Belgrade - Pressed by the global crisis and falling demand, the American giant US Steel would within "consolidation plans" suspend production in Serbia for at least three months in order to save money, a spokesman said Friday.

US Steel Serbia, launched with the purchase of a bankrupted Serbian mill in 2003, already turned off one blast furnace and was set to shut down the other, spokesman Nemanja Brkovic told the Serbian television RTS.

Lausanne, Switzerland - The bidding process for the 2014 Youth Olympics opened on Friday, the International Olympic Committee said.

The IOC said in a statement that interested cities have February 9, 2009, to formally bid for the event bringing together around 3,500 athletes aged 14-18 in the Olympic summer sports.

Bid files have to be submitted by July 2009, a shortlist will be set up in October and the host city elected by the IOC in February 2010.

London, December 19 : Ace footballer Robinho will no longer need the bus pass his cheeky team-mates have given him, for he has purchased a 200mph Lamborghini.

Man City stars joined forces to get the 590-pound annual pass after they read that Robinho went shopping on public transport.

However, the 24-year-old bought a brand-new Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4.

According to reports, the white colour motor cost him 170,000 pounds.

Robinho spent six pounds on taking his girlfriend shopping by bus last month.

Dublin - Irish writer, academic and politician Conor Cruise O'Brien has died at the age of 91, national broadcaster RTE reported Friday.

Born in 1917 in Dublin in an Ireland that was still part of the British Empire to a journalist father and teacher mother, O'Brien's early career was as a civil servant in the foreign ministry.

He became a special representative for the United Nations to the Democratic Republic of Congo in the early 1960s and wrote To Katanga and Back in 1962 about Katanga province's secession from the newly independent DR Congo.

In a first step toward news regulation, the news broadcast association (NBA) has issued guidelines for crisis coverage by the Indian media. It is recalled that news channels were charged with negative coverage during the recent terror attack in Mumbai. There are voices from many quarters to set norms for news broadcasting in the crisis hours. Security specialists and Military experts have also expressed reservations on broadcasting live telecast of terror and hostage activities as it can help terrorists to reshape their strategy.

London, December 19 : Robbie Williams has revealed that he would love to shake a leg on the next series of Britain's TV show `Strictly Come Dancing.'

The 15-time BRIT Award-winning singer, who began his career as a member of the pop band `Take That' in 1990, which he left in 1995 to begin his solo career, said he would be ready with his moves to woo the audience by the end of 2009.

"You can expect me on Celebrity Come Dancing towards the end of summer next year," the Mirror quoted him as saying.

The 34-year-old songwriter admitted on his website that he was at the end of his tether to leave LA and get back to his native England despite its characteristic weather.