New York  - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday condemned the aerial bombing of rebel positions by the Sudanese government and fresh clashes between rebel groups in the troubled Darfur region.

The Sudanese government confirmed that its air force bombed positions of the rebel group Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) in south Darfur's Muhajeria area on Tuesday. The UN said JEM rebels also clashed with its rival, the Sudan Liberation Army/Minni Minawi, on Thursday.

New York - US banking giant JP Morgan Chase has posted a positive result for the final quarter of 2008, despite heavy investment banking losses due to the ongoing financial crisis, the company announced on Thursday.

In a statement, the bank said that it posted a net income of 702 million dollars in the fourth quarter of 2008, compared with 3 billion dollars in the same period of 2007.

New York - The economic crisis has hit the personal computer market, with sales figures in the fourth quarter of 2008 stagnating for the first time in five years, two US research companies reported Thursday.

Sales figures compared by Gartner Inc to the previous years showed a slight quarterly increase of 1.1 per cent to 78.1 million units.

Meanwhile, analysts from IDC identified a shrinking of the market by 0.4 per cent in the quarter.

New York, Jan 15 : The saying `All That Glitters is not gold' fits perfectly for the Playboy mansion, says former playmate Kendra Wilkinson.

Kendra revealed that she only got to see Hugh once a day, and her days mostly were unexciting, thus she sneaked out of the mansion to have fun.

"I had to have sex every now and then, so I had to kind of sneak it," the New York Daily News quoted Kendra, as telling US weekly.

New York, January 15 : It might be hard to imagine James Bond without weapons, but `Casino Royale' star Daniel Craig has revealed he fears guns in real life.

The Brit actor stars alongside Liev Schreiber and Alexa Davalos in the new World War II film `Defiance', which is based on the Bielski brothers-three Jewish fighters from Poland who escape from the Nazis and fight back to rescue fellow Jews.

Craig revealed that though the film required a storm of bullets, but he would rather prefer to be far from the violence in real life.