New York - Florida's Freedom Bank was the 17th US bank to be seized by regulators this year amid the widening credit crisis and worst housing slump since the Great Depression of the 1930s, reports said Saturday.

The state's Office of Financial Regulation on Friday closed the bank, which had 287 million dollars in assets and 254 million dollars in deposits, according to a statement from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC).

Freedom Bank was to be acquired by Fifth Third Bank of Grand Rapids, Michigan, which will buy 36 million dollars of assets. Fifth Third was to pay a premium of 1.16 per cent, about 2.9 million dollars, to assume the deposits, FDIC said.

Washington - The million-dollar bounty is still up for grabs.

That's the amount US publisher Larry Flint is offering "for documented evidence of illicit intimate relations with a congressman, senator or other prominent officeholder."

With full-page adverts in the Washington Post, the publisher of the sex magazine Hustler sought to stimulate anonymous tips about the Capitol Hill scene, in an effort to grab headlines and shock the country before Tuesday's presidential elections.

Nothing provokes more interest in the United States than the dirty laundry of politicians - precisely because an extremely decent citizen's life is expected of every candidate.

Washington - Five months ago, at the start of the US general election, much of the talk was of disaffected Hillary Clinton voters leaving the Democratic Party and throwing their weight behind Republican John McCain.

Female voters who backed Clinton's historic candidacy were enticed by McCain's selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as a running mate. The McCain campaign also hoped working class voters who plumped for Clinton could be convinced to switch sides in a repeat of the 1980s elections that swung on so-called "Reagan Democrats."

Washington - Leaving nothing to chance and taking no vote for granted, the two US presidential candidates kept up a frenetic pace Saturday as they plunged into the last weekend of campaigning before Tuesday's election.

Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama is increasing his lead over Republican rival John McCain as the campaign enters its final phase, according to a poll published Saturday by the Washington Post.

It said 53 per cent of the electorate would vote for Obama, compared to 44 per cent for McCain. Obama also led in several key states seen as decisive in the election.

A recent study conducted by Dr. Jan Shifren, of Massachusetts General's Obstetrics and Gynecology Service and team surveyed 32,000 women aged 18 and older, across the U.S. The participants were asked standardized questions about their sexual health. The survey also gauged the women’s distress related to their sex lives — including feelings of anger, guilt, frustration, and worry.

Overall, 43.1% women reported some kind of sexual problem; 39% had diminished desire; 26% had arousal problems, and 21% had problems with achieving orgasm.

But luckily only 12% suffered from personal distress due to these problems.

The latest from writer-director Kevin Smith , “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” is a raunch-heavy comedy. The story revolves around two childhood friends who decide to make a dirty movie together. What compels them to do so and how they fall in love along the way expresses the comic as well as satirical character of the movie.

Zack and Miri played Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks met in kindergarten. They share a platonic love as well as a room since high school, which is a decade ago. Their room  nearly shanty, infested by rats is a rented accommodation in Pittsburgh.  Both work at a franchise coffee shop. Both Zack and Miri are presented to be underachievers.