Washington, Oct 31 : Refuting earlier claims, researchers from German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care have found that birth control pills does not deserve its reputation for causing weight gain.

Hormonal methods of contraception and intrauterine devices (IUDs) are the most effective long-term ways to avoid unwanted pregnancy.

And weight gain and weight loss were reported to be one of the adverse effects of the Pill.

According to the Institute''s Director, Professor Peter Sawicki, it turns out that many researchers were too quick to jump to the conclusion that the Pill was responsible.

London, Oct 31: England coach Fabio Capello reckons that David Beckham will be a great acquisition for AC Milan after the midfielder finalised his loan switch to the Italian giants.

Madrid - Brazilian striker Edu de Souza is out of action for around six weeks due to injury, his Spanish club Real Betis announced on Friday.

London, Oct 31: Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson has been branded ‘senile’ in Spain and compared to Spanish dictator General Franco.

Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon said Ferguson was ‘getting old’ after an interview in which Manchester United’s coach resurrected Real Madrid’s links with Franco.

Madrid-based paper Marca responded with a series of five pictures of Ferguson changing into Franco, with a headline ‘Ferguson Senile’.

I’m not going to waste any time answering him. I admire his history but recently he has gone a bit senile,” The Sun quoted Calderon, as saying.

Ferguson’s own comments came as he slaughtered Real’s arrogant pursuit of Ronaldo during the summer.

Washington, October 31: A team of University of Kent researchers has shown that the selection of male or female group leaders may depend upon specific situations that the members face.

Psychologists Mark Van Vugt and Brian R. Spisak made volunteers participate in an investment game to see whether gender influences the selection of group leaders during various group competition situations.

Each volunteer was given six dollars, any of that amount could be invested into a group fund, with the volunteer keeping the rest for themselves. The participants were told that they would receive a bonus if the group fund exceeded a certain amount.

London, Oct 31: A seven-year-old Australian boy has been barred from a pub for "unruly behaviour and being offensive to patrons’.

Ronnie Wighton, of Oakden, has been banned from the Rocks Tavern, Carpenter Rocks, for one month after being served with the notice by licensee Kevin Mullins.

The final straw came on a Sunday evening earlier this month, when Ronnie refused to get down from a wall he had climbed at the Rocks Tavern.

"I asked his father to take the boy home and told him he was welcome to come back and keep drinking with his mates but he said I wasn''t kicking him and his son out of the pub and told me to ring the police, which I did," the Telegraph quoted Kevin Mullins, the landlord, as saying.