Islamabad, Sept 19 : Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that in the wake of the recent, rather ongoing, US strikes on its soil, the rules of engagement between Pakistan and the US in the war on terrorism needed to be reviewed.

“We can also sit as a government and see if they need to be reviewed,” said Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, while complaining that Pakistan had not been informed about Wednesday’s attack in South Waziristan.

Washington, September 19 : Studying the mating and nesting practices of a common Australian frog, Monash University researchers have found that they partner up to eight males sequentially, the highest recorded of any vertebrate.

Research leader Phillip Byrne, from the university’s School of Biological Sciences, has revealed that the new behaviour observed in the frog species Bibron''s toadlet
(Pseudophryne bibronii) had never been detected in any frog species to date.

"Our study revealed that females made the active decision to distribute their eggs between the nests of up to eight different males," he said.

Melbourne, Sep 19 : Australia’s relationship with China could be affected by the US election results and the Australian influence is limited to reacting to US actions, a former American diplomat has said.

Former Clinton government official Derek Shearer said Republican candidate John McCain would be more forceful with China, while a Barack Obama Democrat Administration is likely to be less confrontational.

Now visiting Australia on a US state department tour, the former US Ambassador to Finland, said he expected tough foreign diplomacy from Senator McCain.

Washington, Sept 19 : The US seems to be caught between India and Pakistan as far as upgrading the F-16 jets is concerned. While the US Congress has already okayed the programme, one major risk for the US involved in the exercise of letting the programme to go through could be straining the ties with India, Thomas Houlahan, the Director of “Military Assessment Programme” has written in an article.

He added that this risk is “offset, and possibly outweighed” by the risk of strained relations with Pakistan if the programme were to be sidetracked.

“The risk that the increasing capability gap between India and Pakistan may increase the possibility of war must also be considered,” the Daily Times quoted Houlhan as saying in the article.

Washington, Sept. 19 : Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama scathingly attacked Republican rival John McCain over the economy on Thursday, and suggested that the latter was "ranting" as the national financial crisis continues.

Obama mocked McCain for saying, earlier in the day, that he wanted to fire the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

"Don''t just get rid of one guy. Get rid of this bureaucracy," the Washington Post quoted Obama, as saying.

By favoring both greater regulation and less, Obama said, McCain "can''t decide whether he''s Barry Goldwater or Dennis Kucinich."

Denver (Colorado US), Sept. 19: An English teacher at Denver’s Metropolitan State College is being investigated by the college for bias, bullying and harassment after he gave students in his class an assignment to “undermine” Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.

Metropolitan State College spokeswoman Cathy Lucas told FOX News that the college has not received a formal complaint against Professor Andrew Hallam, but the school is asking students who know more to come forward.