London, Nov 6 : She might have won many hearts with her songs and looks, but Mariah Carey was the happiest when she came to know her very special fan - the new president of the United States.

Barack Obama’s wife Michelle played Mariah’s hit song ‘Hero’ to him before the result was announced, a pal close to the singer has revealed.

"She was blown away when she heard. She is so honored to have played her part in such an occasion,” The Mirror quoted Mariah’s pal, as saying.

Glenmark Generics Ltd, a division of drug maker Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd, has made announcement about the launching of its anti-hypertension drug ‘Perindopril’ in the UK market.

London, Nov 6 : English rock band Status Quo have successfully raised 100,000 pounds by auctioning paintings and drawings of their singles and album covers created by musicians, artists and stars.<

Bilbao, Spain - Several political parties in Spain's northern Basque region on Thursday criticized the militant Basque separatist group ETA, which threatened with new attacks to force the government to negotiate with it.

ETA would not stay with its "arms crossed" but maintain a "resistance against repression," the group said in a communique made public by the Basque newspaper Gara on Wednesday.

ETA said it was convinced that Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's government would resume the attempt at negotiations it abandoned in December 2006 after ETA violated its ceasefire with a car bombing, killing two people at Madrid airport.

London, Nov 6 : Troubled popstar Amy Winehouse, it seems, can’t get enough of controversies – the singer has been caught on camera launching an unprovoked attack on paparazzi.

The star lunged at a photographer outside her house in Camden, North London, reports the Sun.

Witnesses say the singer was not being harassed or bullied by waiting paps before the incident.

This is not the first time that the ‘Back To Black’ hitmaker indulged in an uncalled for attack, as she had earlier hit a fan at a concert and even dancer Sherene Flash claimed to have been a victim to her attack.

Johannesburg - The last and the biggest of four special auctions of ivory stockpiles got underway in South Africa Thursday after a nearly two-hour delay caused when Asian buyers refused to bid for 51 tonnes of tusks in front of the media.

Around two dozen mainly Chinese and Japanese buyers threatened to boycott the one-off sale unless journalists were barred from the conference centre of the Reserve Bank in Pretoria, where the auction opened shortly after 10 am (0800 GMT).

The ivory was not on show in Pretoria. Instead, images of the tusks, which are being stored in Kruger National Park, were being displayed on a big screen.