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.

Melbourne, Nov 5: After making headlines for her wild partying ways and unfortunate encounters with law, Lindsay Lohan has said that she has learnt her lesson.

The ‘Mean Girls’ actress claimed that her days of notorious partying, run-ins with the law and drug problems are far behind, as she now prefers to stay at home.

OKmagazine. com reported Lohan saying that she love spending her nights at home watching TV and hanging out with her gal pal Samantha Ronson.

"I watch a lot of TV. More than I've ever watched because I don’t go out every night," News. com. au quoted her as saying in an interview with US TV show Extra in an interview.

London, Nov 5 : A new study challenges claims made by previous researches that video games help boost memory power and multitasking ability.

The research team led by researchers from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign showed that playing video games doesn’t improve cognitive skills.

They found no improvement in memory skills or the ability to multitask after kids spent more than 20 hours on one of three video games.

The researchers claim that while a few hours playing an action game could improve concentration, but its not enough for other cognitive skills.

New York, Nov 5: Hugh Hefner’s former No1 girlfriend Holly Madison has taken a ‘jibe’ at the Playboy mogul, saying that she hasn’t had sex in a long time.

In an interview with In Touch magazine, Madison made a not-so-subtle attack at the octogenarian tycoon.

"I haven''t had sex in a really long time. And that''s the honest truth," she said.

Madison is quite excited about dating new men, the only condition being— they shouldn’t be like her ex-beau— ‘high maintenance’.

"It might be refreshing to date someone who is not high maintenance," The New York Daily News quoted Holly Madison as telling in an interview to Extra.