San Francisco - Google is offering 10 million dollars as prize money in a competition aimed at transforming the world's best ideas into useful products.

As part of the company's 10th anniversary celebrations, Project 10 to the 100th asks people to submit ideas in seven categories to the project's website, www. project10tothe100. com.

New York - Pakistan's new President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday used the UN General Assembly podium to denounce the United States for conducting unauthorized military strikes against terrorist targets inside Pakistani territory.

"Unilateral actions of great powers should not inflame the passion of allies," Zardari said in his first appearance before a body that has been used often by some world leaders to attack US foreign policies.

One of the largest API manufacturers in Asia, Aurobindo Pharma Limited, has secured final approval from the US Food & Drug Administration (USFDA) to manufacture and market Didanosine Delayed Release (Enteric-Coated) Capsules 125mg, 200mg, 250mg and 400mg.

Didanosine Delayed Release Capsules is the generic version of Bristol Myer Squibb's Videx EC (Didanosine) Delayed-release Capsules and is indicated for the treatment of HIV-1 infections in combination with other antiretroviral in adults.

New York - Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Thursday warned the US Congress that a misstep on the financial crisis could make things much worse than they already are, and repeated his call for a bipartisan solution.

"For the Congress, this is one of those moments in history when poor decisions, made in haste, could turn a crisis into a far- reaching disaster," McCain said in a speech to the Clinton Global Intiative, a development foundation set up by former president Bill Clinton.

New York, Sept 25 : Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met the republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin in New York on Wednesday on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly session.

The meeting had generated considerable interests in American political circles with analysts saying that it would give an exposure to Palin in international diplomacy given the clout that India enjoys in the world arena.

Washington- The US Congress was moving closer to an agreement on the 700 billion-dollar financial rescue plan, lawmakers said Thursday, a day after a sombre US President George W Bush laid out the spectre of a "long and painful recession."

Republican presidential nominee John McCain, a senator from Arizona, said in broadcast remarks he was confident there would be an agreement "before markets open Monday morning."

Representative Paul Kanjorski of Pennsylvania told CNBC broadcaster that the package was "basically done."