Washington, March 31 : Francis Ford Coppola is set to be honoured with the Founder''s Directing Award at the San Francisco Film Festival.

The Godfather director will receive the award from the oldest continuously running film festival in the Americas at the Film Society''s Awards Night fundraiser on April 30.

The five-time Oscar-winner will join his predecessors, including Mike Leigh, Akira Kurosawa, Spike Lee, Werner Herzog, Robert Altman, and Clint Eastwood, reports Contactmusic.

Washington, Mar 31: A new study has delved into the emerging practice of drug delivery systems that use light to activate medications in the body.

The new process makes use of biocompatible materials that are sensitive to certain physiological variables or external physicochemical stimuli.

It is possible to control the delivery by using the changes in external or internal body conditions.

Already, there exist drug delivery systems that can respond to small changes in light, temperature, pH or the concentration of specific substances.

Washington, Mar 31: Supermodel Gisele Bundchen, who recently walked down the aisle with American footballer Tom Brady, is desperate to adopt a Brazilian child with him.

She revealed her intention of making a difference in the life of a Brazilian under-privileged child, and giving him the best in life.

"I would also love to adopt a child from Brazil. When you come from Sao Paulo, you see five-year-olds sniffing glue on the corner. You think, if you make a difference in the life of one of them, that makes your time on this Earth worthwhile," Contactmusic quoted her as telling Vanity Fair magazine.

Bundchen further said that she was also very fond of her husband's lovechild John Edward Thomas Moynahan.

Washington  - President Barack Obama on Monday approved a sweeping expansion of government land protections, safeguarding about 800,000 new hectares of parks, rivers, forests and mountains across the United States.

The legislation, which is a collection of about 150 smaller bills that had been in the works for years, was approved earlier this month with broad bipartisan support by both chambers of Congress.

The bill designates new wilderness areas across nine US states, including mountains in California, Virginia and Colorado, protecting those regions from any kind of commercial development.

Washington - Struggling US carmaker Chrysler

Washington  - The struggling US car industry will be given one last chance to restructure operations or lose the government's support, President Barack Obama announced Monday, declaring that General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC had so far failed to prove that they can survive.

In a dramatic government intervention in the industry, Obama called for a series of changes in the two companies' outdated business models and forced out long-time GM chief executive Rick Wagoner, who will be replaced by the company's president Fritz Henderson.