Washington, Mar 16 : American actor Charlie Sheen and his wife Brooke Mueller Sheen became the proud parents of twin boys on March 14.

The couple, who got married in May 2008, have named their babies, who were born a few weeks early, Max and Bob.

"They're doing great," People magazine quoted Sheen''s publicist Stan Rosenfield as saying.

"And Brooke''s doing great," he added.

New York, Mar 16 : American socialite Nicole Richie has dropped former manager Benny Medina, after she got fed up with his meddling.

Medina had shut down his Handprint Entertainment in January, but Richie kept his associate Michael Baum as her manager, with her former manager staying on as a consultant.

Last week sources revealed that Richie, who had had enough of Medina's meddling, let him go.

New Delhi  - India's HCL Technologies has signed a 350-million dollar outsourcing contract with US media company Reader's Digest Association, it was announced Monday.

Among the largest deals by an Indian company in the recent months, the contract comes at a time when the Indian IT industry is struggling to secure big deals amid the global economic crisis.

London, March 16 : In a new research, a statistician in the US has suggested that every individual is not only liable for the greenhouse gas emissions caused by him, but also for his children, and further descendants.

According to a report in New Scientist, the statistician in question is Paul Murtaugh, from Oregon State University in Corvallis, US.

"If you have a child, you and you partner are each responsible for half its emissions. If that child has kids, one-quarter of their emissions are down to you, and so on," said Murtaugh.

"How it adds up depends on population trends and emission changes in the future," he added.

Washington, March 16: A new study has suggested that global warming is expected to cause the sea level along the northeastern U. S. coast to rise almost twice as fast as global sea levels during this century, putting New York City at greater risk for damage from hurricanes and winter storm surge.

The study was led by Jianjun Yin, a climate modeler at the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS) at Florida State University, US.

According to Yin, there is a better than 90 percent chance that the sea level rise along this heavily populated coast will exceed the mean global sea level rise by the year 2100.

New York, Mar 16: The former fiance of Bristol Palin has said that he and the Alaska Governor Sarah Palin''s daughter could reunite in the future but would remain apart for now.

In an interview to air on "Good Morning America," Levi Johnston said that he needs time to mature before getting married.

"It''s just us not - me not - being mature enough," the New York Daily News quoted Johnston, as telling Neal Karlinsky.