Washington, Oct 27 : American singer/songwriter Katy Perry, famous for her ‘I Kissed A Girl’ song, has donated a sculpture of her bust to raise money for a breast cancer charity.

Washington, Oct 27: Hollywood actor Tom Cruise is doing all that he can do to promote his upcoming flick "Valkyrie", for he has even gone to the length of mollifying Matt Lauer.

The ‘vanilla Sky’ actor is totally desperate to promote the flick so much that he made peace with Matt, with whom he had a bitter moment on NBC''s "Today" about Scientology and the evils of psychiatry.

Tom made a rare appearance at Friday’s Friars Club roast of the "Today" show''s Matt Lauer, and declared that he and Matt were buddies.

Washington, Oct 27: Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has opened up an eight-point lead over his rival John McCain in Virginia, and the Illinois Senator is entering the final week of the campaign with several core advantages when it comes to turning out his supporters.

According to a new Washington Post poll, Virginia voters think that Obama is the candidate who would do more to bring needed change to Washington, who understands the economic challenges people are facing and who is the more honest and trustworthy of the two rivals.

Washington, Oct 27: Following furious complaints from the Pakistan government for further ground raids into its tribal areas, the White House has reportedly begun relying on an intensifying campaign of air-strikes by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) against militants in the Pakistani mountains.

The decision followed after Pakistani officials made clear in public that they regard the Predator attacks as “a less objectionable violation of Pakistani sovereignty”.

Quoting American and Pakistani officials, the New York Times reported that attacks by remotely piloted Predator aircraft had increased sharply in frequency and scope during the past three months.

Washington, Oct 25: Seventy percent of voters say that the media wants Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama to win the presidential election while just nine percent said the press favored McCain.

According to a Pew Research Center survey of 1,003 adults conducted from October 17-20, among Republican respondents, the figure was 90 percent, and even 62 percent of Democratic respondents agreed with the idea that “most journalists are pulling for Obama.”

Washington, October 25: Researchers at the Orthopedic Clinic of Heidelberg University Hospital have come up with a way with which paraplegic pianists, paralysed from the hips down, can play the pedalboard wirelessly.

Dr. Rudiger Rupp, who was honoured for this invention with 15,000 euros from the Innovation Award 2008 of the German Paraplegic Foundation (DSQ), said that his team had developed a bite splint with a pressure-sensitive sensor that a pianist can hold in his mouth to control the pedal according to the markings on the music.

The researcher said that the new approach could make it possible to hold a concert without any visible cables or devices, thus approaching normality.