London, January 14: The classic British bulldog is to lose its Churchillian jowl because of a change in breeding standards effected by the Kennel Club.

The shake-up means that the dog will have a shrunken face, a sunken nose, longer legs, and a leaner body.

The British Bulldog Breed Council is unhappy with the change, and is considering taking legal action against the club.

"What you'll get is a completely different dog, not a British bulldog," Time Online quoted Robin Searle, the chairman, as saying.

New breeding standards for 209 dog species have been brought into immediate force, according to the online report.

London, January 14: Hollywood's recoil over Kate Winslet's controversial Nazi role in "The Reader" may put the actress' Oscar dreams in jeopardy.

In the Golden Globe winning film, Kate stars as Hanna Schmitz, who keeps her past as a concentration camp guard under wraps while she has an affair with a teenage boy half her age.

After a positive opening, the Sensex continued its positive run on account of heavy buying action seen across several large, medium and small cap stocks.

IT, metal, oil & gas and banking stocks led the rally.

Reflecting heavy buying at several side counters, the BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices have gained 1.73% and 1.29% respectively.

The 30-share index, BSE Sensex, today (Jan 14), opened at 9,207.52 after making a gain of 136.16 points.

Lahore, Jan. 14 : Dismissing reports about Pakistan President, Asif Ali Zardari, attending the swearing-in ceremony of the US President-elect Barack Obama, the US has said that no foreign leaders have been invited to attend the ceremony.

According to the Daily Times, the invitations issued by the US Secretary of State have names of foreign ambassadors and their wives only, as guests for the ceremony in Washington DC on January 20.

Jerusalem, Jan. 14 : Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak has ordered his country's defence forces to set up a team of intelligence and legal experts to collect evidence related to Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) operations in the Gaza Strip, that could be used to defend military commanders against future lawsuits.

Called an "Incrimination Team," the group of experts, according to the Jerusalem Post, has already received all of the footage filmed by IDF Combat Camera teams deployed inside the Gaza Strip, to review and decipher.

All footage taken by Combat Camera soldiers is first given to brigade intelligence officers who study it for intelligence information.

Melbourne - Roger Federer stepped up his preparation for the Australian Open as he claimed his eighth career victory over Carlos Moya 6-2, 6-3 on Wednesday's opening day at the AAMI Classic.

Joining Federer as a winner at the promotion-relegation event was Olympic doubles partner Stan Wawrinka, with the number 16 hammering off-form Marcos Baghdatis 6-2, 6-2.

Fernando Verdasco of Spain beat Croatian Marin Cilic 6-2, 7-5 while Chile's Fernando Gonzalez showed the bebefits of two and a half months off in a defeat of Croatian Ivan Ljubicic 6-4, 6-3.