NEW YORK - US President Barack Obama seems to be breaking one fashion trend after another as far as presidential casual wear is concerned - he was seen wearing nothing more than a flimsy strip of rubber on his feet in Hawaii.

LONDON - French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has come under fire for allegedly intervening to prevent the extradition of a left-wing terrorist convicted of four murders from Brazil to Italy.

NEW DELHI - A Delhi court will take up Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) plea to close the case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, the key accused in the Bofors scam today.