London, March 17: Ace footballer Cristiano Ronaldo was apparently left angered after a vagrant gobbed on his 150,000-pound Bentley car.

According to reports, the Big Issue seller was pleading Ronaldo to buy a copy of the 1.50-pound magazine.

However, when the 100,000-pound-a-week ace ignored his pleas, he lost his cool.

The vendor brushed past Ronaldo, and hopped in the motor.

He even swore at the Man United star, and challenged the latter to get out and fight.

Washington, March 17: When a group of musicians perform during a concert, their brains become synchronised in the same fashion as their instruments do, according to a new study.

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and the University of Salzburg came to this conclusion after recording the brain electrical activity in eight pairs of guitarists with the aid of electroencephalography (EEG).

Washington - German Economics Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg met with top managers of General Motors Corp on the future of the US carmaker's German subsidiary Opel.

No details were released from late Monday's talks in Washington, which lasted more than two hours.

GM chief executive Rick Wagoner was the top participant from the struggling US carmaker.

Video-game publishers are pressurizing Sony Corp to take its pick out of two alternatives - one, lower the price of its PlayStation 3 console; and two, face the possibility increased development funds going Nintendo Wii's way! At its starting price of $399.99, the PS3 is $150 more than Wii and $200 more than the most-economical Xbox 360.

According to analyst Mike Hickey, of Janco Partners Inc. in Greenwood Village, Colorado, even though Sony has thus far stood unyielding against calls for lower price, there is likelihood that it might trim the price of PS3 by $50-$100 in the near future.

San Francisco  - Intel warned rival chip maker AMD Monday that its license to make personal-computer chips could be revoked because it spun out its manufacturing unit into a separate company.

Intel dominates the market for PC-compatible chips, which are based on the ubiquitous x86 architecture, first introduced by Intel in 1978 and later licensed to other companies.

Obesity is the growing concern for various medical experts around the globe. Excessive weight increases vulnerability to various diseases. Recent study revealed that the enzyme, MGAT2 can help in preventing obesity. Researchers at the University of California in San Francisco believe that drugs targeting this enzyme can help in preventing obesity.

Researchers found that the intestinal enzyme MGAT2 plays a crucial role in this energy storage process and the consequent build-up of fat in animal models. Mice in which this enzyme has been made inactive were able to consume a high-fat diet without putting on weight.