Washington, Mar. 29 : US First Lady Michelle Obama has spent the past month travelling to North Carolina to rally military families, standing next to Hillary Clinton to encourage women to get politically active, showing up at a home-building site on the National Mall, visiting a District of Columbia school to talk up good grades and shovelling dirt for a "kitchen garden" at the White House.

In between, the Council of Fashion Designers of America announced that it would honour her with a special tribute for her contribution to the fashion industry, reports Politico.

Washington  - Need a copy of the receipt for an order you placed online? Usually, you get a printable copy from the vendor, but if not, you can save a record for yourself. Just open the File menu of your web browser, click Save As, and put a copy of the file into a folder on your hard drive. Save it as HTML so that when you open it up again, it will look largely the same as it did when you were online.

Washington - The United States on Saturday invited 16 other major economies and the United Nations to Washington to prepare for international efforts to reduce climate changing greenhouse gas emissions.

The White House said it would ask the countries' leaders and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to send representatives to Washington on April 27-28 for the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate to prepare for UN climate change negotiations in Copenhagen set for December.

Washington  - The space shuttle Discovery landed safely at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Saturday.

Commander Lee Archambault guided the shuttle to a picture-perfect landing at 1914 GMT, ending the shuttle's 13-day mission to the International Space Station.

"Welcome home after a mission to bring the ISS to full power," the NASA ground crew said, adding a special welcome to astronaut Sandra Magnus, who returned to Earth after spending 129 days living aboard the ISS.

"Thank you very much. It's good to be back home," Archambault replied.

Washington  - The space shuttle Discovery landed safely at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Saturday.

Commander Lee Archambault guided the shuttle to landing at 1914 GMT, ending the shuttle's 13-day mission to the International Space Station.

The landing had been delayed by around an hour and a half due to poor weather from an originally scheduled 1740 GMT touchdown, due to thick cloud cover.

Washington - The space shut