The nun who was raped by a rampaging mob in Kandhamal district of Orissa on August 25 finally broke her silence. On Friday she accused the Orissa police of completely failing to protect her and demanded that the case be transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation. 

Her face covered, Sister Meena Lalita Barwa made a statement at a press conference under the auspices of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India. 

Cricketer Harbhajan Singh displayed his disapproval of Gilchrist’s comment on Sachin by lashing out at him in media.

“He should not be talking about Sachin. It is all rubbish," Harbhajan told the leading newspaper, the Age. "We don’t respect him. He pretends to be a saint and people say he walks when he nicks, but why did he appeal when batsmen don't nick?” 

“He always changes his mind according to a situation.” added Harbhajan.

Catherine Zeta Jones is in negotiations with director Steven Soderbergh over starring in his 3-D rock-musical extravaganza on the legendary Egyptian queen and her ill-starred love affair with Roman Marc Antony. Reportedly, Soderbergh would like Hugh Jackman to play Marc Antony to Zeta Jones Cleopatra. 
  

George W. Bush continues to be poked fun at; as last nights' Saturday Night Live (SNL) mocked the way the Republican Party kept Bush far away from the McCain / Palin presidential campaign. 
  
Will Ferrell playing Bush opened the skit by endorsing Sarah Palin and John McCain, though only Palin played by Tina Fey could be found. A Palin look alike Fey admits to being busy 'traveling around this great country' and 'doing a little shopping', though her running mate McCain went missing, soon after hearing Bush's endorsement of the pair, 'last seen traveling on foot through the Adirondacks'. 
  

Tblisi/Moscow - A high-ranking local politician was killed Saturday in an explosion in Georgia along with another resident of a community just outside the breakaway region of Abkazia, local media reported.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili dubbed it a "terrorist act" and called together his security council in the capital Tblisi.

Abkazian leaders denied involvement in the attack.

New York prosecutors are investigating allegations made by Michael Mineo, 24, of Brooklyn that last week, he was beaten and sodomised by police officers in a Brooklyn subway station. 
  
According to Kevin Mosley, his lawyer, on the afternoon of 15th October 2008, several uniformed police officers approached Mineo near Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, who they suspected was smoking marijuana. Forcing him to the ground and handcuffing him, they pulled his pants down and shoved something forcibly into his rectum. Issuing him a summons for disorderly conduct, the police left him writhing in pain.