Sydney - An Australian circus performer aboard 17-metre poles set a world record for stilt walking Sunday in Adelaide.

National champion Roy Maloy succeeded in walking the requisite five steps on stilts the height of a four-storey building.

The stilts weighed nearly 60 kilograms, and it took Maloy 11 attempts to get moving.

Dhaka - Two Bangladeshi development workers abducted in Afghanistan were released in the east-central province of Ghazni, officials said Sunday.

"The unidentified abductors left them in front of our Gazni office Saturday evening, 10 days after they were picked up," said Zia Hashan, communications manager of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, a Dhaka-based non-governmental organization.

Akhter Ali and Mohammad Shahjahan Ali, who have been working for the committee in Afghanistan for three years, were kidnapped by unidentified gunmen on October 

Abu Dhabi seems to be the newest hotshot places for Bollywood film
producers as the majority of the bigwigs in recent times have started
filming at its striking locales.

But a bond, which has got
stronger is of the ace Bollywood beauty Lara Dutta, who had not only
shot for her hit comedy film ‘Partner’ in 2007, but is also currently
shooting for her forthcoming David Dhawan movie “Do Knot Disturb.”

On
this, Lara said, “This place is like a lucky mascot as my last release
also had many portions shot here and it turned out to be a super-hit.

London, November 2 : Dame Judi Dench might not be seen playing the signature boss to James Bond in the next 007 film.

The veteran actress, who has played ‘M’ in the last two Bond movies, revealed that she doubted the possibility of her being in the future movie.

“I don’t think I will be in it. I am nothing to do with it – but of course I will do it if I am asked,” the Daily Star quoted the 73-year-old as saying.

Meanwhile, James Bond star Daniel Craig had revealed that the next sequel in the 007 series might be expected to have more steamy action, with the re-introduction of Miss. Moneypenny’s role.

New York - The machinists at Boeing Co ended a 58-day strike that idled the aircraft maker's factories and cut into its earnings as they ratified a contract with increased wages and pension payments.

The four-year contract, longer than the traditional three-year agreements, was approved by 74 per cent of union voters Saturday, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said.

The first of the 27,000 machinists who had walked off the job are to return Sunday, but it was expected that it would take weeks or months to clear Boeing's backlog of orders.

London, Nov 2 : Even as it’s less than two days to go for the US presidential polls, the Republicans have in their last ditch effort to score a lead over Democratic nominee Barack Obama, have approached an Oxford academic with a whipping 10,000 dollar fee to “prove” through a computer technique that Obama’s autobiography “Dreams from My Father, and Fugitive Days” was penned by a former terrorist William Ayers.

According to latest polls, Obama is ahead of his Republican rival John McCain by at least six points.