Washington  - Senator John McCain, 71, heads to the unlikely town of Sturgis, South Dakota, on Monday to rub elbows with the rowdy tattooed rebels of the American roads at a campground rock concert.

With a population of 780,000, South Dakota on the Great Plains is hardly an election-day prize for either McCain's Republican Party or rival Democrats.

Washington, Aug 4 : It may involve the thrill of flipping and jumping into the water, but diving does not spare the most trained of athletes from an injury.

And now, a new study has found that the most common diving-related-injuries target the head, neck and face.

Conducted by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy (CIRP) of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children''s Hospital, the study revealed that almost 
111,000 diving-related injuries to persons under the age of 19 were treated in emergency departments from 1990 through 2006.

Constituting 58 percent of all injuries, lacerations and soft tissue injuries turned out to be the most common diagnoses.

Washington, Aug 2: The issue of the July 7 bombing of Indian embassy in Kabul did not figure during the recent meeting between US President George Bush and Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in Washington, when the latter visited the US.

According to the White House Press Secretary Dana Perino, the duo had a “good meeting” earlier this week during which they agreed that the two countries need to fight terrorism jointly.

Washington, Aug 2: Even wearing modest head-to-toe clothing does not seem to be saving women in the Arab world from the unwanted male attention.

A recent report by the Egyptian Centre for Women's Rights found that 83 percent of Egyptian women polled reported having been sexually harassed, while nearly half said the abuse occurred daily.

Women are coming forward to complain about the lewd comments, groping, stalking and other forms of sexual harassment, that they have to face, despite a majority of them wearing the veil, known as the hijab.

Washington, Aug 2: Women whose hubbies put in long hours at the office are more likely to quit their jobs, according to a group of researchers.

However, men's careers are not impacted when their wives put in long hours, it was found.

Researchers at Cornell University say that working overtime has a disproportionate impact on women in dual-earner households, exacerbating gender inequality and supporting the "separate sphere" phenomenon in which men are the breadwinners while women tend to the home.

The study has been presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.

Washington, August 2: Thanks to an ingenious new bullet tagging technology developed in the UK, which involves the usage of ‘nanotags’ on gun cartridges, criminals who use firearms may find it much harder to evade justice in future.

The tiny tags – just 30 microns in diameter and invisible to the naked eye – are designed to be coated onto gun cartridges. They then attach themselves to the hands or gloves of anyone handling the cartridge and are very difficult to wash off completely.

Crucially, some of these ‘nanotags’ also remain on the cartridge even after it has been fired.

This should make it possible to establish a robust forensic link between a cartridge fired during a crime and whoever handled it.