SHANGHAI: US President Bill Clinton has won over Shanghai residents with his affable manner but failed to impress at a Chinese lunch where he went through three pairs of chopsticks to eat his dessert. ``Clinton said he had practised for a month eating with chopsticks but now he has met his match,'' the Xinmin evening news reported. The report said Clinton was trying to bite into a sticky cake at Lubolang restaurant in the Yuyuan tourist complex on Wednesday but it stuck to his chopsticks. ``A waitress hurried to his aid and gave him another pair but it took three changes of chopsticks before he was able to eat his cake,'' the report said.

Barbra Streisand, James Brolin wed

LOS ANGELES: Singer and actress Barbra Streisand and television actor James Brolin exchanged vows on Wednesday night at her beach-front Malibu estate, KCLA television said.

Ending months of speculation, the couple, both in their mid-fifties, had as private a ceremony as possible with televisionhelicopters occasionally buzzing overhead and the road leading to her posh estate lined with television trucks. The wedding, which marks the second anniversary of the couple's first date, was reportedly supposed to be a small affair by Hollywood standards, with only family and close friends attending it.

Monkey business

BEIJING: Zoologists in China have found more than 1,000 snub-nosed monkeys in China's southwest Yunnan province. The Yunnan snub-nosed monkey is a rare species that has been included in the number one category of wildlife listed under state protection in China. Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys, found in the Samagong forest in Weixi County were thought to mainly live in the Baimang (whiteness) Snow Mountain State Nature Reserve, over 3,800 meters above sea level and more than 200 km away from Samagong forest area. The monkeys substitute on a diet of fruits and leaves. They are snow white when they are young and their backs turn black as they grow.