New York, Dec 8 : Classic toys are making a comeback this Christmas, with American kids jotting them down on their wish lists as gifts they would like Santa to bring them.

As per a recent eBay survey, Barbie dolls and board games are back in demand, and at the Times Square ‘Toys “R” Us’ store, kiddies can be seen picking out toys that had once been famous during their parents’ time.

“I want Hungry Hungry Hippos,” the New York Daily News quoted Nicholas Campos, 4, from Brooklyn, as naming the ''70s board game.

“I always wanted to play it!” he said.

His 6-year-old sister Ariel chose an Easy-Bake Oven over the other toys.

New York, Dec 7 : After spending 30 years in coma, Manhattan socialite Martha "Sunny" von Bulow died in a New York nursing home. She was 76.

She spent the last decade at an upper East Side nursing home, surrounded by pictures of grandchildren she never got to meet.

Sunny was found unconscious in the marble-tiled bathroom of Newport, R. I., estate in December 1980.

Her second husband, Claus von Bulow was convicted of trying to kill her with an insulin overdose - then acquitted after an appeal got him a retrial.

The events were turned into a 1990 Hollywood film, ‘Reversal of Fortune’.

New York, December 7: Actor Bill Cosby’s extremely popular family sitcom ‘The Cosby Show’ that reigned the 1980’s is said to have a revival as a porn spoof.

The veteran’s TV comedy, which had run for eight seasons on the NBC television network, had beem amongst the biggest TV hits spanning from 1984 to 1992, reports the New York Post.

The household comedy, which focused on the Huxtable family, an upper-middle class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York, may now be turned into "Not the Cosbys XXX".

The production will reportedly have an actor mimicking the comedian’s signature Cliff Huxtable character while being in the middle of the X-rated action, reports avn. com.

New York, December 7 : President-elect Barack Obama’s speechwriter has sent an apology to Hillary Clinton for stretching out to feel a cardboard imitation of the junior United States Senator.

Jon Favreau, who has been appointed as the director of White House speechwriting, had been snapped as he was touching the lively reproduction of Clinton at a recent gathering.

The 27-year-old’s inappropriate photo had hit cyberspace through Facebook though it was later pulled off, reports the New York Post.

New York, Dec. 7 : U. S. President George W Bush would not have ordered the invasion of Iraq had intelligence shown that Dictator Saddam Hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction, claims Karl Rove, his former chief adviser and close confidant.

According to The Sunday Telegraph, Rove made the claim as the president''s inner circle launched an unofficial "Bush legacy project".

New York, Dec. 7 : For any lasting peace, India and Pakistan would have to settle their dispute over Kashmir, says a New York Times editorial, adding that Pakistan must come to terms with the fact, that it had no option but to root out the terrorist network from its soil.

"The leaders of Pakistan''s military and intelligence services must finally realize that the extremists pose a clear and present threat to their own country''s survival," it adds.

Though Pakistan has fiercely denied any role in the terrorist attacks on Mumbai, the NYT says that any act of terrorism is horrifying, and the potential aftermath even more so.