Washington, Nov 10 : After playing with expensive guns in James Bond flicks, Hollywood actor Daniel Craig is reportedly set to don legendary British King William’s look for an upcoming flick ‘William-The Conqueror.

The ‘Casino Royale’ star is allegedly in talks to play the title role in the39.25 million dollars mega budget flick, which will bring to light William’s life prior to his victory at the
1066 Battle of Hastings.

London, Nov 10 : The President of Maldives has announced plans of diverting a portion of the country’s billion-dollar annual tourist revenue into buying a new homeland, as an insurance policy against global warming.

According to a report in the Guardian, Mohamed Nasheed, who is the first democratically elected president of the Maldives, has said that the chain of 1,200 islands and coral atolls, dotted 500 miles from the tip of India, is likely to disappear under the waves if the current pace of climate change continues to raise sea levels.

Nasheed said that this scenario threatens to turn the 300,000 islanders into environmental refugees.

A study, reported at the American Heart Association meeting in New Orleans said that the number of people over 65 years who were hospitalized for heart failure had more than doubled over the last 25 years. The report is the first to document the increase in the disease across the country and estimates that this will cost the United States $34.8 billion this year for direct and indirect treatment costs and the incidence would keep increasing unless prevention measures are adopted quickly.

London, Nov 10 : A new study by UK and US scientists has revealed that the sheer physical effort involved in breastfeeding may leave babies with stronger lungs well into childhood.

Previous studies have established that breastfeeding protects babies from respiratory problems early in life, but the relationship with lungpower later in childhood is less clear-cut.

For the study, the researchers followed a total of 1,456 babies from the Isle of Wight all the way through to there 10th year to test this.

A third of them had been breastfed for at least four months, and on average, these children could blow out more air after taking a deep breath, and could blow it out faster.

New York, Nov 10 : Alaska governor Sarah Palin may have not become the U. S. vice president, but it looks like she has won hearts of talent scouts and literary agents, who are scrambling to sign her to multimillion-dollar contracts.

West Coast PR man Hal Lifson said that CAA, ICM, William Morris, Paradigm and other agencies "smell books, talk shows and commentary for Fox and CNN" are lined up for Palin.

London, Nov 10: French first lady Carla Bruni has raised a fresh controversy by slamming Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for his “suntan” remark about U. S. President-elect Barack Obama.

The pop singer-wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy also denounced France for systemic racial discrimination.

It is feared that her comments may risk France’s split from the rest of Europe.

The 40-year-old supermodel has roused many with her outspoken support for a petition in favour of affirmative action in France in the wake of Obama’s presidential victory.

And the Italian-born icon of leftwing chic raised many eyebrows when she commented in Berlusconi''s joke, in which he had remarked that Obama had an admirable suntan.