London, Nov 16 : English actress Jennifer Ellison has been on cloud nine ever since she got engaged to her man Robbie Tickle.

Ellison, 25, was seen lapping up the sun in her white teeny bikini and looking happy as she showed off her sparkling new diamond ring in the Maldives. 

The actress had earlier admitted that she wanted to marry 29-year-old Tickle, who she has been dating for seven months and he popped the question while they were there. 

“Jen is over the moon. Robbie hadn’t told her he was going to propose, so when he did she was crying tears of joy — she immediately said yes,” News of the World quoted a source as saying.

London, Nov 16 : Madonna’s best friend American actress Gwyneth Paltrow was spotted having a heart to heart talk with baseball ace Alexander Rodriguez or A-Rod.

London, Nov 16 : Sir Paul McCartney is set to release a 14-minute Beatles track, 41 years after its only public performance, it has emerged.

‘Carnival of Light’, recorded in January 1967, features distorted guitars and drum-beats, gargling, church organs, and Sir Paul and John Lennon yelling: "Are you all right?" and "Barcelona!" 

The song was performed at an electronic music festival that year and the audience was ignorant that it was a Beatles track.

However, the band never released it, thinking the song was too adventurous. 

McCartney said that George Harrison had called such experimentation "avant-garde a clue".

Baghdad - The Iraqi cabinet on Sunday approved the final version of a security pact with the United States.

The draft was endorsed by 27 of the 28 members who attended the session, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told a press conference following the meeting.

He said the pact "is not ideal but it is the best possible option (for Iraq)."

Al-Dabbagh said both the US and Iraq agreed on the sticking point of how US military personnel could be made accountable for crimes they commit while off duty.

Al-Dabbagh explained that two committees, an Iraqi and US one, will be established to judge if those involved should be tried by Iraqi or US authorities.

Seoul - Amid continuing speculation about the health of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, the country's media reported Sunday on a further public appearance by the 
66-year-old.

Kim viewed cultural performances by several units of the People's Army, the state-controlled KCNA news agency reported, but when and where this took place was not clear.

South Korean secret services reported in September that Kim had suffered a stroke in the middle of August. They said he had also received brain surgery.

Following two months of silence on the leader's activities, North Korean media started broadcasting images of Kim again in mid-October and reporting on public appearances, like inspections of military units and visits to sporting events.

Moscow - Three Kremlin-friendly opposition parties merged Sunday into a new liberal party called Just Cause.

The parties, who failed to win seats in the Russian parliament or Duma in elections in 2007, joined forces with an eye on the next vote in 2011.

At the party's inaugural congress on Sunday, the initiators said the move had been discussed with the Kremlin, according to Moscow radio broadcaster Echo Moskvy.

The party had been formed with the help of the Kremlin, but not by the Russian government, said Leonid Gosman, deputy chairman of the Union of Just Forces (SPS).

The SPS and its two allies, the Democratic Party and the Citizens' Force, disbanded to to form the new union.