London, November 12: Paris Hilton has said that she would love to date Prince Williams – provided he ditched his ‘mousy’ girlfriend.

The prominent socialite, who has been dating ‘Good Charlotte’ rocker Benji Madden, admitted that she wouldn’t miss out on the chance to go out with the royal minus his long-term girlfriend, Kate Middleton.

“I''d be more than happy to date William - so long as he ditches the mousy girlfriend,” OK! magazine quoted her as saying.

“I couldn''t believe it when I met him. He was awesome and really hot,” the blonde hotel heiress added.

New York, November 12: Jaden Smith, son of actor-rapper Will Smith and actress-singer Jada Pinkett Smith, will star in a ‘Karate Kid’ remake.

The 10-year-old, who made his film debut in the Oscar-nominated “The Pursuit of Happyness” as the son of his father''s character, will lead the role that shot the then-young star Ralph Macchio to glory with the 1984 hit.

Google Inc., through Google.org, is launching “Flu Trends” to track geographic outbreaks of illnesses in time and warn potential victims early enough to enable them to get a preventive vaccine. Working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Flu Trends hopes to track the number of searches by Google users for flu related items like "thermometer" and "cold remedies." According to the Drudge Report "anonymized, aggregated counts of how often certain search queries occur each week," could indicate a flu outbreak in the area.

Washington, Nov 12: Sixty-three percent of Americans including roughly one in five voters who supported Republican presidential nominee John McCain are pleased that Barack Obama has been elected President of the United States, while 71 percent including nearly half of McCain voters are optimistic about the next four years.

Just 17 percent are pessimistic, and only about one in four are disappointed in the outcome of the election, a new CBS News poll finds.

London, November 12: A British study has shown that workers associated with customer services, such as call centre operators, are more likely to be off sick than those with different jobs.

According to statistics from the Office of National Statistics, customer service workers are twice as likely to call in sick as the average employee.

The survey revealed that 4.8 per cent of the customer service workers had taken at least a day off in the previous week, compared with the national average of 2.5 per cent.

London, Nov 12: French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni, arrived late to commemorate 1918 Armistice at the battlefield of Verdun, where more than 300,000 French and German soldiers were killed and more than one million wounded in 1916.