New Delhi, Jan 15 : Home Minister P. Chidambaram today said that the investigation into the November 26, 2008 terror attack on Mumbai is proceeding along the right lines, and there is no plan to hand over the probe to the National Investigating Agency (NIA).

The above statement came after a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) here today.

R V Raju has been appointed as the Director General of the NIA, Chidambaram told the media after the CCEA meeting here.

London, January 15 : The Gucci billionaire, who headed a list of possible fathers of French Justice Minister Rachida Dati's baby, has dismissed the suggestion calling it "absurd".

Francois-Henri Pinault scotched the rumour through a statement his spokesman issued on his behalf.

"It's absurd. The rumour is not true. We deny it totally," the Sun quoted him as saying.

Dati, 43, gave birth to Zohra two weeks ago, and supposedly hinted that the little girl's father was Pinault.

Many top names surfaced as possible fathers of Zohara, including President Nicolas Sarkozy.

London - Champions Manchester United have the chance to go top of the table for the first time on Saturday night as the battle for the English Premier League title begins to hit boiling point.

Victory at Bolton Wanderers would lift United one point clear of Liverpool, who are not in action until Monday night when they host Merseyside rivals Everton.

With one game in hand, United have the chance to add to the pressure on Liverpool, who were held to a goalless draw at Stoke City in their last match.

"You don't mind when you go top, but top is definitely the place to be," United manager Sir Alex Ferguson said. "Hopefully that's where we'll be by Saturday night."

Dubai, Jan. 15 : Matthew Hayden's position of 10th and 18th in the all-time Test and ODI Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for batsmen is an impressive achievement by anyone's standards, but this has sparked off a debate on whether he is actually the 10th-best Test batsman or 18th-best ODI batsman in the history of the game.

The controversy seems to have erupted over the downgrading of India''s Sachin Tendulkar, who has been ranked 28th on the list of all time greats.

Hamburg - Bundesliga leaders TSG Hoffenheim could be without Vedad Ibisevic for several months as the league top scorer has likely partly ruptured the cruciate knee ligament.

Ibisevic was due to return to Germany on Thursday for thorough medical examinations from a training camp in Spain where he sustained the injury the previous day during a tune-up match with SV Hamburg.

"The first examinations indicate that the front right cruciate ligament is partly torn," Hoffenheim coach Ralf Rangnick told reporters on Wednesday night.

Jakarta - Rescue workers on Thursday picked up four bodies from a passenger ferry that sank four days ago in seas off the Indonesian province of West Sulawesi, raising fears that more than 200 other missing people have died as well, officials said.

"We have just got reports that rescue workers recovered four bodies and now they were on board a Navy warship heading the search operation," said Junaedi, an official at western Sulawesi port town of Majene, the closest port to the ferry's location when it sank.

He said the four bodies, twos adult and two children, were recovered from seas near Laboso Bay, about 18 kilometres from where the ferry went down Sunday morning, carrying 267 people.