New York, Sep 6 : Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin changed colleges six times in six years - sometimes because she just didn’t like the weather.

Palin began her college in 1982 after graduating from Wasilla High School in Alaska, her biography titled “Sarah,” said. She and three friends enrolled at the University of Hawaii in Hilo.

Washington, Sept 6 : As PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardrai is all set to win today’s Pakistan presidential poll, the White House has said that it expected the winner to cooperate in the fight against terrorism.

A White House spokesman said that Washington would continue to work with the next Pakistan President and would also like to have his co-operation in its ongoing global war-on-terror.

Peshawar, Sept 6 : Citing “security reasons” following Taliban threats, Pakistan has reportedly stopped supplies to the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan through its western Torkham border, with effect from Friday.

A senior Pakistan official said that the move to stop supplies was taken after am increase in Taliban threats to trucks carrying the supplies. He dismissed the impression that the decision was a reaction to continued US attacks in Waziristan.

Tripoli/Washington - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi discussed common interests such as the fight against terrorism and laid the basis for cultural, trade and diplomatic ties during their historic meeting, Washington's chief diplomat said late Friday.

Seattle - Some 27,000 machinists at airplane giant Boeing are to go on strike at 12:01 am Pacific time Saturday (0700 GMT) after extended talks failed and its largest union again rejected the company's proposed wage increases amid fears that their jobs could be shipped overseas.

"Despite meeting late into the night and throughout the day, continued contract talks with the Boeing company did not address our issues,'' the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said in an online statement.

Washington - The US government was preparing to take over and bailout the twin mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, according to a New York Times report late Friday that cited officials and company executives who have been briefed on the plan.

The two companies would be placed in a conservatorship, the Times reported. Such a move would be the newest shock to US finance markets as the country struggles with soaring mortgage foreclosures that have undermined the US economy.