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London, Sept 28 : A radio burst that originated from beyond the Milky Way galaxy has befuddled astronomers.

Initial suspects include the merger of two dense stellar corpses called neutron stars and the complete evaporation of a black hole.

David Narkevic, an undergraduate student at West Virginia University in Morgantown, US, discovered the burst while searching through archived data taken in 2001 by the Parkes radio dish in Australia. He was looking for periodic signals from pulsars – rotating neutron stars – within our galaxy.

Sydney, Sept.28 : Official estimates suggest there are now 23 million feral pigs in Australia, outnumbering the continent's human population of 21 million.

According to news.com.au, they are the descendants of domestic pigs which explorers such as Captain Cook released as a living larder for future expeditions.

The animals found Australia to be hog heaven, with plentiful food, a balmy climate and no natural predators aside from the occasional crocodile and piglet-pinching dingoes.

Washington, Sept 28 : Early Polynesians sailed thousands of miles for exploration and trade, analysis of early stone woodworking tools by a team of Australian researchers from the University of Queensland has revealed.

They say the study confirms traditional tales of vast ocean voyages and hints that a trading network existed between Hawaii and Tahiti as early as a thousand years ago.

New Delhi, Sept. 28 : China’s Ministry for Public Security appears to be facing a tough battle in tackling cyber crime, especially during the past three years.

According to The China Daily, ministry officials remain unoptimistic about their ability to tackle online theft and fraud, and are demanding the introduction of legislation on cyber crime and the protection of virtual property.

Winnipeg: Canadian veterinary functionaries stated that they have detected the H7N3 strain of avian influenza on a Saskatchewan farm, but pointed out the virus was not the lethal strain, which researchers fear could result in the next flu plague.

Washington, Sept 28: According to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has found further evidence to support the theory that allergy is a major factor in asthma.

The study was conducted by researchers led by Darryl C. Zeldin, M.D., a senior investigator at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and Peter Gergen, M.D., M.P.H, of NIAID’s Division of Allergy, Immunology and Transplantation.