Rio de Janeiro - British driver Lewis Hamilton, the youngest-ever Formula 1 world champion, said in Brazil that he would have supported Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama, if he could vote in Tuesday's elections in the United States.
"I wish both candidates the best, but I really like Obama, and if I were (a citizen of) the United States I would have done my best to help him," the McLaren driver said, in comments that the Brazilian daily Folha de Sao Paulo published Tuesday.
Obama is seeking to become the first-ever black president of the United States.
Amsterdam - A memorial sculpture was unveiled on Tuesday in the southern-Netherlands city of Riel to honour the "humanity" of a soldier from the German army during World War II.
The initiator of the memorial in Riel in the southern Netherlands, Herman van Rouwendaal, 76, said the sculpture "honours the humanity displayed by a soldier of the German army, or Wehrmacht, during WW II".
Karl Heintz Rosch was an 18-year-old soldier when he saved the lives of two young Dutch children on October 6, 1944.
At a meeting in Chennai on Monday, Rajnikanth's fans were waiting eagerly to hear his decision that he, their 'Thalaivar', had decided to take the plunge into politics - expectation and excitement among them is very high about whether or not he will enter politics.
The actor, who had faced some heat from his fans for his ambiguous stand on politics, sent out mixed signals still another time, saying that he was "yet to acquire the skill to guide others," but he also quickly added that "if God tells me tomorrow, I will."
The latest James Bond flick, 'Quantum Of Solace', has smashed box office records on its opening weekend in the UK - taking £15.5m in three days. According to industry journal Screen Daily, Hollywood actor Daniel Craig's latest outing as James Bond took a further £14.2m in France and Sweden.
Former executive of Microsoft Corp., Jeff Dossett, has been hired by Yahoo Inc. to run the Internet giant's media operations. Dossett, an accomplished mountain climber, was most recently the general manager of Microsoft's MSN. com.
Dossett joins in place of another former Microsoft alumnus, Scott Moore, whose resignation is the latest in a series of high-level departures at the company this year. He will report to report to Hilary Schneider, executive vice president of Yahoo US.
In a last-ditch effort to win US antitrust approval, Yahoo Inc and Google Inc have drastically scaled back the scope of their search advertising deal, calls for Google to place ads next to some Web search results on Yahoo, lifting Yahoo's revenue.
The companies had said in June that the search ad deal was expected to boost Yahoo's cash flow by up to $450 million in the first year.
Rio de Janeiro - British driver Lewis Hamilton, the youngest-ever Formula 1 world champion, said in Brazil that he would have supported Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama, if he could vote in Tuesday's elections in the United States.
At a meeting in Chennai on Monday, Rajnikanth's fans were waiting eagerly to hear his decision that he, their 'Thalaivar', had decided to take the plunge into politics - expectation and excitement among them is very high about whether or not he will enter politics.
The latest James Bond flick, 'Quantum Of Solace', has smashed box office records on its opening weekend in the UK - taking £15.5m in three days. According to industry journal Screen Daily, Hollywood actor Daniel Craig's latest outing as James Bond took a further £14.2m in France and Sweden. 
Former executive of Microsoft Corp., Jeff Dossett, has been hired by Yahoo Inc. to run the Internet giant's media operations. Dossett, an accomplished mountain climber, was most recently the general manager of Microsoft's MSN. com.
In a last-ditch effort to win US antitrust approval, Yahoo Inc and Google Inc have drastically scaled back the scope of their search advertising deal, calls for Google to place ads next to some Web search results on Yahoo, lifting Yahoo's revenue.
