Washington, Sept 29 : Senator Barack Obama’s new campaign video features a ‘Bad News’ picture of a Senator John McCain victory.

According to the Washington Times, the YouTube video shows a mock MSNBC projection of Senator McCain “winning” the November 4 contest with 51 per cent, to 49 per cent vote against Obama.

“John McCain elected 44th president” and “Voter turnout lower than expected” are the mock captions with an MSNBC “Breaking News” headline under a smiling McCain.

London, Sept 29 : Very often you find yourself cringing with embarrassment when your father dons that floral shirt or gets up to shake-a-leg with your pals at your birthday party. And now scientists have proposed an explanation to such behaviour amongst teenagers.

The scientists allege that the adolescent brain process the emotions of embarrassment and guilt differently from those of adults.

Washington, September 29 : Ancient Greek texts like “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey” are revealing new secrets about the ancient world, the most prominent being the discovery of a site that might be the city of Troy. 

Thanks to evidence from a range of disciplines, experts are in the middle of a massive reappraisal of these foundational works of Western literature. 

Recent advances in archeology and linguistics offer the strongest support yet that the Trojan War did take place, with evidence coming from the large excavation at the likely site of Troy, as well as new analysis of cuneiform tablets from the dominant empire of the region. 

Washington, Sep 29 : Demonstrators have gathered to demand that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to keep her earlier pledge to cooperate with the corruption probe know as “Troopergate”. 

But an investigation that once seemed of interest only to Alaskans has taken on much greater significance with her presence on the Republican presidential ticket, the CBS News reports. 

At the Alaska Legislative Building in downtown Anchorage on Friday, the hearing room was ready for seven state employees subpoenaed to testify. But no one showed up. 

The inquiry into Palin''s firing of the head of the state police began with her promising full cooperation. 

London, Sept.29: Islamic extremists have warned of a wave of reprisals over a controversial book about the Prophet Mohammed after the home of its publisher was firebombed.
 
Hard line clerics have said that further attacks would be "inevitable" if publication of the novel, The Jewel of Medina, goes ahead as planned next month.
 
A Telegraph report said that the attack came days after Rynja's company, Gibson Square, bought the rights to the book by the American writer Sherry Jones, which has already been likened to Sir Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses.

New York, Sept. 29: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign to wrest the White House from Republican rival John McCain has gathered steam.

Over the past fortnight, the Illinois Senator has managed to narrow McCain’s lead and is now up by as many as six or seven points.

Pollsters say that’s in part because the vital independent voters are now shifting his way.

“There are still a substantial number of independents that are undecided, principally independent women,” says pollster John Zogby.