London, November 12 : Guns N’ Roses have launched an air guitar competition – and the winner of the contest will get to hear the band''s forthcoming new album before its release.

The fans, who will compete to hear the much-awaited ‘Chinese Democracy’, will have to upload their “craziest, most inappropriate air guitar” attempts to the band''s YouTube channel.

The winner will have the privilege to have a listen of the upcoming sixth studio album at a private ‘rock party’ before its official release on November 24, reports BBC.

London, November 12 : A previously unknown painting of a rabbit by renowned author and illustrator Beatrix Potter is expected to fetch 10,000-15,000 pounds at an auction.

The Potter illustration, which shows an unnamed girl rabbit with a pink ribbon tied around her neck drinking with refinement from a teacup, has never been under the hammer before.

New York, Nov. 12, 2008 -- The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has urged the United Nations and its relevant partners to double their efforts to meet the increasing needs of the poor and deprived nations in the wake of the current combination of food and financial crisis, as well as issues of poverty, armed conflicts and serious diseases.

Johannesburg - Twenty-five people were killed in South Africa's eastern Mpumalanga province Wednesday when two trucks, one of which was taking people to work, collided head-on and overturned, SAfm public radio reported.

The radio report said only two out of 27 people involved in the early-morning crash had survived. It was not clear whether they were injured.

Emergency workers were at the scene to try to remove victims trapped in the wreckage.

Mpumalanga is a busy transit corridor linking Gauteng province, Africa's wealthiest region where Johannesburg is located, with Maputo and Beira ports across the border in Mozambique.

Melbourne, Nov 12 : An Australian technology firm has come up with a unique battery power super card, which they believe can fight online fraud.

The company reckons that it can stop up to 1 billion dollars a year in credit card fraud with its new revolutionary invention.

The card, which includes an alpha-numeric display, built-in microprocessor, a keypad and three years of battery power, will display a one-time number with which to authenticate each online credit card transaction, whenever the user will enter the pin number.

The technology was developed over two and a half years by a small Deloitte-backed technology firm based in Adelaide and Melbourne called EMUE Technologies.

Hong Kong - Hong Kong's flagship airline Cathay Pacific Wednesday released disappointing passenger figures and warned that the outlook for the industry was "challenging."

The airline's passenger figures combined with sister airline Dragonair for October 2008 were up 2.6 per cent compared to the same month in 2007, however, capacity over the same period grew 11.6 per cent.

The amount of cargo and mail carried over the course of the month, was down 7.4 per cent to 114,466 tons compared to the same month last year, Cathay Pacific announced.