London, Oct.15 (ANI): Formula One legend Sir Jackie Stewart has branded current favourite Lewis Hamilton as 'arrogant' and warned him that he will lose the drivers' crown if he repeats last weekend's first corner cock-up in Japan.

McLaren star Hamilton saw his world championship lead over Ferrari's Felipe Massa cut to five points with two races left, after he was hit with a drive-through penalty for forcing Kimi Raikkonen off the track.

Stewart has been one of Hamilton's biggest supporters, claiming the 23-year-old could become one of the sport's all-time greats.

But after seeing his display at Fuji, he said: "It was not his finest hour.

"Lewis' approach in that first corner was slightly arrogant towards other drivers. He braked far too late, ran deep into the run-off area and then almost collided with Raikkonen. Lewis didn't make it happen for himself but he made it happen for everybody else by taking himself out of contention," The Sun quoted Stewart, as saying. "There's an old adage 'You can't win the race in the first corner but you can lose it'. That's exactly what occurred. Weaving in and out of other cars, as Lewis did in the run to the first corner, puts other drivers in the position of having to avoid his manoeuvre. It exposes Lewis to risk from their actions," he added.

"Lewis can still win the championship - but not if he drives the last two races the way he drove in Japan," Stewart said. (ANI)

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Washington, Oct 22 (ANI): Boys with a history of childhood physical or sexual abuse are four times more likely to use sexually coercive behaviour against an unwilling female partner in later life, according to a new study.

The study led by Erin Casey, a University of Washington Tacoma assistant professor of social work, has found that victims of childhood abuse are at an increased risk of indulging in sexually coercive behaviour as adolescent or young adult.

"Although there can be physical force involved in sexual coercion, it more often involves such tactics as pressure, persuasion, insistence, manipulation and lying to have sex with an unwilling female partner," said Casey.

In the study involving nearly 5,650 males, 45 pct of the respondents reported sexually coercive behaviour.

Men who experienced only physical abuse were half as likely to engage in sexual coercion as those who did not experience any abuse.

However, the number of men who experienced only sexual abuse as a child was too small, less than one-half of 1 percent, to make any valid statistical conclusions.

"The higher the frequency of childhood abuse the more likely an adolescent or young adult was to engage in sexually coercive behaviour," she said.

"There is a lot of evidence indicating sexual coercion and aggression is a complex behaviour with an array of risk factors.

"There is this whole group of men for whom we have yet to fully understand what their risk factors are," she added.

The study also found that men who experienced childhood sexual abuse were more likely to report becoming sexually active at a young age and going on to sexually coercive behaviour.

The findings appear online in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. (ANI)

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London, Oct 23 (ANI): Want to get rid of those irritating cold calls that you have to attend? Well, then TrueCall might just prove to be your ultimate saviour.

The TrueCall device acts as a buffer between the phone and the outside world and can easily distinguish between welcome and unwelcome callers.

Inventors and ex-telemarketers Steve Smith and John Price are the ones who came up with the idea for such a blocking gizmo.

"TrueCall is designed to give people control of their landlines. You can bolt the door and close the curtains but your landline is the weak link in your privacy," BBC quoted Price, as saying.

The new gadget intercepts all calls, and can differentiates if it is a friend or a member of the user's family-whose numbers the user can easily store on the star list-enabling the calls to reach normally.

In case the caller's number is on a zap list - numbers of telemarketers or other nuisance callers - it is the device that answers it, enabling all future calls from that number, with an automated message which means the phone does not ring at all.

When the system doesn't recognise the caller's number, the caller withholds their number, and asks them who they are, puts them on hold and then rings the user's phone.

Then it is up to the user to either, take the call, have the system take a message, or reject the call and add the number to the "zap" list. Users can add callers to their "star" list by pressing the star button on their phone at any point during a call.

In fact, the device could soon be able to download a list of blacklisted numbers from a central database, which can be dialled into via a modem inside the box.

This will transmit information about each call that was made, if this is requested by the user. (ANI)

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Kuala Lumpur, Oct 23 (ANI): The state government of Malacca is seeing Shah Rukh Khan's acceptance of a Malaysian award as a door opening for more Bollywood movies to be shot in the city.

King Khan has recently agreed to come to Malacca next month, to receive his Darjah Mulia Seri Melaka (DMSM) award, which carries the title "Datuk."

Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam said that the Indian superstar would act as a "bridge" for more movies to be shot at the historical city.

Recently, Unesco (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) named Malacca as a World Heritage Site.

"When he comes here, we will try and persuade him to come to Malacca and capture its various tourism attractions to be included in future Bollywood movies," The New Straits Online quoted Ali as saying.

He added: "Shahrukh could also help us get other actors and directors to come to the state for this purpose."

Shahrukh was among 758 recipients of Malacca state honours this year in conjunction with Yang Dipertua Negeri Tun Mohd Khalil Yaakob's 70th birthday on Oct 11.

However, Ali said that the exact date of Shah Rukh's arrival in Malacca has not been confirmed yet. (ANI)

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