London, Dec. 7 : The head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'' Connor, has said that while Britain has become an "unfriendly" place for religious people to live in, immigrant groups still have an obligation to understand, respect and adjust to "the ethos of the society they are opting to join."

"Our society has a corresponding obligation to encourage and help them to do so," The Telegraph quotes Murphy-O''Connor as saying further while blaming the rise of secularism as the key factor behind a British society that is liberal and is hostile to Christian morals and values.

Religious belief is viewed as "a private eccentricity" and the voice of faith groups is marginalized, he says.

Washington, Dec 7 : A new population of the extremely rare Tonkin snub-nosed monkey has recently been discovered in a remote forested area of northern Vietnam.

According to a report in Science Daily, the monkey, found by Fauna and Flora International (FFI), is called ''snub-nosed'' because of its unusual and distinctive up-turned nose.

Believed to be extinct until the late 1980s, only around 200 Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys are left in the world.

As a result, the primate is listed as Critically Endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Endangered Species.

Washington, Dec. 7 : U. S. President-elect Barack Obama has received the most positive campaign news coverage on the main network news shows in the 20-year history of such studies conducted by the Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA).

A Washington Times report says Obama received 68 percent positive evaluations from the four major networks.

Washington, Dec 7: A research team has stumbled upon evidence in a site in central-northern Italy that suggests that the area is the pottery center where the oil lamps that lighted the ancient Roman Empire were made.

According to a report in Discovery News, evidence of the pottery workshops emerged in Modena, in central-northern Italy, during construction work to build a residential complex near the ancient walls of the city.

“We found a large ancient Roman dumping filled with pottery scraps. There were vases, bottles, bricks, but most of all, hundreds of oil lamps, each bearing their maker’s name,” Donato Labate, the archaeologist in charge of the dig, told Discovery News.

Washington, Dec 7 (ANI): A new research has determined that young people find the prospect of driving cars more attractive than other modes of travel that are more environment friendly.

The research was conducted by Dr Tilly Line at the University of the West of England.

Dr Line’s work examined how young people are influenced by knowledge about climate change when it comes to making choices about how they will travel when they become adults.

The study concentrated on the views of young people aged between 11 and 18 years and the findings found an overwhelming desire by young people to drive.

Melbourne, Dec. 7 : South African pacer Dale Steyn, who will arrive in Australia today for a Test and one-day series, has that he is very keen to bury the demons of his last trip Down Under.

The centre piece of the Proteas attack, Steyn has repeatedly said that he has not forgotten the humiliation of being ripped apart by Australian and Sri Lankan batsmen in two one day internationals in 2005-06.

Steyn conceded 90 runs from eight overs during his frightful initiation to international cricket as a 22-year-old.

Now ranked the No. 1 quick in world cricket, he is seeking redemption and plans to get it by exposing the Australians to the fastest bowling spells of his career.