London - Chelsea defender Alex wants to leave the club in January, according to B

London - Wigan Athletic manager Steve Bruce stressed on Thursday his determination to retain his star players in the January transfer window.

England striker Emile Heskey has been linked with a move to Aston Villa, while Ecuador winger Antonio Valencia has attracted a number of admiring glances.

"We are building the nucleus of a very good team here, and the last thing I want to do is dismantle it," Bruce told Wigan Today.

"The big clubs are circling around us and they are at our games every week because our young players are terrific prospects.

London, December 11 : A rare blue grey diamond bearing 300 years of royal history and weighing 35.56 carat diamond has set a world record after fetching 16.3 million pounds at an auction.

The Wittelsbach Diamond, which had been in the Wittelsbach family since 1722, had been expected to gather up to 9 million pounds at Christie's Geneva auction, reports the Telegraph.

London, Dec 11 : English singer-songwriter Robbie Williams has expressed his wish to rejoin his former boy band ''Take That''.

Williams, 34, who recently bought a 7million pounds historic Wiltshire mansion in Britain, has been living in LA for five years, but he now wants to shift base and be with the band again.

"I''d love to be in the band again," the Sun quoted him as saying.

"I''d like to think we''d be the only band in the history of music to get together because of artistic differences," he said.

London, Dec 11 : A star-studded Gillette advert featuring Tiger Woods, Roger Federer and Thierry Henry has been named as the `worst TV advert of the year'.

The 2008 razor commercial starring the golfer, tennis champion and former Premiership football star, was voted as the worst commercial of 2008 for its cringe-worthy imagery.

"The Gillette ad is an own goal, a double fault and a bunker shot rolled into one," The Telegraph quoted campaign editor Claire Beale as saying.

London, Dec 11 : A new type of slang, dubbed the ''tech slang'', is making its way into people''s inboxes, as more people are using technology driven terms in messages, according to a new study.

So, from now on, if you read "404" in your mobile inbox, it will mean "clueless," inspired by the error message given when a browser cannot find a webpage.

According to slang lexicographer Jonathon Green, some such terms and abbreviations have evolved as a result of the limited speed and space afforded by text messaging.

However, an Australian study found that reading "textese" takes more time and results in more mistakes.