Albany (New York), Dec. 8 : Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of former President John F. Kennedy, will in all probability, look to the Kennedy clan to convince her to push to be appointed to Hillary Clinton''s soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat.

"Right now, it''s more of a family push than her own," the New York Daily News quoted, a source, as saying.

State Governor David A. Paterson has said he has yet to make up his mind whom he will tap to fill the seat that becomes vacant next month if Clinton is confirmed as President-elect Barack Obama''s secretary of state.

London, Dec 8 : A camel might sound bizarre as a Christmas gift, but the desert animal has been named as the most favoured choice in the top ten list of charity gifts for 2008.

The independent watchdog ‘Intelligent Giving’ has compiled the top ten charity gifts from a search of more than 200 charities.

Madrid - Spanish giants Atletico Madrid announced on Monday that they would travel to Marseille, for Tuesday's Champions League clash against Olympique just hours ahead of the kickoff.

Like most European teams, Atletico normally travel the day before the game, in order to get used to the city, the stadium and the weather.

This time, however, Atletico have decided to fly later because of serious security concerns.

Atletico have received several threats from Marseille "ultras", because of the sentence handed out on Friday by a Madrid court to OM fan Santos Mirasierra.

Lahore, Dec. 8 : The banned militant outfit Lashkar-e-toiba has said that it has devised ways at the grassroots level to circumvent a Pakistan Government move to curb its activities.

Authorities in Islamabad have ordered the police to prevent banned militant organizations like the Lashkar from collecting the hides of sacrificial animals.

A member of Lashkar-e-Toiba said that the “organisation has already devised a grassroots-level strategy to collect hides.”

Intel, in the journal Nature Photonics, has claimed world record performance in optical communications using silicon photonics.

The major utilization of the Silicon photonics-based photo dectors is to send and receive optical information, particularly in very high-bandwidth applications like supercomputers. “Silicon photonics is essential for ultra-fast transfer of data (in) future computers powered by many processor cores,” reported Intel.

Berlin - Demonstrators occupied the Greek consulate in Berlin on Monday in protest at the shooting death of a 15-year-old youth by police in Athens.

A group of around 15 persons barged their way into the reception area of the building in west Berlin during the morning, embassy spokesman Pantelis Pantelouris said.

A female protester told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa the protest was directed at the Greek state, which she said bore responsibility for the teenager's death.

Police said negotiations were under way with the demonstrators in the consulate.