London, Aug 11 : In a breakthrough study, scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have successfully prevented functional declines in the livers of old mice.

Lead researcher Dr. Ana Maria Cuervo, associate professor in the departments of developmental & molecular biology, medicine and anatomy & structural biology at Einstein, said that the livers of older animals functioned as well in getting rid of damaged protein as they did when the animals were much younger.

For the study, Cuervo created a transgenic mouse model having an extra gene that codes for the receptor that normally declines in number with increasing age.

London, Aug. 11 : Senior British commanders have placed a demand for thousands of more troops in Afghanistan to prevent the Taliban from winning back control of the country.

They are recommending a rapid reduction in the 4,000 troops in Iraq so that more can go to Afghanistan.

American and British commanders in Afghanistan want an Iraq-style surge “within months” to fend off a Taliban victory before next year’s presidential election there.

London, Aug 11 : Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s song-writing partner, folk singer Mariano Apicella, has asked him to take time off from running the country, so that the former could focus on their new CD of love ballads.

The album, which is a fourth for Berlusconi with Apicella, is expected to be be completed for a Christmas launch.

However, work on it has been going very slowly.

"The disc is still up in the air. The premier told me that he''s having trouble finding the time to finish it with me,” the Telegraph quoted Apicella as saying.

London, August 11 : Robots could be on patrol in Britain by 2040, and would have sensory devices to detect guns and knives, and “sniff” out bombs.

London, Aug. 11 : Global warming, it seems, is not a matter of concern for the filthy rich, at least as far as the British capital, London, goes.

An investigation undertaken by The Sun recently found cars of at least 50 tycoons being driven around the Harrods shopping block by their chauffeurs for hours, spewing gas fumes.

Yellow lines restrict the streets around the London store, but there are metered parking spaces nearby for just three pounds an hour.

In the worst case witnessed on Saturday, a 150,000-pound Bentley Continental GT spent four hours going around as its two women passengers shopped.

London, Aug. 11 : Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic who has been indicted for genocide and war crimes, was receiving protection from London, a former Hague Tribunal official has claimed.

According to The Telegraph, a former United Nations political affairs officer in Bosnia and a Hague Tribunal investigator, James Luko, told a Belgrade newspaper that General Angus Ramsay, the former commander of British peace­keepers in Bosnia, was ordered by his superiors in London to leave Karadzic alone just minutes before British troops were to capture him in August 1997.