Paris (France), Apr. 17 : French president Nicholas Sarkozy has managed to insult three of his country''s closest allies over a brief lunch at the Elysée Palace.

Sarkozy described U S President Obama was inexperienced and badly briefed on climate change, the Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero wasn''t very clever and German Chancellor Angela Merkel did not share his foresight about how to tackle the global financial crisis.

Washington, April 17 : A new research has led to the discovery of unusual microbial life under an inland Antarctic glacier, a place where cold, darkness and lack of oxygen would previously have led scientists to believe nothing could survive.

The microbes were found in an unmapped reservoir of briny liquid chemically similar to sea water, but buried under an inland Antarctic glacier.

London, April 17 : Jack Tweed has reportedly been pumping iron after his fellow inmates in Chelmsford Prison dubbed him The Twiglet.

The skinny 21-year-old had been found guilty of attacking a taxi driver after losing his drunken temper over the fare and had been subsequently sentenced to 12 weeks in jail.

Jade Goody's grieving widower had been allegedly targeted by his inmates last time he spent a week in jail in 2008 at the start of a five-month term for attacking a 16-year-old with a golf club.

London, April 17 : Action figures of US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle are the latest craze up for grabs.

The doll-maker Emil Vicale, president of HeroBuilders. com, revealed the figures already had immense global demand owing to the President's historic journey to the White House.

"He went from no one knowing who he was to being the President and took the world stage by storm and that''s an action figure right there," the Daily Express quoted Vicale as saying.

Taipei- A Taiwan woman, angry that her husband was unfaithful, killed him Friday in front of their 10-year-old grandson and then dismembered his body, police said.

Wu Ah-yin, 57, and her husband Chiang Tien-tsai, 55, were both pork sellers in Tucheng, near Taipei. The couple often quarrelled because Wu had a mistress and often stayed out late, Wang Jen-hong, spokesman for the Tucheng Police Bureau, told reporters.