Washington, Apr 21: Actress Lindsay Lohan is said to be in talks for a part in the topless Las Vegas Strip show “Peepshow”.

Lohan, 22, flew from Los Angeles to Las Vegas on April 19 on the private plane of the producer of Mel B and Kelly Monaco''s “Peepshow” to attend the grand opening of the sexy striptease production.

But the trip was also official as she had a meeting scheduled with director and Broadway bigwig, Jerry Mitchell.

Manila  - Former Swiss Red Cross hostage Andreas Notter headed home on Tuesday, four days after he walked free from Muslim militants who held him captive for more than three months on a southern Philippine island.

Notter, 38, left for Hong Kong where he would take a connecting flight to Geneva, bringing along a cane and a coconut shell as reminders from his captivity on Jolo island,
1,000 kilometres south of Manila.

Beijing - The quick expansion of China's nuclear energy production is far outpacing the regulation of its nuclear reactors, the country's top nuclear watchdog warned.

Li Ganjie, director of the National Nuclear Safety Administration, also said in unusually strong terms that China has insufficient capacity to handle nuclear waste.

Madrid  - Indian President Pratibha Patil was Tuesday welcomed by Spain's King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia after arriving Monday for the first official visit by an Indian head of state to Spain.

The four-day visit was expected to focus on stepping up trade relations, investments, and on the fight against terrorism, diplomats said.

The Spanish royal couple welcomed Patil and her husband Devisingh Ransingh Shekhawat in front of El Pardo palace.

Washington, April 21: In new discoveries by researchers from Uppsala, Cambridge and Duke Universities, it has been shown that the earliest backboned land animals had different life histories.

The researchers studied fossil upper arm bones from the two so-called “four-legged fishes”, Ichthtyostega and Acanthostega, from Greenland.

These animals, which lived during the Devonian period about 365 million years ago, were among the earliest vertebrates (backboned animals) with fore- and hindlimbs rather than paired fins.

Paris - With schools and politicians on Easter holiday, the big news in France these days is what President Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly told a group of lawmakers about several Western leaders, as reported by the left-leaning daily Liberation.

Most of the controversy concerns the president's assessment of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero as "not very clever."