London, Nov 12 : Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, 33, has revealed that his pregnant wife Jools has developed an odd craving for hot water bottles.

The Naked Chef, as he is known, also revealed that Jools, 34, had a hunger for “retro” food from her childhood.

“Basically she’s an eating machine and I’m feeding her,” the Sun quoted him as telling US chat show host David Letterman.

“She’s gone back to retro food — fish paste, all that stuff from her childhood. She’s dipping bananas in vegemite.

Manila - An official of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Wednesday urged South-East Asian countries to prepare programmes to mitigate the negative impact of the global financial crisis on food security.

Purushottan Mudbhary, chief of the Policy Assistance Branch of the FAO regional office, said food supply would not be a problem as production was expected to be "quite good" for the rest of the year and 2009.

But he warned that "the problem is the access."

London, Nov.

Melbourne, Nov 12 : Irish airline Ryanair, known for being a low-cost airline, recently landed itself in trouble when its latest charity calendar was branded sexist.

The calendar only had pictures of scantily clad female cabin crew, which made the airhostesses look more like page three pinups than plane staff.

Brussels - The European Commission on Wednesday ruled that a 300-million-euro (38

Ambala (Haryana), Nov 12 : Swami Avdheshanand, religious guru of Pragya Singh, an accused in Malegaon blasts, has offered his cooperation in blast investigations.

Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has so far arrested nine suspects including Singh in connection with the September 29 Malegaon blast case.