Chicago, March 29 : Michelle Obama has changed the way tickets are distributed for the yearly Easter Egg Roll at the White House by making them available online.

The U. S. First Lady reworked the conventional "first come, first served'''' process, which had previously seen many piling all night on the Ellipse before the roll, to make it more accessible for those from other towns.

Washington, Mar 29 : Drug-eluting stents are much safer and superior to bare metal stents in preventing death and heart attacks among cardiac patients, according to researchers from Duke University Medical Center.

For their study, the researchers tested drug-eluting stents among 262,700 "real-world" patients enrolled in a nationwide registry of cardiovascular disease.

The study is the largest of its kind to date, and may finally put an end to years of controversy over the safety of the devices.

Washington, Mar 29 : The United States fully supports the elected leadership of Pakistan and will work with them closely to ensure that the enhanced American assistance is used toward socio-economic uplift of the people as part of efforts to deal with violent extremism afflicting the country.

US official Bruce Riedel, chair and lead author of the panel that crafted the policy for the Obama Administration’s way forward in the Pakistan-Afghanistan region, called for proceeding cautiously on putting any overly-legislative or other restrictions on aid for Pakistan.

Washington, Mar 29 : The space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven have safely returned to Earth. But the one thing pilots can’t get out their noses is space’s “weird” smell.

"One thing I''ve heard people say before, but it wasn''t so obvious, was the smell right when you open up that hatch," Live Science quoted Discovery pilot Dominic "Tony" Antonelli, as saying after a March 21 spacewalk.

"Space definitely has a smell that''s different than anything else,” Antonelli added.

Washington, Mar 29 : They say people with opposite traits make for loving couples, but a new study is not obliging with the belief.

The research, published in the journal Evolutionary Psychology, says when it comes to personality, people seek partners with their same qualities — but say they want someone who is different.

To reach the conclusion, researchers quizzed 760 members of an online dating site to answer questionnaires regarding their personality traits, as well as the traits they would want in an ideal long-term partner.

Washington, Mar 29: The space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven have safely returned to Earth. But the one thing pilots can't get out their noses is space's "weird" smell.

"One thing I''ve heard people say before, but it wasn''t so obvious, was the smell right when you open up that hatch," Live Science quoted Discovery pilot Dominic "Tony" Antonelli, as saying after a March 21 spacewalk.

"Space definitely has a smell that''s different than anything else," Antonelli added.