AFP: Putin's youths prepare for confrontation 27 November

Russians are voting in a presidential election seen by critics as rigged to hand victory to Vladimir Putin's chosen successor, Dmitry Medvedev. He faces three challengers, but overwhelming victory is almost a foregone conclusion. Medvedev has promised to appoint Putin, who will have served as president for eight years, as his prime minister. Voters speak their mind.

The Pentagon released a 4min20sec video and audio tape Tuesday of what it described as a confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz between three US warships and Iranian speedboats. The video, which the Pentagon said was taken from the bridge of the destroyer USS Hopper, showed speedboats approaching the warships at high speeds and racing around the Hopper, the USS Port Royal and the USS Ingraham. US President George W. Bush accused Iran of engaging in a "provocative act" and creating a "dangerous situation."

Dmitry Medvedev officially took over as Russia's president on Wednesday at a grand Kremlin ceremony that launched an era of joint rule with his mentor -- and now prime minister -- Vladimir Putin.

Phir Tauba Tauba is the story of three youths from India studying in London. The three of them get friendly with a newly married Indian couple but it’s clear from their faces that they are interested in having more than friendship with the wife. She figures out everything and confronts them and tells them she’s ready for what they want from her provided they murder her husband.

Brazilians have two weeks left to prepare for the official Carnival opening, but already dancers and street bands have started partying. Diversity's the name of the game including, of course, sexual diversity.

A major crisis confronts the world as Israel attacks Egypt, and France and Britain prepare to move troops into the Suez Canal. Egypt is bombed by British jets, even as the UN General Assembly meets in emergency session to consider the threat to peace. Pre

President Vladimir Putin's party won a massive victory in parliamentary polls on Sunday. But Western governments have urged Moscow to investigate allegations of electoral fraud. With 98 percent of ballots counted, Putin's United Russia party had secured 64.1 percent of the vote, giving it a constitutional majority of more than two-thirds of seats in the State Duma. Voiced report.

Kosovo's parliament will declare independence on Sunday while Serbs complain the secession of their religious heartland should not be allowed to go ahead.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert will meet at a U.S.-hosted conference in Annapolis, Maryland to relaunch talks on ending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.