `Slumdog Millionaire' star was surprised to see Jolie at a luncheon in Los Angeles, but as she did not have the nerve to talk to her, she made her way to the buffet instead.

She was so engrossed in food that she never noticed the `Tomb Raider' star making her way towards her.

Jerusalem, Jan. 15 : The United Nations on Thursday expressed its outrage against Israel after it targeted its headquarters in the Gaza Strip, injuring three of its employees.

Chris Gunness of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) told Sky News that hundreds of people were taking refuge inside the compound when it was hit by "three white phosphorus" shells.

The weapons burn at extremely high temperatures, starting fires that cannot be put out with fire extinguishers.

Gunness confirmed that a blaze is raging in one of the buildings housing hundreds of tons of food aid due to be pushed out today.

Chisinau - A week-long Russian embargo of natural gas deliveries to Moldova had left the former Soviet republic with idled factories and increasingly cold homes, the Infotag news agency reported.

The Kremlin in a row with Kiev over natural gas deliveries on January 7 cut off all fuel shipments through Ukraine to Europe. The move severed all natural gas deliveries to Moldova.

Washington, Jan 15 : American actress Sigourney Weaver hopes that her first TV movie `Prayers for Bobby' will help gay teens when they come out about their sexual orientation to their parents.

Weaver plays the real-life mother of tragic gay youth Bobby Griffith, who committed suicide in the 1970s after his religious parents spent years trying to `cure' him.

New Delhi, Jan. 15 : The one month long winter internship programme organized by the National Human Rights Commission concluded today in New Delhi.

This was the ninth batch of interns. Fifty three post graduate level students of different subject disciplines from fourteen States and Union Territories attended this programme which started on December 17, 2008.

They included thirty two girls and twenty one boys.