Jerusalem - High-tech entrepreneur Nir Barkat, who billed himself as the "secular candidate" was elected mayor of Jerusalem, results from Tuesday's municipal elections, announced early Wednesday, showed.

Barkat won 52 per cent of the vote, compared to 43 per cent for ultra-Orthodox politician Meir Porush, following tallies from all 707 polling stations in the city.

Controversial Russian-born billionaire Arkady Gaydamak garnered only 3.6 per cent of the votes, in part because East Jerusalem Palestinians, whom he especially canvassed in his campaign, largely boycotted the election.

London, Nov 12: American actress Susan Sarandon has revealed that her body issues are the last things on her mind when she is having an orgasm.

Sarandon had been asked about her deepest thoughts for new TV show 1 ‘Giant Leap - What About Me?’

“In the middle of an orgasm, do I think ‘do I have too much flab around my middle?’” the Sun quoted her as saying.

“I mean when you are really in an ecstatic place and you look at your child’s face and you are completely happy and you have your family around you – you certainly don’t think about that!” she added.

Jamie Catto from Faithless and Duncan Bridgeman, who have travelled across 50 countries and 5 continents, recorded the show.

Shanghai - Andy Roddick withdrew from the Masters Cup shortly before his match on Wednesday, citing a right ankle injury he suffered during training the day before.

The American, who lost his opening match to Andy Murray, will be replaced in the Red group by Czech Radek Stepanek.

The American dropped his bombshell a few hours before he was due to take to the court against Roger Federer.

"In practise I just went over on it, we tried as much as we could to get it better," he said. "I can't really stop and start very quickly. It's anything when I go kind of over on the outside it hurts.

Melbourne, Nov 12: Philandering husbands will soon have to pay "spousal maintenance" to their mistresses even after their relationship has ended.

Under the Family Law Act reforms, de facto partners together for two years will get the same rights as married couples, and the mistress will have every right to lay a claim or seek financial support from the man with the court''s help.

According to The Courier-Mail, this is just one of the outcomes that is set to arise from laws on broken de facto relationships that will take effect early next year.

Melbourne, Nov. 12 : Australian off-spinner Jason Krejza, who snared 12 wickets in his debut Test in Nagpur, should be used as a spinning strike weapon like Stuart MacGill, says team mate and opener Mathew Hayden.

“Even though it did turn for (Krejza in Nagpur), he was going for a lot of runs and (Virender) Sehwag is a magnificent player of spin and put him under a lot of pressure, and he got eight and four (wickets in each innings),'''' the opener said.

Washington, November 12 : Whoopi Goldberg wants to be a documentary filmmaker and has signed a deal with Discovery Channel that will make her one.

The actress-comedienne-TV host, under her production company ‘Whoop Inc.’, has inked a development deal with Discovery Emerging Networks - the organisation behind the Discovery and Science Channel.

The Oscar-winner is set to work with her production partner Tom Leonardis to develop series of which at least one will broadcasted by the network, Variety reports.