According to a new research article, enough amount of Vitamin D intake may reduce the risk of diabetes and other diseases like heart disease, cancer and osteoporosis. By taking Vitamin D, the complications in a diabetic patient can be reduced.

San Francisco - Even mighty Google is feeling the effects of the global recession. The advertising and software giant is cutting 100 recruiting jobs and plans to shutter three engineering offices in Norway, Sweden and Texas, the company announced.

Laszlo Bock, Google's vice president of people operations, said in a blog post late Wednesday that since Google is now hiring at a reduced rate it needs fewer people to hire people.

The company had a huge number of recruiters working as it scaled up from a two person operation to a workforce of over 25,000 in just a decade.

Washington - A Senate committee voted Thursday to confirm Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, sending her nomination to the full chamber for final approval.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 16-1 to make Clinton the next top US diplomat. The vote in the full Senate could come before president-elect Barack Obama is sworn into office on Tuesday.

Obama tapped his formal rival for the Democratic presidential nomination to head foreign policy, bringing in a face familiar to the rest of the world and someone who has built strong foreign policy credentials during her time in the Senate.

Washington, Jan 15 : Troubled singer Amy Winehouse has been honoured for her performance at the Grammy Awards last February.

Her show has been nominated as part of Britain''s Creativity + Business International Network''s 2008 review, by Universal Music Group, the Rehab hitmaker''s record label.

Winehouse was due to perform in the US, but because of her 2007 for possession of cannabis in Norway, she was denied a visa and performed her hits `You Know I''m No Good' and `Rehab' via satellite from London.

Universal boss Lucian Grange said that the singer''s talents were worthy of the honour, which had been set up to focus on the UK''s creative economy, produced through the art and entertainment industries.

Washington, Jan 15 : Indian actress Freida Pinto was left red-faced after she met her idol actress Angelina Jolie, as her mouth was full of pastry at the time.

The `Slumdog Millionaire' star was surprised to see Jolie at a luncheon in Los Angeles, but as she did not have the nerve to talk to her, she made her way to the buffet instead.

She was so engrossed in food that she never noticed the `Tomb Raider' star making her way towards her.

Washington, Jan 15 : American actress Sigourney Weaver hopes that her first TV movie `Prayers for Bobby' will help gay teens when they come out about their sexual orientation to their parents.

Weaver plays the real-life mother of tragic gay youth Bobby Griffith, who committed suicide in the 1970s after his religious parents spent years trying to `cure' him.