With Sundance Film Festival critics raving about Peepli Live, Rapid Eye Pictures, a German distribution company has already agreed to release it in German theatres in the latter half of this year. Rapid Eye has also acquired the Home Video and Television rights. Peepli Live is co-produced by UTV Motion Pictures and Aamir Khan Productions and is the debut directorial venture of Anusha Rizvi.

Stephan Holl, founder, Rapid Eye Pictures claimed to be "thrilled" about distributing a "true Indian art house film that entertains whilst telling a serious story."

The Shiv Sena threat to Australian players taking part in IPL season-3 is causing ripples Down Under, with the Indian community there apprehensive of a backlash if the Sena did not soften its stand. Indians, especially students, in Australia, are vehemently protesting the move.

The Federation of Indian Students of Australia (FISA) has expressed solidarity with Australian players and has called for building up international pressure on India to ensure the safety of the players. The association is now planning to write to Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray, asking him to desist from taking on Australian players, thinking of the safety of Indians in Australia.

Google has been making various failed attempts in the past to get a foothold in the social networking arena with tough competitors like Facebook and Twitter.

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Finally the company unveiled a new service known as Google Buzz. This service is available right into your Gmail inbox.

The announcement that India has proposed talks with Pakistan ironically came on a day that saw a massive show of strength by proscribed terror groups, including Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaat-ud-Dawa, in Muzaffarabad to galvanize the ``freedom movement'' in Jammu and Kashmir.

If there was any enthusiasm over US director of national intelligence Dennis Blair's statement before the Senate that Pakistan looked upon these groups as strategic assets against India, it was quickly wiped off by the terror rally which was addressed by terrorists wanted in India.

Beaches north of Miami remained largely empty on Thursday as panic spread after a bizarre incident in which sharks attacked and killed a kite-surfer off the eastern coast of Florida.

Stephen Schafer, 38, was spotted by a lifeguard as he was floating encircled by sharks and screaming for help off Stuart Beach, 150km north of Miami, police said.

The lifeguard brought the man to shore on his board and tried to resuscitate him on Wednesday before he was rushed to hospital where he died.

The beach, which has never before recorded a shark attack, was swiftly closed after the incident, but reopened on Thursday as shark experts called for calm.