Levi, Finland - Jean-Baptiste Grange of France took victory in the opening men's slalom of the Alpine skiing World Cup season in Levi Sunday, beating American Bode Miller into second place.

Sanganer, Nov. 16 : A maverick political candidate here has adopted a quite unusual method to draw voters'' attention. He sprinkles Gangajal or the holy water of River Ganges all around during his campaigning. 

Rajendra Patel is contesting elections for the Rajasthan legislature from Sanganer near Jaipur on the ticket of former BJP leader Uma Bharati''s newly floated Bharatiya Janashakti Party. 

He has undertaken the task of purifying his constituency by sprinkling holy water all around him, on roads in the lanes and by-lanes while campaigning in his constituency.

The drama appears to be to influence Hindus, who revere River Ganga. 

New Delhi, Nov 16 : With the signs of global reversionary trends setting in, Indian Inc say that while they are worried about the global meltdown, they are also confident that the Indian industry can sail through.

According to reports the Indian economy is likely to expand by 7.4-7.8 per cent during 2008-09 fiscal year, slower than nine per cent of last year, as credit crunch and global downturn trims growth.

At a three-day ''Indian Economic Summit'' organised by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum in collaboration with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in New Delhi, captains of the Indian industry huddled to debate out issues related to the global downturn on Sunday.

London, Nov 16 : He might be a public figure, yet there are many things about Prince Charles that are still unknown.

Now, Times Online has provided a list of not very well known facts about the 60-year-old royal.

The 10 things you didn’t know about Prince Charles are:

1. When he was born, the fountains in Trafalgar Square ran blue ‘for a boy’. 

2. It was the first royal birth since the 17th century that wasn’t witnessed by a government minister.

3. Charles was christened using water from the River Jordan, a royal tradition thought to stretch back to the Crusades.

4. A video on YouTube claims to offer proof that Prince Charles is the Antichrist.

London, Nov 16 : The small balls of chemical pesticide and deodorant that we know as mothballs will soon no longer be available for use because of a new EU restriction.

The mothballs are composed of a chemical called as naphthalene and EU has put a restriction on its usage, in order to ensure greater protection of health and the environment.

The new regulations are part of the EU’s REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals) directive, which regulates chemical use in member countries. 

John Lewis, the Oxford Street department stores in central London, admitted that it no longer stocks traditional mothballs. 

London, Nov 16 : A Brit couple has rescued a rare albino hedgehog, which is believed to be one of only 100 in Britain, from their garden when they spotted it glowing in the dark.

Nick and Julie Packham made a 250-mile round trip through the night, to take the hedgehog to Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital, in Haddenham as they feared predators might pick him up.

The albino hedgehogs, which are one in 100,000, are born with the recessive gene that means they have no melanin pigment in their skin, eyes and spikes.

The Packhams, of Pluckley, Kent, have named the hedgehog Midnight because of the time it was found.