Melbourne, Nov 17 : Aussie all-rounder Shane Watson has said that he loved bowling to Indian opener Gautam Gambhir because it were a big dog-fight to get him out, but added that the latter was no “Mr Perfect”. The duo was involved in a spat in the third Test at Kotla, where the opener elbowed Watson after the latter was seen passing some comments at him.

Washington, Nov 17: US President-elect Barack Obama has reportedly said that hw would keep his poll promises of pulling out troops from Iraq, crushing Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, and shutting down the Guantanamo Bay camp.

In his first major post-election radio interview, he signaled no retreat from expansive campaign promises that had pleased US allies, even while adding little detail to how he would fulfill them.

Madrid  - The alleged military head of the militant Basque separatist group ETA has been arrested in southern France by French and Spanish police, Spanish media reported Monday.

Mikel Garkoitz Asiazu Rubina, known by his alias Txeroki, was arrested with a woman at Cauterets ski resort near Lourdes in the Pyrenees in an coordinated operation between French and Spanish security forces, newspaper El Mundo reported. Both were armed.

Wellington  - New Zealand prime minister-elect John Key named his first cabinet on Monday, saying it was focussed on growth and prosperity for all, despite the current international financial crisis.

"The growth outlook is weak and international and domestic difficulties abound," he said. "This government will concentrate on boosting economic growth because that is what will lead us out of these challenging times."

New York, Nov. 17: Louisiana’s Indian American Governor Bobby Jindal is of the view that there is something wrong with his Republican Party, and that it needs to do three things to get back on track.

Kathmandu  - Nepalese politicians Monday vowed to draft the country's new constitution by May 2010.

The announcement came after the country's powerful constituent assembly adopted a programme of schedules to draft the constitution showing rare signs of cooperation among the political parties on Sunday.

Chairman of the assembly Subash Nembang said the schedule lays out plans spread over 82 weeks leading to the formal promulgation by May 2010.