Washington, Mar. 19 : North Korean soldiers have detained two American journalists and their guide while they were on a reporting trip near the country''s border with China, according to the State Department and their employer, Current TV.

U. S. State Department spokesman Fred Lash confirmed to CBS News Thursday that two Americans had been detained near the China-North Korea border two days earlier.

Washington, March 19 : A Yemeni archaeologist team has discovered a mosaic statue of an ancient queen sitting on a throne with her chest engraved with Musnad letters.

The archaeologists also found other relics including a stone board with faith signs engraved on it.

“Two pulls separated by a tree were carved on the stone board, a symbol that was known as “Life’s Tree” in ancient Yemeni civilization,” said Ali al-Sanabani, director of the authority.

Other symbols like crescent were imprinted on the disocvered relics.

New York, March 19 : Barack Obama has topped Rolling Stone’s list of ‘100 Agents of Change’, featuring those who “have powerful ideas” rather than the conventional meaning of the word.

The U. S. President grabbed the top spot followed by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who were hailed as “Lewis and Clark of the Internet”.

New York, Mar. 19 : Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff is being treated like a `lab rat’ in the super-max wing of the Manhattan federal lockup.

The unit is said to be so tough that it drives hardened criminals mad, the New York Daily News reports.

The unit is known as 10 South as it is located on the 10th floor of the lockup and houses the city''s toughest mobsters and most bloodthirsty terrorists.

Madoff, 70, has had to forget that he was once a vaunted Wall Street financier entrusted with billions of investment dollars.

The lights in the block burn 24 hours a day, and an inmate''s every move is caught on video.

Washington, Mar 19 : A new study has revealed that black girls are 50 percent more likely than white girls to suffer from the eating disorder bulimia.

The findings of the study led by researchers from University of Southern California, University of Maryland and Universitat de Autonoma Barcelona, Spain, challenge the widespread perception that bulimia primarily affects the privileged.

Asian-African girls, in particular, were found to be suffering the eating disorder.

Washington, Mar 19 : Two of the most commonly prescribed anti-seizure medications may increase the risk of cardiovascular problems, such as high cholesterol levels and C-reactive protein, according to a study.

The discovery of this repercussion in the treatment of epilepsy may help doctors offer better care of patients with seizures by prescribing different anti-seizure medications that do not harm cardiovascular health.