Washington, Nov 8 : YouTube, the online video sharing website, will be showcasing full length movies produced by at least one of the biggest Hollywood movie studios as early as next month, said an executive with a major entertainment company.

Since a long time now, YouTube''s parent company, Google has been in talks with major film companies about launching an ad-supported, streaming movie service, revealed two executives who know about the negotiations.

Malkangiri (Orissa), Nov 8 : The Special Operation Group (SOG) personnel of Orissa on Friday nabbed four Maoists, including three women, from Malkangiri district for their alleged involvement in several criminal cases.

The four Maoists were arrested during a raid on a Maoists training camp in Jakalkunda forest area, about 700 kilometers from Bhubaneshwar.

Berlin  - Germany is to end its long-standing coolness to the US-backed government of Iraq, sending its foreign minister to Baghdad next year, Foreign Ministry aides confirmed Saturday.

The change would be a gesture of support for the Mideast policies of US president-elect Barack Obama, one newspaper, Handelsblatt, was set to report on Monday, quoting senior German Foreign Ministry officials.

Wellington - New Zealand's conservative National Party swept into power on Saturday in a general election that saw an overwhelming vote for change after nine years of rule by Prime Minister Helen Clark's Labour-led coalition.

Clark, 58, the first Labour leader to win three elections, immediately announced that she would step down from the party's leadership before Christmas, although she will remain in parliament having retained her Auckland seat.

Washington - In his first radio address as president-elect, Barack Obama on Saturday called for unity among the American people as they seek solutions to the ongoing economic crisis.

He praised voters of all parties for exercising their right to vote in Tuesday's elections, in which he beat Republican John McCain, and said he would work with President George W Bush in a transition of power.

Melbourne, Nov. 8 : Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting has claimed that when Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh indulged in a racist slur against all-rounder Andrew Symonds for the first time in Mumbai in October last year, the team management decided to let him off and give him another chance.

Revealing this in his “Captain’s Dairy 2008”, Ponting is quoted by the Sydney Morning Herald as saying that when Harbhajan repeated the same slur of calling Symonds a monkey during the nerve-racking Sydney Test in January this year, a chill went up his spine, and “certainly stopped me in my tracks.”