Washington, March 14 : Don't run here and there in search of good life, for just being grateful to the people around you may fill your life with happiness.

Associate Professor, who teaches Psychology at George Mason University, has found that gratitude-the emotion of thankfulness and joy in response to receiving a gift-is the best way to achieve happiness.

Through a number of studies he has conducted, Kashdan has learnt that gender plays a role when it comes to achieving well-being, and that men are much less likely to feel and express gratitude than women.

Washington, March 14: Doctors at Instituto Medico La Floresta in Caracas, Venezuela, have successfully performed the world’s first live human transvaginal nephrectomy using the Tri-port multi-channel port supplied by Advanced Surgical Concepts Ltd.

Washington - So you've resisted the move to Windows Vista? You're not alone. Although Vista is installed on most new PCs delivered today, this much-reviled successor to Windows XP has been a flop by many measures that matter: its uptake by businesses has been slow, complaints from consumers have been rampant, and the word-of- mouth damage has been so severe as to cause Microsoft to hurriedly ready Vista's successor, now expected by the end of this year.

Indian Wells, California  - Novak Djokovic insisted Friday that he has nothing to prove beyond trying to play his best tennis as he defends his title at the Indian Wells Masters.

Ranked third behind Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, the Serb opens play after a bye as the month-long US spring hard-court season begins in the California desert.

"I'm not trying to defend anything," said the 2008 Australian Open champion, who lifted the Dubai trophy late last month. "I'm always trying to improve, so I don't pay too much attention to the rankings."

Washington - US President Barack Obama has dropped previous policy of labeling Guantanamo Bay detainees as "enemy combatants," instead holding them under authority provided by Congress and under international law, the Justice Department said Friday.

In a document filed in federal court, the Justice Department broke with the predecessor Bush administration, which argued that the president had sole legal discretion as commander-in-chief to order detention of captives in the war on terrorism.

New York  - A day after disgraced financier Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty to masterminding a 50-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme, his lawyers Friday requested that the court release him from jail until his sentencing June 16.

Madoff, 70, was led off in handcuffs to jail Thursday after his plea before the lower Manhattan federal court to all 11 criminal counts. He could be sentenced to 150 years in jail for one of the largest financial swindles in history.