Washington, January 13: Hidden Beach Records chief Steve McKeever and movie music supervisor Bonnie Greenberg have secretly compiled an exclusive CD for the US President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration.

The "Obama Soundtrack" is scheduled to hit the shelves on January 20 - the day America would see its first African-American president begin his term in the office.

The CD includes contributions from various artists including Stevie Wonder's "All About the Love Again" and Maroon 5's latest track "Pure Imagination (2009)", reports Fox News.

Islamabad, Jan 13: Dispelling the impression of Pakistan National Assembly being a rubber stamp, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that they believed in the supremacy of the Parliament and all the decisions would be taken in the House with consensus.

Addressing the National Assembly on Monday, Gilani said that Pakistan People's Party wanted to see political system rolling and for that reason they were taking all the stakeholders into confidence on all the major issues.

Washington, Jan. 13: The new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Kerry, has said that he will try to increase the non-military U. S. aid to Pakistan upto three times from what the US offers currently, to prevent the present economic crisis from triggering "chaos in the country."

Kerry said that economic assistance to Pakistan is very necessary as it continue to struggle in the fight against terrorism.

"I think it is essential, they (Pakistan) have a huge economic crisis. If anything winds up being one of the triggers for chaos in the country, it''s going to be the economic implosion, as much as anything else," The News quoted Kerry, as saying.

Leading telecom operator Vodafone Essar and Research in Motion, the Canadian maker of the BlackBerry family of smartphones, have jointly launched 'Blackberry Storm' in the Indian market. 

Targeted at business and consumer markets, the newly launched device would be available in India from 15 January 2009.

Melbourne, Jan 13: Australia's Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith has hailed Matthew Hayden as being among country's top three left-handers, following his retirement.

The minister paid tribute to Hayden who announced his retirement today, saying the 37-year-old was "a great Australian," and added that Hayden could count himself among select company, the Herald Sun reported.

Islamabad, Jan. 13: Cable operators in Pakistan may soon have to black out airing Indian channels as the Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting has recommended a ban on all Indian channels being telecast by the cable operators across the country, The Daily Times reported.

PML-Q leader Tariq Azeem has asked the government to immediately ban the Indian TV channels from being aired in Pakistan, amidst rising tension between both the countries.

Azeem said that the Indian government has banned the books of Pakistani authors from being sold in India, so Pakistan should also give a reply to the Indian stance by slapping a ban on the T. V. channels.