Washington, Nov 5 : After his victory, Barack Obama will inherit problems of historic proportions, with people at home expecting him to revive an economy experiencing some of the worst shocks in more than half a century.

Abroad, he has pledged to end the war in Iraq and defeat al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. He ran on a platform to change the country and its politics. Now he must begin to spell out exactly how.

After Chandrayaan-1 mission, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is all set to add another feather to its cap.

On the lines of Google Earth, ISRO will soon launch an IRS (Indian Remote Sensing) image portal called “Bhuvan”, which will provide online maps based on Geographical Information System (GIS).

New Delhi, Nov 5: Fans will again be rushing to cinema halls, as Walt Disney Pictures is set to launch a sing along version of hit movie “High School Musical 3: Senior Year.”

Just two weeks after the movie release, Disney is launching the singalong version on November 7 at 125 movie theatres in the United States.

The decision pretty evidently is based on the recent success of musicals like ‘Hairspray’ and ‘Mamma Mia!’, reports China Daily.

"We felt that the (''High School Musical 3'') movie's huge base of enthusiastic fans would really embrace a singalong version," President of Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, Mark Zoradi said.

London, Nov 5 : Obituaries from the 18th Century sparked ''modern celebrity celebrity'', researchers from Warwick University have claimed.

They say that public fascination with celebrity figures can be traced back to the rise of newspapers and magazines in the 18th Century and their popular obituaries section.

Obituaries gave an account of the lives of high profile personalities, who became the objects of scandal and public fascination, or the first "celebrities".

It is widely believed that the ''modern celebrity'' was born with the Romantic movement of the early 19th century, but now researchers have challenged that notion, insisting the cult of the celebrity began a century earlier.

Melbourne, Nov 5: Heidi Klum has poked ‘naked’ fun at Hollywood actor Tom Cruise''s air guitar scene from a 1980s movie ''Risky Business'' in a new commercial for Guitar Hero: World Tour.

Married to singer Seal, the 36-year-old supermodel can be seen donned in her underwear playing a ‘Guitar Hero’ guitar in the promotional clip.

First in the series of Guitar Hero, the game enables players to play drums and sing, along with the traditional guitar parts, reports The Courier Mail.

Recently, the Sean and Klum threatened to leave the US if Republican presidential candidate John McCain wins the election.

And last week, Klum triggered a furore after she dressed up as Hindu goddess Kali for a Halloween party.

Berlin - German political leaders congratulated Barack Obama on his election success Wednesday with Chancellor Angela Merkel saying Berlin looked forward to working together in complete trust with the new Democrat-led White House.

"The world faces considerable challenges at the start of your term in office," Merkel said, with German President Horst Koehler and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier also congratulating Obama on his victory.

In a letter to Obama, Koehler said he "could count on Germany as a reliable partner and long-standing friend" as he faced up to the challenges of office.