United Nations, Nov 6: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari will represent his country in an inter-faith conference to be held at the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York on November 12.

He would be among 30 world leaders, including Saudi King Abdullah, US President George W Bush and US President-elect Barack Obama at the inter-faith conference, the Daily Times quoted a UN spokesman as saying.

Washington, Nov 6 : Stomach cancer has been strongly linked to chronic inflammation. Now, a new study, led by Columbia University scientists, has shed light on how inflammation contributes to the cancer of stomach.

The research team found that increased levels of a single proinflammatory cytokine, an immune system protein called interleukin-1 beta (IL-1â), can start the progression towards stomach cancer.

London, November 6: Daniel Craig had bacon sarnies brought in from the UK for breakfast while filming for his latest Bond film ‘Quantum of Solace’ in Italy, according to reports.

The 40-year-old, who was recently deemed as the ‘greatest’ 007 Agent by the producer of the series, Michael G. Wilson, is said to be crazy for bacon ‘sarnies’.

The sixth actor to portray the fictional secret agent Bond reportedly insisted on having English breakfast and had vans loaded with breakfast food sent from home.

Now the Judges in India have demanded for a pay hike.

The demand has come after the recommendation of Sixth Pay Commission.

It is learnt that Chief Justice of India (CJI) has written to the Law Minister asking for a pay hike, which has put the central govt. in a dilemma.

In his four page letter the CJI wants his salary to be hiked to Rs 1.1 lakh, the same as the Governor.

 Earlier the CJI's basic salary was Rs 33 thousand per month like that of the Cabinet Secretary. But it was three thousand less than that of Governor's pay.

Lahore, Nov 6: Perhaps under ICC pressure against a proposal to appoint former Pakistan Test captain Salim Malik as the head coach of the National Cricket Academy (NCA), the PCB last evening said that it never appointed or offered to appoint him as the coach.

Malik, who had a life ban for alleged involvement in match-fixing overturned last month, had said on Tuesday that he had accepted an offer from the PCB to become head coach at the NCA.

Paris - A 24-hour strike by train conductors protesting new working hours severely disrupted French train service throughout the country on Thursday.

The French national rail service SNCF said only about half of all scheduled regional trains were running, while an average of two of three high-speed TGV trains were operating.

Suburban rail service in and out of Paris was also affected by the job action, with about one of two scheduled trains running on average.