Washington, Oct. 22 : Republican presidential candidate John McCain will fight the 2008 election to the end, though his path will be difficult.

According to a Washington Post analysis, McCain still has a fortnight left to try to change the trajectory of the race. The paper also predicts that unexpected things can happen in the remaining days, though the GOP’s future is almost certain to be different to what it has been the last decade.

Washington, Oct 22 : A new study has suggested that contrary to popular belief, polar dinosaurs may not have traveled nearly as far as originally thought when making their bi-annual migration, which questions dinosaurs as being truly the first great migrators.

University of Alberta researchers Phil Bell and Eric Snively undertook the study.

Bell and Snively have suggested that while some dinosaurs may have migrated during the winter season, their range was significantly less than previously thought, which means their treks were shorter.

The idea that these animals may have traveled distances nine times further than mule deer or four times those of wildebeest would have made them the greatest migrators in history.

National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) said that global slowdown would affect Indian IT world in indirect manner. Indian information technology and business process outsourcing (BPO) companies are vulnerable to a short term impact of world financial crisis. The IT companies have started to slowdown their decision making activities. They are investing and spending very carefully. But Indian companies are still hiring the employees and confident to restore the normalcy very soon.

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Beijing, Oct 22: China has reportedly hailed the opening up of bilateral trade between India and Pakistan through two road routes after 60 years, saying that the two countries would work harder to promote bilateral relations.

“China is a neighbour and friend of both Pakistan and India,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang during a press briefing in Beijing here last evening.

On the occasion, Gang also said that Beijing would continue to co-operate with Pakistan in its endeavour in the civilian nuclear energy field. “I have repeated on many occasions that we have sound co-operation and relations with Pakistan. We would like to continue this co-operation on the basis of equality and mutual benefit.”

London, Oct 22 : The global Internet auction site eBay has announced that from January 2009, it will ban the sale of ivory from all its 39 websites worldwide.

According to a report in New Scientist, the move was prompted by a report exposing the scale of potentially illegal Internet trade in wildlife products, especially ivory.

Although eBay introduced a ban in June 2007 on sales of ivory between countries, transactions involving ivory have continued, according to ‘Killing with Keystrokes’, a report by the Fund for Animal Welfare.