Will Smith would be movie fans’ top pick to play Barack Obama in his biopic, according to a new survey.
The actor topped the poll by Virgin Media asking who would be most likely to play Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in the big screen about his life.
Will Smith acquired the highest votes in the survey. Denzel Washington came second while Gary Coleman and Jamie Foxx tied for the third spot.
Will Smith has played Muhammad Ali, the last person on earth and a boozy superhero so why not play Obama?
The senator …

Watching Mariah Carey ‘making out’ with another man is not easy for Nick Cannon.
Mariah’s husband admits he didn’t realize how difficult it would be to see her shooting steamy scenes with a good-looking model when he directed her new video ‘I Stay In Love’.
You see, Mariah had to roll around a bit with a hunky actor and Nick was almost unable to watch. He says he didn’t feel intimidated, but could have “knocked him out at any point.”
Despite having to watch the intimate sex scene, Nick claims he likes working …

Another 1,500 workers at three General Motors Corp. plants will be laid off indefinitely over the next few months due to decreasing demand for many products, the International Herald Tribune reported on its website.
GM, which posted a $15.5 billion net loss in the second quarter, has been battling an industry sales slouch in the United States. Its 2008 U.S. sales were down nearly 18 percent through September.
GM plans to lay off 700 workers at its Pontiac Assembly plant, about 400 hourly workers each at its Wilmington, Del., assembly plant and …

David Beckham’s sons Romeo and Cruz went to their older brother’s football game wearing matching yellow Chelsea shirts.

FriendFeed real-time (beta)
My favorite Web 2.0 site friendfeed has launched a new cool feature. The feature is that you can read the feeds in real time. Casey wrote on the friendblog that the move was inspired by a user comment on the question “what you liked about friendfeed?” And one said “procrastination is only a refresh away”, hence the friendfeed real-time gave birth to a bouncing “beta-hood” (just invented the word).
Casey also wrote that the technique they’ve used is called long polling. Long polling according to the ever realiable wikipedia …

It’s not so surprising that David Duchovny and wife Tea Leoni have separated. The pair split some time ago, but opted to keep the news of the break-up private for the sake of their two kids.
Duchonvny and Leoni have two children — daughter Madelaine West, 9, and son Kyd, 6. The couple married in 1997.
Duchovny, best known for his roles on TV’s The X-Files and Californication, recently completed a stint in rehab for sex addiction. The actor willingly entered rehab last summer.
News of the former couple’s breakup came on …

Contrary to the popular idea that having children decreases a woman’s brainpower, giving birth actually perks up mental agility.

A community in eastern Uganda has banned the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), an official has said.
Historically, natives of Kapchorwa believed that a woman who married without first being circumcised would be stricken for life with various illnesses.
Kapchorwa district chairman Nelson Chelimo said it was “outmoded” and “not useful” for the community’s women.
The Sabiny are the only group in Uganda that practices female circumcision, which involves cutting off a young girl’s clitoris.
“The community decided that it was not useful, that women were not getting anything out of it, so …

International Space Station
The spacecraft Soyuz which blasted off on Sunday from Khazakstan was already on International Space Station (ISS). The Soyuz crew consists of 5 people and multi-millionaire spaceflight participant Richard Garriott boarded the ISS at 4:38 a.m. EDT.
Richard Garriott whose father was a former astronaut Owen Garriott was welcomed by cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, whose father is also a veteran of the Russia space program.
Garriot who shed a huge portion of his money will stay on the facility until October 24. He will gather photos and information for his sponsors …

A new software program that estimates age based solely on someone’s facial appearance can be used in many ways.