Paris - As investors began having second thoughts, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on Tuesday praised the United States' plan to rescue its badly ailing financial industry.

"We welcome and support the adoption of the systemic rescue plan announced by the US government ..., which will contribute to re-establish the normal operation of financial markets and preserve employment and economic activity," OECD head Angel Gurria said in a statement released in Paris.

Manila - The United States on Tuesday presented rewards totalling 900,000 dollars to 12 Filipino seamen who helped successfully prosecute polluters of US waters.

New York, Sept 23 : The US administration must put its weight behind the new civilian government in Islamabad to bolster its efforts to strike against terrorists in its territory, to keep alive any realistic hope of wining the war against terror in Afghanistan and bordering tribal areas in Pakistan.

According to an editorial in the New York Times, newly-elected Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari should be extended American help to fight back militancy. It described Zardari as a political novice who faced serious corruption charges.

Washington, September 23 : An international team of earth scientists has reported movement of warmed sea water through the flat, Pacific Ocean floor off Costa Rica, which is greater than that off midocean volcanic ridges, a find that suggests possible marine life in a part of the ocean once considered barren.

A new finding reported by American, Canadian and German earth scientists suggests a rather unremarkable area off the Costa Rican Pacific coast holds clues to better understand sea floor ecosystems.

The research team that has studied the region, located between 50 and 150 miles offshore and covering an area the size of Connecticut.

Washington, September 23: A new study has indicated that modest cutbacks in CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions may be too little, and it might be too late to save coral reefs.

Ocean acidification could devastate coral reefs and other marine ecosystems even if atmospheric carbon dioxide stabilizes at 450 ppm, a level well below that of many climate change forecasts, report chemical oceanographers Long Cao and Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology.

The researchers’ conclusions are based on computer simulations of ocean chemistry stabilized at atmospheric CO2 levels ranging from 280 parts per million 
(pre-industrial levels) to 2000 ppm.

Washington, Sept 23 : It’s not just humans who like cooked meals, for chimps too share the fondness for well-heated grub, according to a new study.

To reach the conclusion, Victoria Wobber and her graduate advisor at Harvard University, Richard Wrangham, along with a third colleague, gave a choice between cooked and raw food to a number of captive apes.

The analysis revealed that chimpanzees preferred cooked carrots, sweet potatoes, and beef over the raw alternatives. However, they did not express any preference in the case of white potatoes and apples.

This, according to scientist, is because both remain relatively unchanged by cooking, reports Live Science.