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New Delhi, Feb. 2 : With the Union Cabinet recommending to the President to issue an ordinance to deal with crime against women effectively, former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and activist Kiran Bedi on Saturday said the government needs to give a holistic response to the society on Justice Verma Committee''s recommendations.

London, Feb 2 : Newly emerged before and after pictures of the monkey send by Iran into orbit have suggested that country's `much-boasted' space mission was fake, a report has said.

Footage on state television before the mission showed a grey primate wearing a mini space suit and strapped into a pod.

However, video of the animal astronaut being welcomed home appears to show he''d lost a distinctive mole and tufts of white hair had turned brown.

London, Feb 2 : Hillary Clinton has said goodbye to her colleagues in her farewell address to state department staff on her last day as the US' top diplomat.

In her address, Clinton acknowledged the attack on the US embassy in Turkey.

She pointed out that `we live in very complex and dangerous times, as we saw again just at our embassy in Ankara, where we were attacked."

Johannesburg, Feb 2 : Tech giant Apple has beaten Samsung to become the top US mobile phone seller in the final quarter of last year.

According to research firm Strategy Analytics, in the last quarter, the iPhone maker claiming a record share of 34 percent.

The firm said that Apple shipped an estimated 17.7 million iPhones as "robust demand" for internet connections on the move caused overall shipments of mobile phones to grow to 52 million in the United States, up four percent from the same three-month period in 2011, News24 reports.

Delhi/Hyderabad, Feb 2 : The Bhartiya Janata Party Core Group meet has decided to boycott all public programmes of Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde over his saffron terror remark.

Shinde had made the controversial remark on the final day of the Congress Party''s Chintan Shivir in Jaipur, Rajasthan.

It immediately invited condemnation from both the BJP and the RSS.

Tezu, Feb 02 : Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki has called upon the people to take full advantage of festivals by making relationships and intermingling for peaceful coexistence that would pave way for overall development in a congenial atmosphere.

Attending the `Mega Reh festival' - a novel concept of the Mishmis to celebrate Reh under one umbrella - at Teluliang near Tezu in Lohit district on Friday, Tuki said such festivals are great occasions to know each other, mingle and develop a relationship of mutual understanding and respect.