Washington, Sep 10 : The Indo-US nuclear should not be unnecessarily delayed and brought to a final vote immediately in American Congress because if this historic deal is finalised, it will contribute to strengthening global nonproliferation, said an US based Asia expert.

Lisa Curtis, Senior Research Fellow for South Asia at the Heritage Foundation said that by making New Delhi a stakeholder in a system seeking to adapt itself to the most serious proliferation threats of the 21st century, there is no good reason to delay this landmark initiative any longer.

New York - The US fourth-largest investment bank Lehman Brothers announced Wednesday in New York a preliminary third-quarter loss of a 3.9 billion dollars, in a continuation of the company's financial woes.

The loss compares to an 877 million-dollar profit in the same quarter in 2007.

The company also announced a radical restructuring plan that would include drastic reduction of its annual dividend payment and the selling of its majority stake in its investment management business in order to acquire billions of urgently-needed capital.

Job losses are also on the table, it said.

Washington, Sept. 10 : Pastors or, should we say former pastors, don’t seem to gell with either the Republican camp or the rival Democratic campaign.

If Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama had a problem with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who claimed that the 9/11 attacks were a case of “America’s chickens coming home to roost”, Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s former pastor at the Wasilla Assembly of God Church, has generated fresh controversy by saying that he sees powerful signs that the end of the world is close.

Washington, Sept. 10 : Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is now making the pitch that his Republican rival John McCain has miscalculated by focusing the discussions on who can do more to change Washington.

During a brief news conference in Ohio, Obama dismissed the polls and said the real significance is that the Republicans have decided to challenge him on his own turf.

Washington, September 10 : Ever wondered why predatory wasps hunt free-flying bees, rather than foraging bees directly from the honeybee nest?

Well, researchers at the University of Graz, Austria, and the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK, say that it is all because the shimmering—a remarkable capacity of rapid communication in giant honeybees—acts as a defensive mechanism and repels predatory hornets.

The researchers describe shimmering as a phenomenon wherein thousands of honeybees flip their abdomens upwards within a split-second to produce a Mexican Wave-like pattern across their nests.

Washington, Sept. 10 : Since her rapid transition from an obscure Alaska governor to Republican vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin has reenergized the presidential race and further polarized it. According to the Washington Post, women who are "fed up with a man''s world," see in Palin a ray of hope about what they would want their futures to be.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that Palin has also mobilized liberal women, claims the paper.