New Delhi, Oct 31 : The Home Secretary-level talks between India and Nepal will be held here today.

The Indian delegation will be led by Union Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta and Nepalese delegation by their Home Secretary Govinda Prasad Kusum.

The two sides will discuss a broad range of issues relating, inter-alia, to security, border management, and training and capacity-building of officials or police in Nepal.

Effective cooperation for combating terrorist activities and trans-border crimes will be high on the agenda.

The two sides will also review the progress in implementing the decisions arrived at the last Secretary-level talks held on September 25 in Kathmandu.

Winchester, Virginia - A Barack Obama supporter stopped by the campaign's headquarters in historic Winchester in western Virginia, just ahead of the election, looking for a yard sign to trumpet her support, but walked away disappointed.

The campaign had run out of signs, which dot yards and roads across the United States with candidates' names ahead of elections. The McCain headquarters in the traditionally conservative city, population 25,000, had also given out all its signs.

Berlin - Berlin's fabled Tempelhof Airport ceased 85 years of operations on Thursday, with its last scheduled flight taking to the skies after the city's mayor declared time was up for the site.

The airport, which is surrounded by multi-storey apartment blocks, was once the entry point for 2.3 million tons of airborne relief during the 1948-49 Berlin Airlift. Future use of the historic site has not been decided.

Washington - Republican presidential candidate John McCain and Democratic rival Barack Obama continued their last-ditch attempts to appeal to wavering voters in swing states on Thursday as the US economy took another step toward recession.

Obama planned stops in Florida, Virginia and Missouri and jumped on new government figures that showed the economy contracted 0.3 per cent in the third quarter as proof that a change in approach was needed.

Los Angeles - On the bucolic campus of Occidental College on the outskirts of Los Angeles, students this week were busy with their usual important activities: studying, hanging out and spending hour after hour working the phones in support of Barack Obama.

Their mission: to call fellow students around the country and urge them to go to the polls.

It's no surprise that students at Obama's alma mater are pulling out all the stops in support their most famous alumnus.

Beirut - Regardless of whether Republican John McCain or Democrat Barack Obama becomes president of the United States, the change in US policy toward Lebanon will be minimal, according to analysts in Beirut.

Differences on other Middle Eastern issues aside, it is expected that the two US senators will follow the same policies on Lebanon. Under either, Washington will continue to back Lebanese state sovereignty, call for the country's independence from former power broker Syria and push for Hezbollah's disarmament, analysts say.