Washington, Mar 17: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have been asked to release United Nations staff members and three children, who have been forcibly detained by them for the past one week.

"The LTTE does not respect any international law, or even the rights of human dignity. If the terrorists will kidnap United Nations workers and their family members, the world can better understand how they treat innocent Sri Lankan civilians who are trying desperately to flee the conflict zone and seek safety," Sri Lanka''s Ambassador to the US, Jaliya Wickramasuriya said in a statement released by the embassy on Monday.

Washington, Mar 17: Porn star Jenna Jameson and her boyfriend of two years, Tito Ortiz, have become proud parents of twin boys.

"They're in very good health," her rep told Us magazine.

Washington, Mar 17: British researchers claim that hormone kisspeptin shows promise as a potential new treatment for infertility.

The study, led by Dr Waljit Dhillo from Imperial College London, has shown that giving kisspeptin to women with infertility can activate the release of sex hormones, which control the menstrual cycle.

According to researchers, the study could lead to a new fertility therapy for women with low sex hormone levels.

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.