Washington, Mar. 29 : US First Lady Michelle Obama has spent the past month travelling to North Carolina to rally military families, standing next to Hillary Clinton to encourage women to get politically active, showing up at a home-building site on the National Mall, visiting a District of Columbia school to talk up good grades and shovelling dirt for a "kitchen garden" at the White House.

In between, the Council of Fashion Designers of America announced that it would honour her with a special tribute for her contribution to the fashion industry, reports Politico.

Washington, Mar 29 : Republicans appear to be crafting their own version of Bill Clinton''s legendary campaign phrase in an effort to recapture both chambers in Congress next year.

According to FOX News, sixteen years ago, Bill Clinton surged to an improbable presidential victory over incumbent George H. W. Bush, primarily on the strength of a snarky campaign phrase: "It''s the economy, stupid."

Now, the Republicans have come up with a message: President Obama''s fiscal policy "spends too much, taxes too much and borrows too much."

Washington, Mar 29 : Lead vocalist for band Good Charlotte Joel Madden has revealed that he has no idea who famed Nadya ‘Octomom’ Suleman is .

Even though Suleman has been in the highlight for quite sometime, making headlines and gracing magazine covers, Madden was unaware of her existence.

“I don’t know anything about the Octuplet mom,” Fox News quoted him as saying.

His fiancée Nicole Richie had no comment on the topic either and said she “didn’t want to talk about that”, when the subject was brought up.

Washington, Mar 29 : In a breakthrough study, researchers have developed a new stem cell therapy that may help in treating hearing impairment.

Deafness typically involves the loss of sensory receptors, called hair cells, for their "tufts" of hair-like protrusions, and their associated neurons.

Led by Dr. Marcelo N. Rivolta of the University of Sheffield, researchers have has successfully isolated human auditory stem cells from foetal cochleae (the auditory portion of the inner ear) and found that they could be differentiated into sensory hair cells and neurons.

Islamabad, Mar 29 : The Pakistan senate committee on national security has declared that the continuing of US drone attacks on Pakistani territory is a failure of the government’s foreign policy.

The committee made this observation while expressing its displeasure with US President Barack Obama for not announcing a halt to drone attacks when he revealed his new Afghanistan-Pakistan policy on Friday.

The National Assembly body also asked Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi to appear before the committee on April 6, and brief it on the new US policy on Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Washington, March 29 : Researchers at the University of Navarra Hospital say that high-dosage perioperative brachytherapy can prove very useful in the treatment of head and neck tumours, and for reducing the period of radiation.

Brachytherapy is a radiotherapy treatment involving the placing of radioactive sources within the tumour or nearby.

The scientists say that their work describes the application of this new radiotherapy technique to 40 patients between 2000 and 2006.