Los Angeles  - Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt has been granted a restraining order against a 62-year-old man who is accused of stalking her, E Online reported Tuesday.

David Nolte is accused of sending the actress 120 "threatening and harassing" correspondences, "including disturbing and violent letters that reference weapons he owns and fantasies he has wherein [Hewitt] is being impaled."

Some of the letters detailed "delusional and violent fantasies about having sexual relations with Ms Hewitt ... marring her, impaling her and envisioning her fiance with his head blown off."

Nolte even is alleged to have sold his Colorado home to move to Los Angeles, where he appeared at her mother's home last December.

San Francisco  - Yahoo is to name Carol Bartz, the former chief executive of software company Autodesk, as its new CEO, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

The report comes after a two-month search for a replacement for company founder Jerry Yang, who was widely blamed for botching merger talks with Microsoft that would have proved highly lucrative to many shareholders.

Athens  - An infant drowned Tuesday during a search and rescue effort by Greek coast guard officials who rushed to save 19 drowning immigrants attempting to cross into Greece from neighboring Turkey on an inflatable boat.

The immigrants, of unknown origin, were travelling on the inflatable raft when it ended up overturning due to high seas and strong winds off the coast of the eastern Aegean island of Symi.

Riyadh  - Egypt and Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday their support to the Kuwait summit to be held on January 19, refusing the Arab leaders extraordinary summit in Qatar.

A statement, released after a meeting between Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak and Saudi King Abdullah, said they supported the Kuwait meeting in order to find "a way to stop the Israeli aggression on Gaza," reported the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

Tehran  - Islamist students in Tehran on Tuesday staged a protest in front of the Swiss embassy, shouting slogans in solidarity with Palestine and burning pictures of US president-elect Barack Obama and Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak.

According to the ISNA news agency, the students hoisted the Palestinian flag in front of the Swiss embassy which acts as a intermediary of the United States with Iran, as Washington and Tehran have had no diplomatic ties for three decades.

Riga  - The rush hour trend in the Latvian capital Riga was reversed Tuesday as thousands gathered in the central Dome Square at 5:30 pm (1530 GMT) to call for the dissolution of parliament and fresh elections.

The demonstration, backed by around 20 civil groups and opposition parties, was the idea of Aigars Stokenbergs and Artis Pabriks, former government ministers and founders of the a new opposition party called the Union for Different Politics.