London, Dec. 2 : Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, Britain’s Chief of Defence Staff, has said that more service personnel could be deployed in Afghanistan as Britain withdraws from Iraq.

But he insisted that the additional force sent to Afghanistan must be smaller than the 4,000 troops that will soon leave Iraq.

London, Dec 2 : Archaeologists have uncovered rare sculptures from the late Stone Age at Zaraysk, 150 km south-east of Moscow in Russia.

According to a report by BBC News, the findings have yielded figurines and carvings on mammoth tusks, including a cone-shaped object whose function “remains a puzzle” to the archaeologists.

Such artistic artefacts have been found in the nearby regions of Kostenki and Avdeevo, but this is the first such discovery at Zaraysk.

The new artefacts, discovered by Hizri Amirkhanov and Sergey Lev of the Russian Academy of Sciences, include a mammoth rib inscribed with what appear to be three mammoths, a small bone engraved with a cross-hatch pattern, and two human figurines presumed to be female.

London, Dec 2 : A team of archaeologists has uncovered a rare amber necklace believed to be about 4,000 years old in Greater Manchester, in the UK, dating back to the Bronze Age.

According to a report by BBC News, archaeologists made the find while excavating a cist, a type of stone-lined grave, in Mellor, Stockport.

The necklace consists of dozens of pierced amber beads of various sizes, linked together on a length of fibre.

It was discovered in the cist by experts from the university and local Mellor Archaeological Trust, who said the mystery was now how the material got to the north west.

It is the first time a necklace of this kind from the early Bronze Age has been found in north-west England.

The England cricket team is likely to return to India on December 3 for the next rounds of Test series against India. Earlier, the UK team returned, following security threats in the wake of the terror attack in Mumbai. The team was playing fifth ODI in Cuttack on Wednesday when Mumbai came under terror attack, leading to the suspension of the forthcoming matches.

The security issue has become very important for the next matches in Indian fields. England captain Kevin Pietersen hoped that security adviser Reg Dickason would allow them to play ODI matches.

London, Dec 2: A new book has determined that the Nazis conducted gruesome experiments on prisoners of war during the Second World War for medical research, which was in direct violation of basic medical ethics.

The book is called “The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster”, and has been authored by Richard Evans.

According to a report in the Telegraph, the book indicates that medicine was both dominant in the world of science under the Third Reich, and closely allied to the Nazi project.

German scientists used to conduct experiments on concentration camp inmates to gratify their own cruel impulses, according to Evans.

London, December 2 : An Australian team of scientists has come up with a way to turn smart implants that deliver a drug to just the right place in the body into “biobatteries” that release the medicine at exactly the right rate.

Gordon Wallace of the University of Wollongong in New South Wales highlights the fact that presently it is very difficult to control how quickly implants release their payload.

The researcher says that the biobattery produces a current of a known strength that controls the drug’s release.

A research article on his approach reveals that the smart implant is based on magnesium alloy stents that are being developed for surgeons to use as temporary splints to keep damaged blood vessels in shape while they heal.