London, Oct 30 : English pop singer Victoria Beckham is all set to be the new model for Emporio Armani women''s underwear.

Posh, who once said, “I look really awful naked”, has been chosen by Giorgio Armani to model his new range of women’s underwear collection.

She will be making her debut on posters, billboards, and in glossy magazines early next year.

“Who better than Victoria Beckham to launch our new global Emporio Armani underwear campaign,” the Telegraph quoted Armani as saying.

“Victoria is a style icon, a dynamic lady whose influence and recognition will add great excitement to the continued international growth of our underwear business,” he added.

London, Oct 30 : An advertisement that has pop paedophile Gary Glitter’s song in it has been banned after reports that he could earn 100,000 pounds in royalties caused fury.

The ad, for computer firm Hewlett Packard UK, uses a cover version of Glitter’s 1973 song ‘Do You Wanna Touch Me’ to promote TouchSmart TV.

“This is a sensitive issue and HP takes the matter very seriously,” the Daily Star quoted a HP spokeswoman as saying.

“To reassure you, all relevant advertising has been withdrawn in the UK and the issue is being urgently reviewed in other countries,” she added.

The advert features in a marketing campaign, being screened across America.

Seoul - South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc, the world's second largest maker of computer chips, Thursday posted net losses of 1.67 trillion won (1.3 billion dollars) for the third quarter owing to price slumps and write-offs.

After profits of 168 billion won in the third quarter of 2007, the company reported losses for the fourth consecutive quarter, more than doubling the losses posted for the previous quarter of 711 billion won.

London, Oct 30 : English footballer David Beckham was spotted ogling at sexy cheerleaders during a basketball game this week.

Beckham, who was watching the LA Lakers take on the Portland Trailblazers at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles, had a perfect view of them as they paraded about scantily dressed.

“David had the best seat in the house,” the Sun quoted an onlooker as saying.

“All the girls were hot. However there appeared to be one sexy brunette who particularly caught his eye. She was gorgeous and had curves in all the right places,” the onlooker added.

Melbourne, Oct 30 : Scientists in Melbourne have given cancer patients a ray of hope after they found that a new combination drug therapy would revolutionize the treatment for the deadly disease.

Boffins at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research have found that drug-resistant melanoma and colon cancer cells can be successfully treated using a combination of two new drugs.

With the help of a mouse model of the disease, scientists combined a cancer inhibitor drug, which slows cancer cells’ growth, with a drug that harnesses the body''s cell-killing machinery to induce the death of the cancer cells.

Nairobi - Kenyan police have barred the media from the home of the grandmother of US presidential hopeful Barack Obama in the run-up to next week's US elections, news reports said Thursday.

Local and international journalists have been increasingly pestering Sarah Obama and her family in the small village of Kogelo in western Kenya as the elections approach.

Police now have placed an embargo on all interviews with or photographs of Senator Obama's extended family in Kenya until after the voting.