Canberra, September 17: A team comprising of Australian and US researchers has discovered a new species of Pacific Iguana in the Fijian archipelago.

According to a report by ABC News, the team has shown that there are three living species of Brachylophus iguanas, not two as indicated in current taxonomy.

The new species is named ‘Brachylophus bulabula’, after the Fijian word for ‘hello’.

Peshawar, Sept 17 : Even as top American military man Michael Mullen is making a hurriedly planned visit to Islamabad to resolve the crisis over US’ unilateral strikes on Pakistan’s tribal areas, US drones were seen today hovering over the tribal region.

But, they left as soon as tribal people shot fired at them, reported The News.

According to tribal sources, US spy planes were seen patrolling over Mcckain, Ladha and other border areas along Pak-Afghan border. The angry tribals opened fire at the drones after which they flew back.

US drones were also seen flying over skies of Kurram Agency, added the paper.

Washington, Sept 17 : Children who worry a lot about conflicts between their parents are more likely to have problems in school, according to a new study.

The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Rochester, Syracuse University, and the University of Notre Dame, found that this happens because such kids have more difficulty paying attention to the tasks before them.

This study is one of the first to chart how children''s concerns about their parents'' relationship may increase their vulnerability to later adjustment problems.

For the study, researchers looked at a group of 216 predominantly White 6-year-olds, their parents, and their teachers annually over a three-year period.

Washington, September 17 : Geologists have uncovered the signs of ancient devastation on a remote tropical island of Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean, in the form of giant coral boulders deposited by a mega-tsunami thousands of years ago.

According to a report in Discovery News, Matthew Hornbach of the University of Texas, Austin, and a team of researchers discovered are seven giant boulders made of coral on the island of Tongatapu last year, which may represent the largest rocks ever deposited by a mega-tsunami.

“They just looked so out of place. Tongatapu is flat as a pancake, and here are seven boulders from bus-sized to house-sized sitting hundreds of meters inland and 10 to 
20 meters (33 to 66 feet) above sea level,” Hornbach said.

London/New York - Britain's Barclays bank has agreed to buy some of the core assets of stricken US investment bank Lehman Brothers for 1 billion pounds (1.75 billion dollars), the two banks said Wednesday.

Barclays had bought Lehman's North American investment banking and trading unit for 250 million dollars, and paid 1.5 billion dollars for its New York headquarters and two data centres following negotiations in New York.

Sana'a, Yemen - Two explosions were heard in the vicinity of the US embassy in the Yemeni capital Sana'a Wednesday, according to witnesses.