Washington, Mar. 26 : The United States has said it will continue to assist the present and future democratically elected government in Pakistan in tackling issues on all fronts, including terrorism and the economic crisis clearly indicating that it would also tender support to the PML-N in case it succeeds the Zardari regime.

Washington, March 26 : In a new research, scientists have determined that as soot particles in the atmosphere age, airborne sulfuric acid may help turn them into condensation nuclei, which enable the formation of clouds.

The research was conducted by Alexei F. Khalizov and colleagues from Texas A and M University, who worked alongside researchers from University of Minnesota, and Lund University, Sweden.

Carbon soot aerosols from combustion of fossil fuels and forest fires directly influence the Earth-atmosphere heat balance by absorbing sunlight.

New York, Mar 26 : Late Natasha Richardson’s organs have been donated to waiting transplant patients as gifts of life.

Sources have revealed that her husband Liam Neeson, mother Vanessa Redgrave, and other members of the family agreed that Natasha should donate her organs to people in queue for transplants.

The actress had become brain-dead from a fall on a ski slope two days before her family sorrowfully pulled the plug on her.

"Doctors spent six hours harvesting all her organs," the New York Post quoted a source as saying.

Washington, Mar 26 : People who consume cannabis on daily basis are likely to show episodes of psychosis and schizophrenia, according to a doctoral thesis.

Miguel Ruiz Veguilla, from the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Granada in Spain, also claimed that the episodes of psychosis because of marijuana intake present certain specific characteristics, both before their appearance and in the clinical presentation of the psychosis.

Washington  - North Korea is loading a Taepodong missile onto a launch pad ahead of what Pyongyang said is a plan to place a satellite into space, a US official confirmed.

"It is out there," the counter-proliferation official said Wednesday. "It's the latest indication the North Koreans are moving forward with their announced plans to launch."

The official confirmed earlier Japanese media reports that the rocket was being moved onto the launch pad for North Korea's announced April 4-8 launch.

Washington, Mar 26 : By mapping the entire genome of a bacterium that infects a close relative of the fruit fly, scientists at Uppsala University have found that gene exchange is widespread among this sex-manipulating bacteria.

The finding paves the way for using sex-manipulating bacteria as environmentally friendly pesticides against harmful insects.