London, Nov 5: Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding has finally opened up about her terrifying car crash last week, insisting that it was the “worst week of her life”.

The 26-year-old star emerged unharmed following a head-on collision with a double-decker bus.

“I had a nark on. I was moving house, we had the builders in and my mum was down to visit,” the Mirror quoted her, as saying.

“I jumped into the Range Rover and because I’m only just getting used to the new roads around my house, drove up a one-way street.

“Unfortunately, there was a bus hurtling down the other way. It rammed my car into these bollards on the side of the road.

Moscow - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called for the extension of his term in office to six years in his first state-of- the-nation address on Wednesday since succeeding Vladimir Putin.

Medvedev, 43, addressing the country's top political elite gathered in the Kremlin's most opulent St George Hall, said the proposed amendment was not a reform to the constitution, but rather a "correction."

The basic principles of the constitution would remain unchanged, he said, proposing to extend the presidential term to six from the current four years and the term for lawmakers in Russia's lower house of parliament to five.

Tokyo - People in the small north-central and southern Japanese towns of Obama exuberantly celebrated Wednesday as the communities' namesake was elected US president.

The Obama Boys and Girls were dancing their hula in north-central Obama city when the news broke that Barack Obama defeated rival Republican candidate John McCain and was declared president-elect.

During Obama's victory speech at Grant Park, Chicago, his fans in the far-eastern fishing town also joined the Obama chants.

"Mr Obama proved to us that we can make our dreams come true by taking action," an Obama resident said after the results came in.

Beirut - Now that the US has chosen Barack Obam

Washington - By picking Senator Joe Biden, 65, as his runnin

Researchers say increasing wait times for hernia surgery for infants and toddlers under two, not only leads to more emergency visits, but could also potentially damage testicles or ovaries

Inguinal hernia, a bulging tissue in the groin area that could also be present at birth, is one of the most common surgical childhood disorders responsible for vomiting, lack of bowel movements and other symptoms, leading to increasing number of emergency room visits.