London, Jan 4 : Brit kids as young as four are being sexually bullied and even assaulted by their classmates in school, an investigation has revealed.

According to the investigation, thousands of kids have been victims and perpetrators of sexual misconduct ranging from name-calling, inappropriate touching to serious sexual attacks.

The study is part of BBC One''s Panorama, which explores the sexualisation of childhood and how gang culture, music, the Internet and TV are affecting how young people view the world.

Groping and the use of sexually abusive nicknames have become almost part of daily life for some pupils, according to the programme.

In most cases, offenders are not expelled.

Melbourne, Jan 4 : Tampon, pizza and male impotence advertisements have topped the list of most hated commercials in Australia.

According to the list released by the Advertising Standards Bureau, the Kotex U tampon ad showing a woman going about daily activities with a beaver in tow was the most complained about ad in 2008. It received more than 185 complaints, reports News. com. au.

The ad tells the viewers, "You only have one of them, so look after it" and featured the animal, which audience understood to be a reference to female genitalia.

The second most complained-about ad for the year was for Domino''s pizza, in which a character named Many Toppins uses the made-up term "Supercalafreakinawesome".

London, Jan 4 : A couple from Hexton, Hertfordshire, has been fostering 117 children over the last three decades.

Their extraordinary efforts of foster carers Robert and Caroline Rejdak were recognised last week with the awarding of an MBE in the New Year Honours list and now their remarkable story has been told for the first time.

Since the late 1970s the pair have nurtured newborns and tearaway teenagers, reunited absent parents with their offspring and even become grandparents through an adopted son and daughter.

Mrs Rejdak, 58, said she and her husband applied to become foster parents in 1976, inspired by their experiences of looking after the disabled son of another couple who were close friends.

Zagreb - Maria Riesch of Germany won her third successive slalom in Zagreb Sunday to take the overall lead in the women's alpine ski World Cup standings.

Riesch benefited from a mistake by Lindsey Vonn of the United States who crashed out shortly before the finishing line when she appeared to be on the way to a clear victory.

Riesch clocked 1 minute 58.96 seconds for the two runs, with Italian Nicole Gius second, 0.44 seconds behind, and Sarka Zahrobska of the Czech Republic third, 0.63 seconds back.

Vonn, the reigning World Cup champion, had led from the first leg but a mistake shortly before the end of the second run when leading by almost a second cost her the race and her overall lead in the standings.

London, January 4 : Brit police have drawn plans to find a way to deal with law-abiding retailers who showcase drug-related products such as hookahs, after suspecting them of glamorising the banned substances.

According to the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), the businesses, while following the law, tend to advertise "legal alternatives" to cannabis on their windows.

The "head shops" further offered to sell merchandise bearing images of cannabis leaves or marijuana cigarettes, depicting "drug use in a positive light," reports the Telegraph.

Kullu, Jan 4 : Power crisis loomed over Himachal Pradesh as the water level in reservoirs had fallen steeply with water flows in rivers and rivulets getting drastically reduced due to plummeting temperatures.

Due to the non-melting of the snow following very low temperatures, the reservoirs are not receiving enough water to maintain the minimum required levels at which the hydel-power projects are operated.

T. Swaminathan, the General Manager of Malana Hydro-Electric power project of said that hydro-power generation is water dependent and during winter season the temperature is very low in the upper reaches and the snow doesn''t melt. Due to this the rivers do not get the requisite amount of water to generate electricity.