Brussels - The European Commission on Tuesday urged United States lawmakers to assume their responsibilities and swiftly approve a massive rescue plan amid global financial turmoil.

"The turmoil that we are facing has originated in the US, and has become a global problem," said commission spokesman Johannes Laitenberger.

Washington, Sept. 30 : John McCain’s move to select Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate may have seemed brilliant to most people a month ago, especially Republicans keen to kick start their campaign to wrest the White House for another four years, but now, according to CBS, that first publicity attracting stunt is coming unstuck.

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Washington, Sept. 30 : The House of Representatives vote scuttling the 700 billion dollar financial bailout plan is being described as one of the most stunning debacles of modern times, and the biggest losers seem to be President George W Bush and House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

If House Republican leaders are to be believed, the bill went down because a dozen or so members changed their votes to "no" after partisan remarks by Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi offended them.

Oslo - Microsoft said Tuesday its main development centre for search engine technology was to be based in Norway.

Chief executive Steve Ballmer made the announcement after a meeting with Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.

In the short-term, Microsoft was to hire 50 developers and researchers, Stoltenberg said.

Microsoft currently has some 300 employees in Norway, mainly employed by FastSearch & Transfer that the US-based giant acquired earlier this year.

Washington, Sept 30 : Elisabeth Hasselbeck is reportedly very upset with her co-hosts on the talk show ‘The View’, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, over the US presidential election.

A long-time staff member of the show is said to have revealed that The View creator Barbara Walters has called a “cooling off” meeting between the conservative Hasselbeck and the more liberal Goldberg and Behar.

This is not the first time that Hasselbeck has faced a political showdown with her co-host, but according to insiders, it was not as bad as the disagreement that had taken place with Rosie O''Donnell.