Miranshah, Sept 18 : Despite the talks between top US military man Admiral Michael Mullen Mullen and his Pakistani counterpart Ashfaq Kayani to resolve the US’ unilateral strikes issue, spy planes were seen hovering over North Waziristan early morning today.

Drones appeared over Ghulam Khan, Saidgai, Danday Darpakhel, Miranshah, Mir Ali, Razmik, Datakhel and Hanzwani areas of North Waziristan, causing panic and tension among the people, The News reported.

Besides, drones were also seen patrolling over some areas of South Waziristan.

New York, Sept. 18: Racism has come to the fore again in the United States more than four decades after blacks were granted their civil and civic rights.

Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius has attracted praise for being realistic, controversy and criticism by issuing a statement that said that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama could still lose the elections because he is “black”.

Baghdad - Nine US soldiers were killed when their helicopter crashed west of the southern Iraqi city of Basra, the US army said Thursday.

Washington, Sept 18: It’s not just humans who find yawning contagious, for man’s best friend, dogs too can show empathy – by catching yawns off their owners.

According to the study’s researchers, the findings suggest that domestic dogs have the capacity for a fundamental form of empathy.

The phenomenon, called contagious yawning, has been found only in humans and other primates such as chimpanzees and is thought to relate to our ability to empathize with others.

Researcher Ramiro Joly-Mascheroni, a psychologist at Birkbeck, University of London first tested the phenomenon in his dog, a Labrador.

Singapore - For the third day in a row, hundreds of customers unconvinced of the soundness of American International Assurance (AIA) converged on the service centre in Singapore Thursday with many determined to surrender their policies.

"Even with the AIG bailout by the US government, everything is still uncertain," said Karen Tan, a 42-year-old woman with no intention of keeping her policies.

The US Federal Reserve bank's 85-billion-US-dollar loan to AIA's parent, American International Group (AIG), triggered little solace and so many more questions that the insurer opened a second service centre in the AIA Tower next door.

Wary policyholders were also lining up in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

New York, Sept. 18: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has retaken a lead over Republican rival John McCain, according to the latest CBS/NYT poll.

The poll indicates Obama as having taken a 48 percent to 43 percent lead over McCain among registered voters.

McCain had a two percentage point lead among registered voters in a CBS News poll released on September 8th, just after the Republican National Convention. Prior to the party conventions, Obama led McCain by three points.