London - US presidential contender Barack Obama was holding talks with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Middle East Quartet representative Tony Blair in London Saturday on the final stage of a trip aimed at enhancing his foreign affairs image.

The Democratic Party Illinois Senator Friday had talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris. The tour had earlier included visits to Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel and Berlin.

London, July 26: Indian-born Lord Karan Billimoria is likely to give away a 30 percent stake of his world famous Cobra Beer to Diageo, the world’s biggest alcoholic drinks company and owner of Guin

London, July 26 : Najam Sethi, chief editor of the Daily Times, one of Pakistan’s most respected English language newspapers, has received death threats from militant groups for publishing a cartoon of a radical woman Islamic leader encouraging her pupils to wage holy war.

Sethi moves under heavy security after ultra-conservative Islamic elements warned him of serious consequences if he did not repent. Six army commandos now guard his house in Lahore, The Times reported.

London, July 26 : A team of European scientists working with COROT (Convection Rotation and planetary Transits) has discovered an exoplanet that seems to have a surprisingly powerful influence on its parent star, forcing the star to rotate at exactly the same rate as it orbits.

The planet’s day is also the same length, so the pair are fixed in a face-to-face whirl.

According to a report in New Scientist, the puzzle is how this planet, called COROT-Exo-4b, could have so dominated the vastly larger star, which is bigger than our Sun.

The new planet was discovered by the European COROT satellite, launched in 2006, which searches for transits – the telltale dimming of stars caused by planets passing in front of them.

London, July 26 : Chip maker Intel predicts that the world of mobile internet devices is set to explode in the short span on the next four years.

Intel has based its prediction on research it has carried out.

According to the data collected, portable net-enabled devices are set to grow to 1.2 billion by 2012.

"The demand is there and the need is there and our technology can meet those needs," the BBC quoted Intel''s Gadi Singer, head of Intel''s mobility group, as saying.

London, July 26 : The humble sound of a lawnmower is Britons’ favourite summer sound, says a new poll.

The seasonal noise beat the sound of pub garden chatter into second place.

Waves breaking on to a beach came third in the survey of 2,500 Britons.

The sound of sports such as people playing cricket and tennis came fourth and fifth on the list.

Animal sounds were also prominent with seagulls cawing continuing the summer beach association, while pigeons cooing also made the list.

Surprisingly only one in ten associated the sound of rain with summer.