By David Chance and Ju-min Park SEOUL, Jan 8 (Reuters) - North Korea has done its best to butter up Google Inc. ahead of Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt's visit that started on Monday, even to the extent of setting up a gmail account for its state news agency KCNA atkcna@gmail.com. Sadly, the Hermit Kingdom's chosen email address doesn't work as it is short of the minimum six characters required for a Google account.

(Repeats to widen distribution, no change to headline or text) SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 7 (Reuters) - An oil tanker struck a tower of the San Francisco Bay Bridge on Monday but did not appear to spill any oil into the bay, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The 750-foot-long tanker "Overseas Reymar" collided into the bridge as it was heading out to sea, said U.S. Coast Guard Lieutenant Heather Lampert. (Reporting By Gerry Shih; Editing by Cynthia Johnston, Gary Hill)

* Muslim activists, UOIF group back Catholic-led protest * Religious leaders leave major protest to lay groups * Opponents plan three marches meeting at Eiffel Tower By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor PARIS, Jan 7 (Reuters) - French Muslims have begun joining a mostly Catholic-led movement against same-sex marriage, widening opposition to the reform that the Socialist-led government is set to write into the law by June.

By Alan Baldwin LONDON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - For a sport timed down to the thousandth of a second and measured in millimetres, Formula One seems to be finding it surprisingly difficult to get to grips with a calendar. With little more than two months to go before the Australian season-opener in Melbourne on March 17, the sport has yet to confirm how many races there will be in 2013 and where two of them will be held.