On her thirty-fifth birthday on Saturday, November 1, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been sent warm wishes from family and friends. Big B the superstar and Aishwarya's father-in-law, has specially expressed his heart-warming wishes on the occasion.

The blue-eyed beauty is happily married to the handsome Abhishek Bachchan since early 2007. In fact, right from schooling to modeling to stardom and marriage, she has always made the right decisions and is always in the news!

While stumping for Republican presidential nominee John McCain in Ohio, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a former bodybuilder, also had some fun at the expense of McCain's rival, Barack Obama, and Obama's slight frame.

During his 2006 re-election campaign, Schwarzenegger had styled himself as a post-partisan centrist eager to shed party labels and rise above partisan differences. This time around, he tossed aside his rhetoric about bringing Democrats and Republicans together.

Lusaka - Despite leading in most polls, Zambia's main opposition party Saturday called for a delay in the announcement of presidential election results, citing irregularities in the handling of the results.

Given Lubinda, spokesman for the Patriotic Front (PF) called on Zambia's election commission (ECZ) to immediately stop the announcement of the election winner.

Lubinda told journalists Saturday that his party has credible information that the elections have been rigged and the opposition party will not accept the outcome.

The final vote tally is expected to be announced Saturday evening.

Mumbai, Nov 1 : The three accused in the September 29 Malegaon blasts - Pragya Singh Thakur (a god woman), former Army official Ramesh Upadhyay and Sameer Kulkarni - on Saturday underwent polygraph tests at a Forensic Science Laboratory in Mumbai.

Some of the accused had the tests performed on them on Friday, according to reports.

However, narco-analysis was still to be performed on them.

Five persons, including the god woman, have been arrested for planting a motorcycle bomb in Maharashtra’s Malegaon town, which claimed six lives.

Bangkok - Thailand's fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra on Saturday addressed a crowd of more than 60,000 supporters in a phoned-in call in which he said only a "royal pardon" or "people's power" could bring him back to Thailand.

On October 21 the Supreme Court for Political Office Holders sentenced Thaksin to two years in jail for abusing his power as prime minister in 2003 by allowing his wife to purchase a plot of land at a government auction.