Washington, Jan 06 : Hollywood actor Jake Gyllenhaal went public with his feelings for girlfriend Reese Witherspoon when he kissed the actress at an L. A. Lakers game.

The perky couple, who rarely make joint public outings, snuggled courtside.

The kiss was captured on camera as Gyllenhaal kissed Witherspoon during a traditional time-out segment of the game, reports Contactmusic.

The couple''s lingering lip lock was caught on the Staples Center''s jumbotron screen, which hangs above the court.

Lahore, Jan. 6 : Pakistan's top middle order batsman, Younis Khan, has urged the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to provide better sporting facilities at the domestic arena to uplift the standards of the sport in the country.

Khan said that the PCB should provide better facilities to participating teams in domestic cricket.

"The PCB needs to ensure that the pitches are sporting enough for both batsmen and bowlers and not one-sided," the Nation quoted Khan, as saying.

Kuala Lumpur, January 6: R and B star Rihanna will stage a concert in a suburb of Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on February 13.

The concert, dubbed Rihanna Live In KL 2009, will take place at at Stadium Putra, Bukit Jalil.

It is part of the 20-year-old's `Good Girl Gone Bad' tour, though which she is promoting her chart-topping third album of the same name, reports the Star Online.

Tickets for the concert, being organised by Pineapple Concerts, are already on sale.

Canberra, Jan 6: A leading NASA scientist has written in a letter to US President-elect Barack Obama that Australia's use of coal and carbon emissions policies are guaranteeing the "destruction of much of the life on the planet".

According to a report in news. com. au, Professor James Hansen, the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has written an open letter to Barack Obama calling for a moratorium on coal-fired power stations and the use of next-generation nuclear power.

London, Jan 6: Mills & Boon, the world's most prolific romance publisher, has teamed up with Rugby Football Union to create a series of rugby themed romance novels.

The books will feature handsome rugby heroes and their glamorous love interests.

"Our mission statement is to do for rugby what Jilly Cooper did for polo - to give it an air of sexiness and glitz and glamour," said Guardian. co. uk quoted series editor Jenny Hutton as saying.

London, January 6: Amy Winehouse reportedly shelled out 32,000 pounds to fly friends to soak up the sun with her in the Caribbean.

The `Rehab' singer was said to have spent the staggering amount to have five more friends from North London join her in St Lucia.

The pop star, who vowed to make a fresh start for 2009 and give up her unhealthy habits including drug and alcohol addiction, reportedly dug into her savings to bear the first class all-expenses-paid trip.