New York, Nov. 25 : Alaska Governor and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is now being feted by conservatives across the country for inspiring millions of Americans to fight for common sense and conservative principles.

According to CBS, a conservative political action committee will begin running ads in Alaska and on national television this week honoring Palin.

Timed for Thanksgiving, the ads (there are two 60-second versions and two 30-second ones) feature the PAC’s officials thanking Palin for her candidacy.

Warsaw - Polish researchers launched a probe on Tuesday into the 1943 death of World War II General Wladyslaw Sikorski, hoping to determine if it was an accident or possible Soviet-planned assassination.

Sikorski's coffin was taken out of its sarcophagus from a crypt in a Krakow cathedral, and was later to be transported for DNA and medical tests. Results are expected in about a month.

Sikorski died on July 1943 while returning from a troop inspection in the Middle East. The Royal Air Force plane crashed into the sea minutes after take-off from Gibraltar.

London, Nov. 25 : The Palais des Nations is the U. N.''s European headquarters, and is now in need of a major facelift.

But hold your breath, according to Director General Sergei Ordzhonikidze, who heads the U. N. Office at Geneva, it will cost a billion dollars to rebuild the palace that is flanked by the Swiss Alps to the west and Lake Geneva to the east, besides the pristine, 111-acre Ariana Park that surrounds it.

Washington, November 25 : Sarah Jessica Parker of Sex and the City fame has revealed that her character Carrie Bradshaw would not become a mum in the movie’s sequel.

The actress-producer, whose film adaptation of the HBO television series rocked the box office after its May release this year, confirmed that a sequel can be expected.

However, Parker, who plays the columnist, said that allowing the character to become a mother would be ‘manipulative’ and against her beliefs, reports Contactmusic.

Washington, November 25 : A first British edition of ‘You Only Live Twice’ written by Ian Fleming, the creator of the James Bond character, is set to go under the hammer.

The author while working on his first novel ‘Casino Royale’ had been on the look out for inspiration – a name for the character that would carve itself an undisputable niche.

Washington, November 25 : Researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University say that they have devised a way to detect and report in real time Internet network problems that often go unnoticed, and annoy netizens as well as business houses.

The researchers say that their Network Early Warning System (NEWS) can help solve such problems.

Growing network problems often irritate internet users, and may drive thousands of potential customers away from the site providing the feed.

Determining the existence of network anomalies is important because the Internet does not have an overall monitoring system.