Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg, the Oscar Award winning film director, has quit as artistic adviser to the Beijing Olympic Games, complaining that China was not doing
enough to end violence in Sudan's Darfur region. The move by Spielberg, an unpaid adviser to organisers of the Olympic opening and closing ceremonies, is a heavy
blow to China's efforts to prevent international criticism of its support for the Sudanese government from casting a pall over the August Games. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has pulled out of the Republican race for the White House after
disappointing primary results in Florida and announced he was giving his support to Arizona Senator and Vietnam War veteran John McCain. Nepal will hold its first national elections in nearly nine years on April 10, capping a peace process with the Maoists after a long civil war. Voters are to elect a special assembly which is meant to write a new constitution for Nepal, formally declare the country a republic after more than two centuries of royal rule and replace the current interim parliament.