Los Angeles, Nov 21 : The verdict of Indian-born fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander’s case has left his family and friends devastated.

On the day of the verdict, Jon''s sister Sanjana sat in the front row bench holding hands with her mother Shashi, reports Indiawest. com

On either side of them, and all along the bench behind them, were family friends, many of whom had attended nearly every day of the trial and were convinced of Jon''s innocence.

Los Angeles - Rajon Rondo picked the right time to snap out of scoring slump.

Rondo scored a season-high 18 points and handed out eight assists as the defending NBA Champion Celtics routed the visiting Pistons 98- 80 in a rematch of last year's Eastern Conference finals.

In the previous four games, Rondo totaled just 13 points on an icy five-of 25 shooting. However, the speedy point guard connected on seven-of-11 shots, including a three-pointer, while managing to outscore Piston's hotshot Allen Iverson, 18-16.

"You never expect Rondo to outscore Iverson, but it's definitely a big plus on a night like this," said Celtics' leading scorer Paul Pierce, who finished with just nine points.

Los Angeles  - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says he is ready to take a job at the White House if president-elect Barack Obama feels he can be of service.

Schwarzenegger told Fox News Thursday that the two had talked earlier in the week in the wake of the devastating wildfires in California, when the dialogue turned to body-building and maybe a future job.

Los Angeles (dpa) - Sales at Dell Inc dropped 3 per cent in the quarter, but the company said Thursday that it increased its earnings per share by cutting jobs.

The Texas-based computer maker said that the global economic slowdown pushed third-quarter sales down to 15.16 billion dollars from 16.21 billion in the year-ago quarter.

Total earnings were 727 million dollars, down from 766 million dollars a year ago. But earnings per share rose 9 per cent to 37 cents, thanks to Dell's aggressive share buy back programme.

Los Angeles - Seventeen years after their last record, the super rockers of the 1980s, Guns N' Roses, Thursday released their long-delayed new album Chinese Democracy exclusively on website MySpace.

Also showing digital awareness was ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, who unveiled his new album on the social networking site. The album, Electric Arguments, is by McCartney's group The Fireman.

Los Angeles - Suri Cruise, the 2-year-old daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, has been named Hollywood's most influential baby by business magazine Forbes.

The title is far from academic. According to Forbes, the growing need to generate magazine sales and Web traffic in a softening economy, means that media outlets are increasingly turning to the star babies that readers can't resist.

The ranking was decided through an examination of media coverage and through a poll that judged public awareness of the babies and the popularity of their celebrity parents.