Kochi, Dec 16 : Congress Party President will inaugurate a party delegates meet at the three-day Kerala State Conference here today.

About 5000 party workers and elected members of various local bodies including Non-resident Kerala (NRI) representatives are expected to attend the meet.

The six resolutions moved at the party state executive will be discussed during the meet.

Later, UPA Chairperson is scheduled to attend a function organised to mark the third death anniversary of former Union Minister P M Sayeed in Lakshadweep.

Washington  - If you don't talk about sex, you can't save lives.

But sex is complicated, and when it collides with politics and science it usually generates controversy.

Sexual and reproductive health are uncomfortable subjects - emotionally charged, morally loaded and politically sensitive - because they delve into the most intimate aspects of people's lives.

After witnessing the lowest temperature of 6.7 degree Celsius on Saturday, Delhi still faces the cold waves with minimum temperature below 10 degree Celsius for the third consecutive day on Monday.

According to meteorological department sources, the nip in the air seems to have settled in India’s national capital with the minimum temperature 8.5 degree in the morning as against Sunday's 7.3 degrees.

Due to a change in wind direction, the minimum temperature was hovering around 14 degree Celsius last week.

Paris, Dec. 16: French President Nicholas Sarkozy on Monday escaped an attempt on his life, when a man armed with a knife and Taser stun gun was arrested.

According to The Sun, police wrestled the 25-year-old to the ground as he tried to break into the Elysee Palace, the French President's official residence. Cops found the weapons inside his military-style jacket.

Sarkozy was inside at the time, meeting Montenegro's Premier Milo Djukanovic.

His security guards are treating the lunchtime incident as an attempt on his life.

Ramallah  - An undercover Israeli army unit dressed in civilian clothes shot and killed a 20-year-old Palestinian man early Tuesday in a village near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, Palestini

Washington  - George W Bush leaves office with job approval ratings at historic lows of below 30 per cent, still high compared to his popularity in most other countries.

With unfinished wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, terrorist leader Osama bin Laden still on the loose more than seven years after 9/11, and the US economy in its worst tailspin in decades, critics at home and abroad have often wondered how he could have been elected twice.