New York - Cyber spies from China, Russia and elsewhere have infiltrated the US electrical grid and other key infrastructures and have the ability to disrupt them during a crisis or war, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

Quoting current and former national-security officials, the report said that the intruders haven't sought to damage the power grid or other key infrastructure yet, but had laid the groundwork to do so in the future.

New York/Toronto  - The parents of a two-month-old baby wanted to donate the heart of their severely brain-damaged daughter for another baby, but physicians in Toronto cancelled the transplant at the last minute.

The reason was the strength of Baby Kaylee's heart and lungs. The baby continued to breathe without the respirator, the Toronto Star reported on Wednesday.

New York, Apr. 8 : New Yorkers are likely to get a chance to greet the grassy-headed figurine of President Obama, thought it has been pulled off from Walgreens shelves in Chicago and Tampa over claims that it is racist and wrong for the company's image.

According to the New York Daily News, Chia Obama''s maker is in negotiations with drugstore chains in the New York market to bring Chia Obama here in the coming weeks.

New York, Apr 8 : It's not just the teenagers who are addicted to sending text messaging, for the `texting' bug has bitten their moms too.

A report suggests that mothers of all ages, grandmothers included, have started to use text messages to keep in touch with their kids.

"It really is a whole new way of parenting," the New York Daily News quoted her Manhattan-based mother Pamela Weinberg, the author of the book `City Baby', as saying.

Weinberg texts daily with her 15-year-old daughter, and she reckons that cell phones have done her family big good.

New York  - US stocks lost ground for a second day as oil prices fell and analysts on Tuesday suggested a rally that lasted through much of March was unsustainable in the current economy.

The selloff came as the first quarterly earnings reports for 2009 were due to be announced.

Company profits were expected to drop about 37 per cent, according to a survey of Wall Street analysts by the Bloomberg financial news agency. It would be the seventh straight quarter of falling earnings.

New York  - With global economic misery escalating, the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday called for a global financial crisis meeting in June that it hopes will involve the leaders of all its members.

The General Assembly approved the plans by consensus in New York. Assembly President Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann appealed to all leaders of the 192 member states to come in person instead of sending lower ranking representatives, according to his spokesman.