New York  - The UN Security Council on Tuesday praised the European Union for a well-done mission in the region between Chad and the Central African Republic, where an estimated 500,000 refugees need protection and aid.

The EU mission ended its one-year mission on Sunday and was replaced by UN peacekeeping operation composed of 5,200 military troops, drawn mostly from the departing EU military components.

New York  - UN General Assembly President Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann launched yet another campaign on Tuesday against Western governments, urging them to stop demonizing Iran and its leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has called for wiping Israel off the map.

Miguel d'Escoto, a former Sandinista foreign minister of Nicaragua in the 1980s and a Roman Catholic Maryknoll priest, has advocated reform and "democratization" of the United Nations since he assumed leadership of the 192-nation assembly last September.

New York, Mar 17: When American singer-songwriter Kelly Clarkson boasted that she could “talk about anything”, she was not joking.

Clarkson, 26, revealed about her health and personal hygiene, and also said that she never lied.

“I’ll talk about anything!” the New York Daily News quoted her as saying.

“I do not lie. Ever. I will tell my girlfriend if she looks fat in her jeans,” she added.

The first ‘American Idol’ also revealed to Blender magazine her tendency to use her shower to go tinkle.

New York, Mar 17: A new Web site has been launched, which helps people locate medical marijuana.

New York, Mar. 17: Moves by a German frozen food company to capitalize on President Obama''s popularity by marketing a new fried chicken product called "Obama Fingers," has sparking outrage from African-Americans.

"It''s racist and inappropriate," declared Brooklyn Councilman Charles Barron.

Calling for a boycott of the company''s products, Barron said: "We should do all that we can to see to it that no [company] disrespects the first black President."

Judith Witting, a sales manager for the company, Sprehe, said the connection between Obama and fried chicken - a stereotype long associated with African-Americans - never occurred to her.

New York, Mar 17 : Ex-Playboy centerfold Anna Nicole Smith's psychiatrist, who is charged with conspiracy for allegedly funneling drugs to the actress, has turned herself in at the Los Angeles Police Department''s Van Nuys station.

Khristine Eroshevich surrendered to police for excessively prescribing drugs to Smith, which led to her 2007 fatal overdose death, according to media reports.

Eroshevich, who was Smith''s next-door neighbor, faces six felony counts. Bail was set at 20,000 dollars, reports The New York Daily News.

As per prosecutors, Eroshevich, Smith''s boyfriend Howard K. Stern, 40, and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, 40, gave Smith thousands of pills in the years before her overdose death.