Washington, Dec 12 : Golden boy Michael Phelps was overwhelmed after learning that his favourite rapper Lil Wayne had recorded a personal song for him.

The 23-year-old swimmer, who won eight Olympics gold medals, was stunned after meeting the rapper at the MTV Video Music Awards in September (08).

When asked about what was he listening to nowadays Phelps revealed that he had listened to the hip-hop star''s track I''m Me, which Wayne had sung to motivate before the races.

New York, Dec 12 : Three KFC teenage workers have been sacked for turning the restaurant basin into their personal hot tub.

Three teenage girls working for northern California KFC lost their jobs after one of workers posted the scantly clad photos on MySpace.

The photos included captions such as "haha KFC showers!" and "haha we turned on the jets," and were filed under a gallery called "KFC moments," according to the Record Searchlight newspaper in Redding, California.

The 17-year-old girl had listed herself worker at the Anderson KFC near Redding on her MySpace page.

"I''m a KFC worker, they are my best friends and my family," she said on her site.

London, Dec 12 : Madonna and Guy Ritchie are still locked in a bitter custody battle of their kids.

The couple, who divorced last month, have still to settle an agreement over where the children should live.

“Both sets of lawyers have still got their heads down. It is very complicated,” the Daily Star quoted a source as saying.

The couple has three kids, two sons, and a daughter.

Madonna is apparently determined to move back to the States, where the father of her eldest child Lourdes lives in New York.

Lahore, Dec. 12 : The Mumbai terrorist operation signals a delicate moment for Pakistan as the links between Pakistan’s intelligence service and LT have been so strong that it is feasible to view the latter as a state actor, a Rand Corporation analyst has said.

According to Christine Fair, a security consultancy analyst, said raiding the camp was Pakistan’s first response to United States calls for action against militants tied to the Mumbai attacks.

Jamaat-ud- Dawa is a charitable organisation that the US State Department says is a front for the militant group, Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, the report said.

London, Dec 12 : A vicar has banned his congregation from singing the Christmas carol ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem’, as he says it no longer reflects the present condition of the war torn city.

Rev Stephen Coulter, who had visited the West Bank, told them the words ‘How still we see thee lie’, from the song, no longer can be used to describe life in Bethlehem.

Coulter further revealed that what had once been a place where shepherds watched over their flocks by night, now instead has security guards watching over the people living there.

The Rev told the congregation at North Dorset District Council that on his recent pilgrimage to Israel and the West Bank he was shocked by the devastation he witnessed.

New Delhi Dec. 12 : The President of India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil will open a nature trail in the President’s estate tomorrow.

The nature trail is a result of Patil’s keen interest to protect the ecological heritage of Rashtrapati Bhavan and to bring people closer to Rashtrapati Bhavan.

It is a part of the Roshini Project which is an effort taken on the directions of the President of India to ecologically make the President’s Estate a green, energy efficient and a zero waste model township.