Washington - President Barack Obama said he was closely watching an outbreak of swine flu in the United States, where 20 cases have so far been identified, but urged people to remain calm.

"This is obviously a cause for concern and requires a heightened state of alert, but it's not a cause for alarm," Obama said in a speech at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington.

Washington, Apr. 27: The Taliban’s agreement to pull out of Buner district in the North West Frontier Province following Pakistan’s deployment of paramilitary troops to the area demonstrates the Pakistan military has sent the right signal to the Taliban, feels an American expert on South Asian affairs.

Tehran, Apr. 27: Iran President Mohammad Ahmadinejad has said that he is yet to receive a response to his congratulatory message to US President Barack Obama.

“This was a major decision, although the Iranian people were very much dismayed with the conduct of previous U. S. administrations. And I was criticized here at home, in Iran. Nevertheless, I did that. I am yet to receive a response," Politico quotes Ahmadinejad, as saying.

New York, Apr 27: Cosmopolitan magazine’s new executive editor has created a stir by blaming Catholic nuns for ruining women''s sex lives.

Editor Nicole Beland was asked by a reader in her final April column, "My sexually repressed wife can''t even say ''sex'' without whispering. How can I help her open up?"

To which Beland replied, "It''s not easy to undo damage caused by years of exposure to Catholic-school nuns or overly conservative parents.

Washington, Apr. 27: According to alarming reports from Mexico City, Felipe Solis, a distinguished archaeologist who showed Obama around the city''s anthropology museum during his visit to Mexico earlier this month, died the next day from "flu-like symptoms".

According to The Independent, Solis met the President at a gala dinner which was held at the museum on April 16, before Obama travelled onto the Americas summit in Trinidad and Tobago.

Washington, April 27 : The discovery of two pottery kilns from the Roman era in Otford, a village in Kent, UK, could lead to a revaluation of their time in Britain, as it had not been thought that the firing of pottery - a huge industry in Roman times - was carried out in this area.

According to a report in the kent. co. uk, Sevenoaks archeologist Diarmaid Walshe spearheaded the dig of the kilns, which are around 4m in diameter.