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Johannesburg, Feb 24 - West Indies skipper Jason Holder has backed out-of-form Chris Gayle to regain form during their World Cup tie against Zimbabwe on Tuesday at Canberra.

London, Feb 20 - Stephen Hawking has said that aggression may have had survival advantage in caveman days, but now it threatens to destroy everyone.

Los Angeles - An alternate trailer for the upcoming Miles Teller starrer 'The Fantastic Four' has leaked online via Instagram.

The trailer is attached to 'Kingsman: The Secret Service',

Washington, Feb 24 - A new study has indicated that methods commonly used in censuses of tigers and other rare wildlife put the accuracy of such surveys in doubt.

The study conducted at University of Oxford focused on the inherent shortcomings in the "index-calibration" method that means it can produce inaccurate results.

Mumbai: No death due to swine flu was reported in Maharashtra Monday, a health official said.

The number of swine flu related deaths in the state stands at 99, the official said.

Detroit - The death toll from crashes involving General Motors cars with defective ignition switches has climbed to 57.

The total is one more than last week. It was posted today on an internet site by compensation expert Kenneth Feinberg.

Feinberg and his aides are checking claims filed or postmarked before a January 31 deadline to determine which are eligible for compensation.

Each eligible death claim is worth at least USD 1 million under his guidelines. Feinberg was hired by GM to make payments.

As of Friday, he received 479 death claims and 3,866 injury claims. Of the injury claims, 94 will get compensation, up from 87 a week ago.