Washington, Oct 23 : Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has thrown her weight behind Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to make sure that he stands before the nation as a President with the political strength to break the gridlock, get things done, and start progress going in America again.

“We’re throwing everything we’ve got into making sure (Obama) stands before the nation as a President with the political strength to break the gridlock, get things done, and start progress going in America again. And with a filibuster-proof Senate, we''ll be able to bring the change this country so desperately needs,” Clinton wrote.

The USD continued to advance against most majors but lost ground against Yen to end the day mixed and at new highs for the year. Stops were triggered in thin trade traders report suggesting that some bottom-picking has been done recently but the relentless one-way USD advance today made quick work of the USD bears today. Traders report that conditions were horrible and volumes almost non-existent suggesting that a potential bottom is once again forming.

With most traders focusing almost exclusively on liquidity, bank lending and the financial crisis, it appears evident that finding a USD bear will be hard work. In my view, the charge higher by the USD is suspect because it can't last due to the underlying fundamentals being what they are.

At least 19 people, including 10 children, were killed in a fire cracker explosion in Bharatpur district of Rajasthan.

London, Oct 23: Russian archeologists have claimed that the Russians were the first people on the planet to cultivate land, breed cattle and make earthenware.

Russian tribes inhabited Khabarovsk Region in the Stone Age, the archeologists said after finding a 15,000-year-old hunters’ settlement on the bank of the Amur River in Khabarovsk.

According to a report in Press TV, stone axes, knives, scrapers, arrowheads and baked earthenware have so far been unearthed in the area.

“It was the first earthenware on the globe, and though it was primitive, with plain decoration, and poorly baked, yet it was a significant landmark in the history of mankind,” said Andrei Malyavin, an employee of Khabarovsk Archeology Museum.

According to an Ovum report entitled “Market Share: 2Q08 Asia-Pacific ON”, ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”), a global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, has recorded another sterling industry sales growth in the segment of Optical Networking (ON) during the second quarter.

The report shows that ZTE has the highest ON annual sales growth in Asia Pacific, with an 8% market share, the 4th highest in the region.

London, Oct 23 : Scientists have now made it possible to store information inside the nucleus of an atom—a breakthrough that has paved the way for a quantum computer which could crack problems unsolvable by current technology.

Touted as the holy grail of computing, quantum computing involves individual piece of information, or ‘bit’, which can have more than one value at once, as opposed to current technology which is limited to either 1s or 0s. This can dramatically escalate the processing power and thus widens the scope of what computers can do.