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Report: Obama's grandmother gets job to fight malnutrition

Report: Obama's grandmother gets job to fight malnutritionNairobi - US president-elect Barack Obama's grandmother, Sarah Obama, 86, is to become an ambassador in the fight against malnutrition in her native Kenya, The Standard newspaper reported Saturday.

Sarah Obama would work on an anti-malnutrition campaign by the Kisumu Kids' Empowerment Organization, the report said.

Kisumu, which is located on the shores of Lake Victoria, is Kenya's third largest city and some 70 kilometres from Sarah Obama's native village of Kogelo in the west of the country.

Obama may lean on Clintonian Dems and broad base team

Obama may lean on Clintonian Dems and broad base teamWashington, Nov. 8: Confronted with the United States’ worst financial crisis since the 1929-30 Depression, President-elect Barack Obama is expected to assemble a broad based team of economic advisers, with an emphasis on Clinton-era veterans.

Hubby’s ‘girlfriend’ causing Amy Winehouse to reconsider her marriage?

Hubby’s ‘girlfriend’ causing Amy Winehouse to reconsider her marriage?London, November 8: Singer Amy Winehouse might have hubby Blake Fielder-Civil’s ‘girlfriend’ Sophie Schandorff to blame for making her think twice about her marriage.

The 25-year-old, whose beau was recently released after having been sent to jail for thrashing a pub landlord and attempting to cover up his act, is said to be reconsidering the couple’s future together.

Paris Hilton’s ‘Repo! The Genetic’ is ‘plain awful, nearly unwatchable’, says critic

Paris HiltonWashington, Nov 8: Paris Hilton’s new movie ‘Repo! The Genetic Opera’ has been savaged by film critics – insisting that the movie is “just plain awful and nearly unwatchable.”

The remark was made by the Los Angeles Times critic Mark Olsen.

"The film is bad - not good-bad, tacky-bad or fun-bad, just plain awful and nearly unwatchable," Contactmusic quoted Olsen, as writing.

Cops have just three days left to charge Jennifer Hudson's murder suspect

Cops have just three days left to charge Jennifer Hudson's murder suspectWashington, Nov 8 : Cops investigating the murders of Hollywood actress Jennifer Hudson''s mother, brother and nephew have just three days to charge her former brother-in-law with the killings, or set him free.

William Balfour, who was married to the Oscar winner''s sister Julia, was arrested for the murders and then held by police on a parole violation.

According to TMZ. com, police sources have revealed that Balfour is scheduled to appear before the Illinois State Parole Review Board on Monday at 9am.

Shape-shifting magnetic mirrors could clear the skies for astronomers

London, Nov 8 : Scientists have developed a morphing mirror that can be reshaped using magnets, and would help clear the blurry image of celestial objects seen by astronomers using mirrors in ground-based telescopes.

According to a report in New Scientist, the new shape-shifting mirror, developed at Laval University in Quebec, is made from a magnetic liquid – a ferrofluid – that can be easily reshaped using magnetic fields.

Ground-based telescopes currently use flexible mirrors with complex actuators underneath to correct for atmospheric distortion and keep a steady focus.

They can even match the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope.

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