Washington - A Soyuz capsule with a joint US-Russian crew and a millionaire space tourist successfully docked Saturday with the International Space Station (ISS), US officials reported.

The US space agency NASA said the docking, coming two days after the Soyuz was launched from the Baikonur centre, went without a hitch and was completed at 1305 GMT, nine minutes earlier than scheduled.

The Soyuz brought Russian cosmonaut Gennadi Padalka and his US colleague Michael Barratt - who will stay on the ISS until next October - as well as US millionaire space tourist Charles Simonyi.

Washington, Mar 28 : Welsh singer-songwriter Duffy has vowed that she will never endorse another product again, after her TV commercial for Diet Coke was criticised by U. K. campaigners over road safety fears.

Duffy, 24, who is currently promoting the low-calorie beverage in a European advertising campaign, is seen riding a bicycle through dark streets without a helmet or reflective gear.

The singer was criticised for the promo by officials at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, after it debuted last month.

Washington, Mar 28 : New Zealand actor Russell Crowe has revealed that he has cut off his hair, which he had grown for his part as Robin Hood, as he wanted the medieval hero to look different.

Crowe, 44, admits that he has been working around his new look for his past two films, and that he finally decided on playing the part with his hair cropped.

Washington, Mar 28 : Hollywood actor Brandon Routh's whole plotline has been removed from the film `The Informers' amid budget concerns.

The new film has been made from a book by Brett Easton Ellis, however trouble emerged after director Nick Jarecki was replaced by Gregor Jordan.

According to the sources, Ellis and Jarecki, who wrote the screenplay, are not quite happy with the finished product. They told pals that the film they had started to make is quite different from the finished product.

Washington, Mar 28 : Feeding on diet rich in omega 3 fatty acids helps birds increase their aerobic capacity, say researchers.

According to Jean-Michel Weber from the University of Ottawa, the study showed that even less athletic birds called quails could get fit simply by eating a diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids.

During the study, Webber along with student Simba Nagahuedi, fed three groups of the sedentary quails a tightly regulated omega-3 diet, or a 50/50 mixture of the two oils for 6 weeks

Moscow - The presidents of Russia and the United States are expected to sign an agreement on strategic offensive weapons on the sidelines of a financial summit in London next week, the Kremlin has announced.

According to the Interfax news agency, citing Kremlin officials, US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will also issue a joint statement about their nations' bilateral relations during their first meeting since Obama's inauguration in January.

The statement will have "practical applications for coming negotiations," said Sergei Prikhodko, an advisor to Medvedev.