Washington, Nov. 11 : Barack Obama is likely to be the first fully wired President of the United States, given the millions of e-mail addresses and a political operation that harnessed the Internet like no campaign before it.

According to the Washington Post, Obama aides and allies are preparing a major expansion of the White House communications operation, enabling them to reach out directly to the supporters they have collected over 21 months without having to go through the mainstream media.

Cairo - A previously unknown pyramid estimated to be 4,300 years old was discovered in Egy

Berlin - German investor confidence rebounded from record lows with a key indicator released Tuesday posting a surprise increase in November amid government and central bank moves to shore up the economic outlook.

Drawn up by the Mannheim-based Centre for European Economic Research, the ZEW index rose to minus 53.5 rebounding from minus 63 in October amid signs that an element of calm has returned to global share markets after weeks of chaotic selling.

Melbourne, Nov. 11 : Queensland and Australian all-rounder Shane Watson and some other Australian cricketers have become pin-up boys in a soon-to-be-released calendar aimed at raising funds for the McGrath Foundation.

The blond-haired, blue-eyed Watson, according to the Courier Mail, hottie, who is also known as the main squeeze of Fox Sports talking head Lee Furlong, peeled off his threads for the racy shoot at Coolum beach recently and emerged as somewhat of a natural according to snapper Pedro Virgil.

Moscow - A man was injured by an explosion Tuesday near the Russian Black Sea resort of Sotchi, host city for the 2014 Winter Olympics, the state-run RIA Novosti agency reported.

The explosives were hidden in a beer can and the 28-year-old lost a hand when he found it on his car and attempted to throw it away.

The explosion brings the number of incidents in the area this year to six. Since April, four people have died as a result of attacks while two dozen have been injured.

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