Washington, Mar 14 : To overcome the ongoing financial crisis, The Washington Post is taking another step toward trimming the size of its newspaper.

The Post is folding its stand-alone Business section into the A section six days a week and drastically reducing the publication of stock tables.

Bringing financial news inside the A section will reduce the newspaper from five to four sections Monday through Saturday, not counting weekly feature sections such as Health, Food and Home.

New York, Mar 14 : American pornographic actor Ron Jeremy has revealed that a movie, which featured him doing a porn scene, was nominated for an Oscar.

Jeremy, 56, learnt recently that he had been briefly shown in the movie "Waltz With Bashir", which was up for best foreign film.

"There''s a scene where one of the soldiers is watching a porno, and it''s me on the screen, you can tell . . . And they thank me in the end credits," the New York Post quoted him as telling avn. com.

London, Mar 14 : Manchester United received a huge boost ahead of the Saturday's clash with Liverpool when their ace striker Cristiano Ronaldo insisted that he will stay at Old Trafford next season.

And the Portuguese winger admitted no other club could match his "dream" life at Old Trafford as they close in on the quintuple, The Mirror reported.

Last summer was dominated by Real Madrid trying to lure him to the Bernabeu.

Washington, Mar 14 : The commander of the U. S. Central Command has said that an Iraq-style increase in troops cannot be a solution to the problems in Afghanistan.

Speaking before about 800 people at an event sponsored by the World Affairs Council, General David Petraeus acknowledged that the situation in Afghanistan has been spiraling downward and is likely to get worse before it gets better.

Petraeus said more resources are needed in Afghanistan, both military and especially civil to help build a stable government there.

Washington, Mar 14 : Researchers from Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified a molecular pathway that can be a potential therapeutic target for Down's syndrome, the most frequent cause of mental retardation.

The study showed that synaptojanin-1, a central component of the pathway, is essential to production of glia, brain cells that act as neurons'' personal assistants.

Down''s syndrome, spinal cord injury, Alzheimer''s disease, and stroke all are linked by an overproduction of glia.

Washington, Mar 14 : Hollywood actress Penelope Cruz is in talks to star in Italian director Sergio Castellitto's film `Venuto al Mondo' (Into the World).