New York, April 7 : Actress Bai Ling has trashed rumours that she slept with `The Wrestler' star Mickey Rourke.

The `Toxic' star had raised eyebrows after she was invited by Rourke for an LA bash.

But her spokesman Anthony D''Alessandro dismissed the link up, saying only friendship was brewing between the two.

"While Bai Ling, who is single, has dated a lot during her career, she isn''t some ''whore'' who hooks on to rising actors," the New York Post quoted Anthony, as saying.

"She considers Mickey Rourke a friend.

New York, Apr 7 : Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan has apparently been left devastated by her split from lesbian lover DJ Samantha Ronson, for she has written disdainful remarks about the latter on her Twitter page.

"Being cheated on does wonders for you," the New York Daily News quoted Lohan as stating on her Twitter page.

New York, Apr. 7 : President Barack Obama's popularity with the American masses continues to be in ascendant mode, with the latest New York Times/CBS Poll pegging ratings at 66 percent.

Most Americans are confident that he is the right man for the job of rebuilding the nation's confidence.

Fully two-thirds said they approved of his overall job performance, especially with regard to his handling of the economy, foreign policy, Iraq and Afghanistan.

New York  - US stocks closed lower Monday, trimming some of last week's gains ahead of a batch of quarterly earnings reports for US companies.

Alcoa Inc, which will start the quarterly round of earnings reports Tuesday night, fell 3.4 per cent. The stock decline ended five straight days of gains amid some small signs that the US economy may be on the road to recovery.

Banking shares slid after a prominent Wall Street analyst warned of more massive losses despite the government's efforts to stabilize the financial sector.

New York - The five veto-wielding powers and Japan continued wrestling Monday over Japan's insistence on a sharpened UN resolution against North Korea for testing a ballistic missile over the weekend.

The UN ambassadors from the United States, Russia, China, France and Britain held their second negotiating session with Japan since Sunday, when a three-hour session of the full Security Council ended with no results.

New York  - An investment advisor who allegedly steered his clients' money to Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme was charged with fraud on Monday.

J Ezra Merkin invested more than 2.4 billion dollars of his clients' money with Madoff, who pleaded guilty last month to the 50- billion-dollar scheme in which funds from new investors were used to pay off earlier ones.