Washington, Aug. 29 : Responding to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s acceptance speech, the Republicans described it as a “misleading” one, given his "meagre" record.

Republican presidential aspirant John McCain, who had earlier congratulated Obama on his historic achievement of becoming the first African American US presidential nominee of a major party, said the Democrat was still not ready to be president.

McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds said: "Americans witnessed a misleading speech that was so fundamentally at odds with the meagre record of Barack Obama.”

Washington, Aug 29 : Reese Witherspoon has spoken against domestic violence during her recent visit to Brazil.

The Legally Blonde star is touring the South American country as part of her duties as she is the global ambassador of Speak Out Against Domestic Violence campaign.

The initiative was launched by the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the Avon cosmetics company in 2004.

And Witherspoon is hoping her involvement will help stamp out the abuse of women - insisting she herself has been close to people who were the victims of domestic violence.

Washington, August 29 : An Indian-origin scientist in the U. S. has devised a way to create six-dimensional images that respond to changes in light and the viewer''s direction, by adapting the basic technology used in cheap 3-D postcards and novelty items for the purpose.

"We are the first ones to build a display that changes with lighting. We''ve finally found a way to build the most realistic display," Discovery News quoted Ramesh Raskar, a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as saying.

Washington, Aug 29 : Researchers from Wildlife Conser

Denver, Aug 29 : Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign has brushed aside questions about its standing among traditional Democrats, saying it would win the presidential election by bringing new voters “particularly young people, blacks, Hispanics, and Independents” to the polls in November.

There are millions more Democrats today than when this process started and that’s going to be beneficial to us in November, said campaign’s chief strategist David Axelrod.

Washington, Aug 29 : The US is worried about the lack of a larger plan to improve the deteriorating security scenario in Afghanistan as senior defence officials are debating how many troops they can send there and how soon to bring the situation under control.

The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) reports that as political pressure mounts to do more to stop the violence in Afghanistan, there is an increasing fear in the Pentagon that sending in more forces is just a stopgap measure that masks the absence of a broader, viable strategy.