New York, Mar 26 : Too busy to offer prayers? Well, don't fear the Lord, for He has come up with a unique idea to make you stay connected with him: InformationAgePrayer. com!

A website that charges you a monthly fee to say prayers for you has been launched.

A typical charge is 4.95 dollars per month to say three prayers specified by you each day. All you need to do is select your religion and the prayers you want, reports The New York Daily News.

New York, Mar. 26 : A New York strip club that Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd once visited in his youth, has invited him and his wife Therese Rein to a special dinner.

It maybe recalled that Rudd had admitted to doing an infamous pole-dance at the same club.

Rolling out the red carpet, the strip club formerly known as Scores has offered to entertain the VIP - and his wife - with dinner and a private room during his time in Manhattan.

New York, Mar 26 : A representative for Broadway's `revived' American tribal love-rock musical `Hair' has shot down reports that the actresses playing the unshaven ''60s hippies were being fitted with pubic hairpieces.

Rumours were rife that actresses in the rock musical were being fitted with pubic hairpieces so they wouldn''t have to give up their Brazilian waxes.

However, a spokesperson for the show has denied reports insisting that all the hair will be strictly home grown.

New York, Mar 26 : Bruce Willis didn't meet his new wife Emma Heming through friends, as his pals have said, infact, the actor handpicked his ladylove while he was casting for his film ''Perfect Stranger''.

The 54-year-old actor was apparently looking for a date when he was casting for the film-which starred him and Halle Berry, and set his eye on Heming when she was finalised for a minor speaking role.

New York - US stock indices made gains Wednesday after government figures showed demand is rising for long-lasting goods and housing.

Durable goods orders increased 3.4 per cent in February, and purchases of new homes jumped 4.7 per cent, adding to a spate of slightly more positive economic news coming out of the United States in the last week.

The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 89.84 points, or 1.17 per cent, to 7,749.81, rallying during the final hour from a more than 100-point drop earlier in the afternoon.

New York  - Humanitarian workers and United Nations personnel on diplomatic missions have become prime targets for kidnapping, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday on the International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members.

Nineteen UN staff members have been arrested, detained or are missing, Ban said, urging governments and non-government organizations to help locate and free them.