Washington. Mar 16: A new study has revealed that people who have lost cells in the hippocampus area of the brain are more likely to develop dementia.

For the study, researchers involved 64 people with Alzheimer''s disease, 44 people with mild cognitive impairment, which is the stage of memory problems that precedes Alzheimer''s disease, and 34 people with no memory or thinking problems.

They performed MRI scans on all of the participants at the beginning of the study and again an average of a year and a half later.

Washington, Mar 17: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned President Asif Ali Zardari and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif that American lawmakers might balk at sending Pakistan more aid if the crisis over the reinstatement of the deposed Chief Justice persisted.

“She warned them that Congressional appropriations would be at risk,” said one US official, who asked not to be named.

Washington, March 17 : New analysis of the fossil of a dinosaur that was found in 1982 in Canada has suggested that it was smaller than a modern day housecat, which indicates that there might have been many `mini dinosaurs' prowling the continent of North America.

The analysis was done by Nick Longrich, a paleontology research associate in the University of Calgary's Department of Biological Sciences and University of Alberta paleontologist Philip Currie.

They describe a new genus of carnivorous dinosaur that was smaller than a modern housecat and likely hunted insects, small mammals and other prey through the swamps and forests of the late Cretaceous period in southeastern Alberta, Canada.

London, March 17: Ace footballer Cristiano Ronaldo was apparently left angered after a vagrant gobbed on his 150,000-pound Bentley car.

According to reports, the Big Issue seller was pleading Ronaldo to buy a copy of the 1.50-pound magazine.

However, when the 100,000-pound-a-week ace ignored his pleas, he lost his cool.

The vendor brushed past Ronaldo, and hopped in the motor.

He even swore at the Man United star, and challenged the latter to get out and fight.

Washington, March 17: When a group of musicians perform during a concert, their brains become synchronised in the same fashion as their instruments do, according to a new study.

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and the University of Salzburg came to this conclusion after recording the brain electrical activity in eight pairs of guitarists with the aid of electroencephalography (EEG).

Washington - German Economics Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg met with top managers of General Motors Corp on the future of the US carmaker's German subsidiary Opel.

No details were released from late Monday's talks in Washington, which lasted more than two hours.

GM chief executive Rick Wagoner was the top participant from the struggling US carmaker.