Clooney, 49, contracted malaria during a recent trip to Africa as part of a diplomatic mission to prevent another genocide in Sudan.

“It’s a grim diagnosis,” Dr. H. Leon Pachter, chairman of surgery at New York University, tells “Overall, the five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer patients is 35 percent.”

A family insider told the station that she’s doing, “OK,” but they ask for the public’s prayers.

Bluewater Productions has announced, “And now Bruni-Sarkozy will be immortalised in comic-book form,” reports News.com.au.

The cover shows the French First Lady bare-shouldered in an evening gown with her hands crossed demurely in front of her, poised before a billowing French tricolour.

A narrator named Rene, drawn as a moustached official, promises readers, “I’ll take you through the files on our French First Lady … Being a French story, it has romance, sensuality, the occasional menage-a-trois.”

Bluewater publisher Darren Davis said the Bruni-Sarkozy story is part of a series called Female Force that is aimed at “female empowerment”.

“She has drive and ambition. When girls read this they’re going to see they can do anything, and be what they want to be,” Davis said.

The comic book tells the story of Bruni-Sarkozy’s life from her birth in Italy to her 2008 marriage to Nicolas Sarkozy.

It also features her past romances including with actor Vincent Perez, musician Eric Clapton and former French prime minister Laurent Fabius, an alleged scandal involving Mick Jagger, and her child by French philosopher Raphael Enthoven.

Davis said the comics are sold in the United States and Britain, as well as eight other countries, mostly to a young audience but also collectors of political memorabilia. (ANI)

She had appeared in front of a judge late last month over allegations that she failed two court-ordered drug tests and was told to spend a month in prison, but walked free after posting $300,000 bail.

The ‘Mean Girls’ star subsequently checked herself into the Betty Ford clinic in Rancho Mirage, California and only left the centre in the early hours of Friday in preparation for her court hearing, reports imdb.com.

Lohan appeared before Judge Elden Fox at the Beverly Hills Courthouse in Los Angeles, Friday when she faced a three-month jail term. The judge has decided to keep the troubled star in a drug programme to help her kick her addictions once and for all.

‘You are an addict. I hope you understand that,’ he told Lohan.

The actress nodded in response and thanked Judge Fox for his lenient sentence.

Lohan has been ordered to stay in rehab until at least Jan 3 – meaning she will be spending the upcoming Christmas holidays in treatment. She will undergo random drug testing upon her release until her next court date Feb 25.

“The court verdict should not be seen as anybody”s victory or defeat,” he reiterated. Bhagwat also said the joy and happiness over the verdict should find expression in a “controlled and peaceful manner” within the limits of law and constitution.

“Uncalled for provocation must be avoided,” he said adding, the movement for a Ram temple was “not a reactionary one nor it is against any particular community.” Bhagwat also appealed to the Muslims to “forget the past”.

It was Sania”s first WTA title in 17 months as the last time she won was in April 2009 at Ponte Vedra Beach event with Taipei”s Chia-Jung Chuang. Sania earned 280 ranking points and split USD 11,000 with Edina as prize money.

Sania won her first and only WTA singles title in 2005 after beating Alyona Bondarenko of Ukraine in the Hyderabad Open. Her maiden Grand Slam title came only last year when she won the mixed doubles event of the Australian Open along with Mahesh Bhupath

Shouting slogans against Salman, BJP activists burnt posters of the actor near a mall-cum-multiplex in Lucknow’s Gomti Nagar area.

Police used mild force against the protesters as they tried to disrupt a show of film ‘Dabangg’ that has Salman in the lead.

‘Timely intervention by our teams managed to control the situation and disperse the protesters, who even tried to disrupt vehicular traffic in the busy area,’ police Inspector Akshay Kumar told reporters here.

In the wake of the protest, security has been strengthened at malls, multiplexes and cinema halls, particularly those screening ‘Dabangg’.

The star stoked a row with his remark that the 26/11 attack attracted ‘too much hype’ as only ‘elite people were targetted’.

‘The interview has been twisted. I saw it myself, the way it is coming across on TV, it is sounding insensitive. I was just saying life is equal for both rich and poor, some attacks get more media coverage and some don’t. Why is that? Every human life is important,’ Salman, 44, told Aaj Tak news channel.

‘Any attack or terrorist attack in the world is unpardonable. A terrorist has no nationality, no religion and no guts. I have complete faith in our intelligence agencies. I’ve always had faith in our police and armed forces. I did not want to hurt anybody’s sentiments and if I have hurt anybody’s sentiments then I am really, really sorry,’ he added.