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Strict audit trail needed for every single penny of US military aid to Pakistan: Mullen

Strict audit trail needed for every single penny of US military aid to Pakistan: MullenWashington, Apr. 3 : The United States has announced a three fold increase in civilian aid to Pakistan, and is also planning to spend another three billion dollars over the next five years to equip and train the Pakistan Army against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, but the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen has made it clear that there is an urgent need to maintain a check on the aid to ensure its proper and correct use.

New storage system design brings hydrogen cars closer to reality

New storage system design brings hydrogen cars closer to reality

Journalists given number to call Clinton turns out to be a phone sex line!

Phone CallWashington, Apr 3: US journalists seeking to talk a little on foreign policy with high-profile Obama Administration officials got a shock when they dialled a toll-free number to join a conference call with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and National Security Advisor James Jones in London.

The White House accidentally listed a sex line number for journalists seeking an on the record briefing call with Clinton and Jones.

The number turned out to be a sex chat line inviting callers to use their credit card numbers. “Do you have any hidden desires?” a sultry-voiced woman asked.

Heart cells can develop into adulthood

Heart cells can develop into adulthoodWashington, April 3 : In what may eventually hold great significance for patients who have suffered myocardial damage as a result of a heart attack, a study has shown that cells in a human heart can develop into adulthood and their age is, on average, six years younger than the individual.

Scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Karolinska Institute, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon, Lund University, and Lund University Hospital made these findings by using the amount of carbon 14 in the atmosphere from above-ground nuclear testing in the 1950s and 1960.

Now, a computer that can work like a scientist to derive natural laws

Now, a computer that can work like a scientist to derive natural lawsWashington, April 3 : Researchers at Cornell University, US, using a computer, have developed an algorithm which can derive natural laws from observed data, just like scientists.

What the researchers have done is to teach a computer to find regularities in the natural world that become established laws - yet without any prior scientific knowledge on the part of the computer.

US working to cut “historic” ISI stranglehold on Pak Army, Government

US working to cut “historic” ISI stranglehold on Pak Army, GovernmentWashinton, Apr. 3: The Unites States is certainly worried by the increasing influence of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) on the government, with a top Pentagon official saying that Washington is keeping a close watch on the issue and is trying to reduce the cooperation between the ISI and the Pak Army.

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