Washington, Nov 20 : Hollywood actress Reese Witherspoon has pulled her daughter out of a dream school because of the hounding paparazzi.

The stunner is upset by the way snappers have tortured her daughter Ava to get her snap, because of which the actress was forced to take her baby girl out of the "wonderful school".

"She was so harassed that we had to take her out,” Contactmusic quoted the actress, as saying.

London, November 20: British Secret Intelligence Service MI6 has shed its image as an overwhelmingly white male agency of wannabe James Bonds by setting out to recruit officers from ethnic minorities.

The agency has launched a recruitment campaign in this regard.

It’s head of recruitment, who is known as "John", said that the agency’s "rather comfortable cold war existence" had exposed it to different threats, and that is why there was a need to be "more flexible, more adaptable".

He said that that purpose could be served by having people from more diverse backgrounds.

Washington, Nov 20: A new study has revealed that the health threat to city dwellers posed by Southern California wildfires may have been underestimated by officials.

According to detailed particulate analysis of the smoke produced by previous California wild fires, the composition posed more serious potential threats to health than is generally realized.

For the study Constantinos Sioutas and colleagues from USC Viterbi School of Engineering, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and RIVM (the National Institute of Health and the Environment of the Netherlands) analyzed the particular matter gathered during the fall
2007 blazes.

New Delhi, Nov 20 : The Union Cabinet today gave its approval for modification of the Trade Marks Amendment Bill, 2007 with certain consequential changes on the basis of recommendations contained in the report of the department related parliamentary standing committee on commerce and to introduce the said bill in Parliament.

The amended said bill will provided better protection to the Indian trade marks in designated member countries and afford reciprocal protection to trade marks from member countries abroad.

It will thus encourage transfer of technology through trade mark licensing and franchising and generally promote overall business confidence in Indian IPR system globally.

London, November 20 : A 50-year-old British man beheaded himself using a chainsaw because he did not want to give up his repossessed home.

Winchester Coroner''s Court was told that David Phyall tied the chainsaw to a leg of a snooker table in his sitting room using string, taped up the on button, and plugged it into a timer.

He then laid face up under the snooker table putting the chainsaw against his neck, the court heard.

Phyall had had a small amount to drink, but he had not taken any drugs.

He used a piece of the tool''s cardboard box to cushion the blades from his neck, and set the timer to start up the chainsaw for 15 minutes.

Melbourne, Nov 20: Actors Leonardo DiCaprio and John Malkovich bagged top honours at this year''s GQ Men of Year Awards in Los Angeles.

The ‘Titanic’ star received the Leading Man trophy, while Malkovich was named Mad Genius of the Year, reports the Daily Telegraph.

U. S. President-elect Barack Obama was honoured with Game Changer of the Year award and actor Jon Hamm received the Breakout award.

Olympic champion Michael Phelps walked away with Golden Boy of the Year award.