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Pentagon officials are voting for Gen. David H. Petraeus as the head of NATO. The opportunity of the top American commander of U.S. armies in Iraq to receive the high-level post for the period of the next administration, raised worries regarding the practice of rotating war commanders.

"He deserves one and that has also always been a highly prestigious position. So he is a candidate for that job, but there have been no final decisions and nothing on the timing," outlined an official from Pentagon.

This week the United States gold futures registered a record high slightly below $900 an ounce as funds discharged money after Ben Bernanke, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, stated about speculation of the further rate cuts and slide of the dollar.

"The rate cut (speculation) has been driving the gold market through its impact on the dollar. I expect more of the same going forward," outlined Thomas Winmill, portfolio manager of Midas Fund in New York, an institution that oversees $265 million of assets under management.

A survey conducted recently showed 151,000 deaths of Iraqis. The deaths took place during the three years of violence and the invasion of the U.S. troops in the country. According to the statistics nine out of ten deaths were the consequences of the military operations performed by the U.S. troops, insurgent attacks and sectarian warfare.

Nicholas Negroponte, head of the charity, stated that Intel repetitively undetermined its non-for-profit scheme, meant to provide cheap laptops to children living in developing countries.

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger mentioned that he is going to sue the government of the United States because it does not grant a waiver that would permit California to enforce its own standards on emissions coming from motor vehicles.

InterActive Corp.'s search engine, Ask, announced the introduction of a new online tool that will be able to help people who surf the Internet keep their history of search private. The new tool was entitled AskEraser and with its help users will be able to delete any data regarding the searches they made on the Ask website, this includes the elimination of information from the company's servers.

After the announcement of Vladimir Putin that his preferred successor is Dmitry Medvedev, who is currently Russia's Prime Minister, the latter stated that he wants Putin to take his place as the future Prime Minister. Medvedev outlined that as the PM of the future government Putin will be able to guarantee stability in the country.

The Prime Minister of UK, Gordon Brown, looks forward to work with at least 20 multinational companies, among them being Google and Vodafone. His aim is to engage into a "development emergency" in some of the poorest countries in the world.

Former United States vice-president and the Nobel Prize winner for battling global warming, Al Gore, will become a partner of a private equity firm from the Unites States. It is worth mentioning that the firm has a history of supporting "green technology".

The environmental activist, Al Gore, looks forward to become a member of the board of Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield and Byers.