London, Nov 13 : Glamour model Rebecca Loos has confessed to having a crush on singer Cheryl Cole.

The bisexual glamour model, who claims to have had a fling with England footballer David Beckham, says the Girls Aloud star is her ideal woman.

And she was delighted to see her replace Sharon Osbourne on the X Factor.

Rebecca and Sharon famously fell out when she appeared on ‘X Factor: Battle Of The Stars’ in 2006.

London, November 13 : Mariah Carey literally brings home the Christmas spirit – the stunning singer has confessed that she goes overboard with the festival’s celebrations – including giving her bedroom the North Pole makeover.

The actress-singer revealed that in addition to the snow-clad room at her Aspen residence, she loves to be welcomed at the airport with champagne and festive songs in her car.

London, Nov 13 : Politicians who run for Prime Minister or President must go for an independent health examination and make their medical records public to ensure their ability to govern, a doctor has urged on the online British Medical Journal.

John McCain, the Republican candidate who lost the battle for US Presidency to Barack Obama, did not reveal his malignant melanoma diagnosis, despite happily revealing his medical records from Vietnam.

London, Nov. 13 : British police have arrested the mother of a footballer accused of murdering 19-year-old Amy Leigh Barnes at her home in Farnworth, Bolton.

Forty-nine-year-old Melda Wilks, a police community officer who helped schools in the area combat knife crimes, was arrested three hours after her 21-year-old footballer Ricardo Morrison appeared in court to answer questions regarding the murder, he has been accused of perpetrating.

Wilks was last night being questioned on suspicion of assisting an offender, reports The Telegraph.

London , Nov 13 : At a time when pressure is mounting on the Gordon Brown government to increase the number of troops in Afghanistan, a new survey has found that two-third Britishers, mostly young, want withdrawal of troops from the war-torn country within a year.

The ICM poll of 1013 people, carried out for a BBC, found that 68 per cent of the people in the UL believe that UK troops should withdraw within 12 months. Among men the figure was 59 per cent while 75 per cent of women agreed with the statement.

London, Nov 13: Two Muslim twin sisters, who won 10 million pound pay-off from London’s top securities firm, have planned to make sensational claims about a culture of drugs, hookers, porn and strip clubs.

Samira and Hanan Fariad, 31, had made more than 200 sensational claims like top brokers used cocaine, and subjected them to unbearable levels of race and religious discrimination. They are also set to say that staff regularly took clients to a lap-dance club

They alleged that former bosses at Tradition Securities and Futures turned a blind eye to the deplorable behaviour, The Sun reported.

The twins agreed the payout with Tradition Securities and Futures this week in Britain’s biggest job compensation deal.