Hamburg - Felipe Massa has finally stepped out of the shadows at Ferrari and goes into Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix in his native city with the chance of claiming the Formula One drivers' championship.

Born in Sao Paulo on April 25, 1981, Massa has managed 10 wins, 26 podium placings and 14 pole positions in an F1 career spanning six years and 105 races. He married Anna Rafaela Bassi on November 30, 2007.

Massa's driving career began with karting at the age of eight before moving up the ranks and signing for the Sauber F1 team in 2002, partnering Nick Heidfeld.

New Delhi, Oct 29 : Union Minister of Power Sushilkumar Shinde met Kazakhstan Prime Minister Karim Massimov at the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana today and discussed the bilateral and other issues of regional and international significance.

During the meeting, Shinde thanked Kazakhstan for its support on very important issues including in the Nuclear Suppliers Group and India''s membership in the United Nations Security Council.

He suggested that India could cooperate with Kazakhstan in setting up fertilizer plants there for exporting the fertilizers to India.

Prague - The Czech parliament's lower house Wednesday began debating Czech-US treaties on placing a planned US missile defence radar base on Czech soil.

Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek lacks a clear majority for the US plans in the closely divided lower house.

He cancelled a White House meeting with US President George W Bush planned for Wednesday in order to back the treaties in the chamber.

Several lawmakers for the Greens, the junior coalition partner, either reject the project or would like to wait for a new US administration before making the decision.

Topolanek asked lawmakers to pass the treaties in the first vote and postpone the second and final vote until after a new US president takes office.

New Delhi, Oct 29 : Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil today spoke to Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh following the incident of beating of a youth from Uttar Pradesh to death, in a local train in Mumbai.

Patil spoke to Deshmukh amidst suggestions from the Centre that the state administration should remain cautious and alert to possibilities of attacks on north Indians in the state, in the wake of death of a youth from Bihar in a police shootout on Monday.

Minister of State for Home Shakil Ahmed said that Maharashtra should be extra careful since these are very sensitive times.

London, Oct 29 : A new study has revealed that teenagers are increasingly becoming dull due to their overindulgence in TV watching and computer games.

Researchers at King’s College, London, have found that 14-year-old kids these days are only as bright as the average 12-year-old used to be way back in 1976.

The reason behind the decline in intelligence has been attributed to the fact that children these days spend more time playing video games and watch television, instead of doing practical activities to boost their brains.

However, the findings go against school exam results, which have seen a steady rise in grades across all age groups.

Washington, Oct 29 : Tennis referees are very likely to make mistakes when they call balls "out" than when they call them "in", mainly because of the inherent bias in people perceiving moving objects, according to a new report.

As it turns out, the study by researchers at the University of California, Davis, might just support the recent rule changes allowing professional tennis players to challenge the referees'' calls, thus helping them in exploiting the new findings to their advantage.