Melbourne, Nov 13 : Paris Hilton has confirmed that she and her beau Benji Madden will host an online New Year''s Eve party in Sydney, Australia.

The hotel heiress and her rocker/DJ boyfriend have been invited to host the city''s New Year''s Eve celebrations, which will also serve as the launch party for new online social networking system Bongo Virus.

Madden will also DJ at the VIP bash, reports the Daily Telegraph.

New Delhi - India's inflation rate fell sharply to 8.98 per cent for the week ended November 1 from 10.72 per cent the previous week, raising hopes of further rate cuts by the Reserve Bank of India as industry figures indicated a slowing down of the economy.

The annualized inflation rate, which is linked to India's wholesale price index, had peaked in the week ended August 2 touching 12.91 per cent. The rate for the week ended November 3, 2007 was 3.35 per cent.

Washington, Nov 13 : When it comes to making rational decisions, feedback plays a key role, says a new study.

According to the researchers, majority of our choices fall into two categories: descriptive choice (based on what we are told) and experiential choice (based on our own personal experience).

Previous studies have shown that people will choose differently, depending on whether they are choosing based on experience or description.

In the new study sought to determine what causes people to choose differently in the two situations.

The research team from Indiana University were interested in testing if feedback in experiential choice is the cause of the different behaviour between the two choice situations.

Washington, Nov 13 : Researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) have found a way to accurately predict the impact of climate change on endangered Pacific salmon stocks that could result in better management strategies.

The findings are among the first to quantify a relationship between river temperature and salmon mortality rate.

While climate change and rising river temperatures have been linked to dwindling salmon stocks, other factors have made it difficult to measure the exact impact.

Those factors include diseases, fisheries and man-made structures such as dams and fish ladders.

Sydney, Nov 13 : As cricket is changing by the day, so are the paraphernalia. A new bat is in the making which would enable a batsman to hit with both the sides.

The back of the bat could be used to defuse full-length yorkers often employed by bowlers in Twenty20 cricket to restrict scoring options. With the back of the bat in play batsmen figure they can reach forward and "lap" it up over their shoulder to the undefended boundary behind first slip.

Stuart Kranzbuhler, the bat maker, said that but young hitters, looking for an advantage in Twenty20 cricket, are already interested in the new blade.

Singapore - Three white tigers at the Singapore Zoo attacked and killed a Malaysian worker Thursday, the zoo said.

Nordin Bin Montong, 32, jumped into the moat at the white tiger exhibit and was attacked by the three animals, the zoo said. Zookeepers distracted the tigers from the victim and pulled him out of the enclosure.

"While waiting for the ambulance, our vets attended to him," the zoo said in a statement.

However, "the worker tragically succumbed to his wounds," assistant director Biswajit Guha said.