San Francisco  - A day after reporting a 13 per cent drop in profits, computer and printing giant HP announced a company-wide pay cut which it said was the best alternative to widespread job cuts.

The world's largest personal-computer maker said it will reduce the salary of CEO Mark Hurd's by 20 per cent, executives' pay by 10 per cent to 15 per cent, and most employees' salaries by 5 percent.

Warsaw - Polish and US officials signed a deal Thursday designed to increase cooperation between Polish and American special forces in their fight against global terrorism.

Polish Defence Minister Bogdan Klich and US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates signed the memorandum of understanding on the sidelines of a NATO meeting in Krakow.

Klich called the memo a "milestone" on the road to strengthening Polish special forces in modern operations.

"I think the value of this agreement will be shortly tested out during operations in Afghanistan," Klich said.

Washington, Feb. 18 : US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has revealed that she was taken aback when President Barack Obama offered her the post of his chief diplomat.

"I didn''t expect to end up working for the man who defeated me in last year''s Democratic primaries," the Washington Times quoted, Clinton, as saying.

Addressing a gathering of civil society leaders in Jakarta, she said: "In elections, there are winners and losers, and the losers should acknowledge their defeat and either move on, or try to bring about change by other peaceful means."

New York, Feb 19 : In wake of the ongoing recession, Playboy bosses are coming up with new strategies to keep the magazine's position stable in the market.

Interim chairman Jerome Kern said that Playboy Enterprises is open to listening to sale offers.

Kern was named non-executive chairman after Christie Hefner resigned in December, ending two decades running the magazine empire her father, Hugh, started in 1953.

Hugh Hefner still keeps an eye on every aspect of Playboy magazine as the top editor, from the lengthy articles to the jokes page, cartoons and the air-brushing of the nude layouts.

Washington, Feb 19 : American actor Michael Douglas has decided to dole out advice to Hollywood''s couples, urging them to be nicer to one another in order to save their marriages.

Douglas, 64, has himself been married twice, and he admits that the one way two stars can keep their relationship going is to show a little kindness to one another.

The actor has been married to Catherine Zeta-Jones since 2000, and he believes kindness is what keeps a marriage strong.

New York, Feb 19 : Angelina Jolie is moving to Washington Heights - but not permanently.

The actress will only be there to shoot scenes of her latest flick `Edwin A. Salt'.

The `Tomb Raider' star was recently spotted in the upper Manhattan neighbourhood scouting for locations, wearing dark shades, a black coat and black knee-high boots.

The Hollywood beauty checked out the luxury co-op building, The Riviera, on 157th and Riverside Drive.