Washington, October 28: Drew Barrymore has managed to get the best out of the cast of her directorial debut by flooding them with hugs and kisses.

The actress, who is directing the forthcoming comedy ‘Whip It!’, had made her cast felt at home.

"(She) is the biggest hippie I''ve ever met. I got more hugs and kisses with her than I get from my family,” Contactmusic quoted and rapper-turned-actress Eve as saying.

"Even though we were bruised and bashed around, Drew was there to hug us and give us love,” she added.

Mogadishu - Five suicide bomb attacks, including one on an Ethiopian embassy and one on a UN compound, rocked Somalia Wednesday, witnesses said.

Witness Farhaan Omaye told Deutsche Presse Agentur dpa that three near-simultaneous bombs went off in in Hargeysa, in the breakaway northern state of Somaliland.

The Ethiopian embassy and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) compound were targeted, as was Somaliland's presidential palace.

Two other bombs exploded in the semi-autonomous state of Puntland at the offices of the Puntland Intelligence Service in the port town of Bosasso, witness Mohamed Ali told dpa.

There was no immediate information on casualties.

Oslo - British actor Michael Caine is to co-host the upcoming Nobel Peace Prize Concert along with US actress Scarlett Johansson, organizers said Wednesday.

Caine, a two-time Academy Award-winning actor, appeared with Johansson in the 2006 movie The Prestige.

He was knighted in 2000, the same year he won an Oscar for best supporting actor for Cider House Rules.

Washington, Oct 29 : Engineers with NASA''s Phoenix Mars Lander mission are trying to extend the lander''s survival by gradually shutting down some of its instruments and heaters.

Originally scheduled to last 90 days, Phoenix has completed a fifth month of exploration in the Martian arctic. 

As expected, with the Martian northern hemisphere shifting from summer to fall, the lander is generating less power due to shorter days and fewer hours of sunlight reaching its solar panels.

New Delhi, October 29: Lindsay Lohan, who has reportedly dropped from size 10-12 to a drastic 6, has left friends worried over her diminishing health.

The ‘Mean Girls’ actress had earlier denied rumours claiming that she had fallen victim to an eating disorder and had been bitten by the size zero bug, reports China Daily.

Friends of the 22-year-old, who is believed to have lost 14 lbs, were concerned that the singer might have taken things too far with herself.