London  - Citing the cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe as yet another sign of ruin in Zimbabwe, a top ranking official in Britain's Anglican Church Sunday added his voice to the calls for President Robert Mugabe to be forced out of office and put on trial in The Hague.

The call by John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York and second only to the Archbishop of Canterbury in the church hierarchy, followed similar urgings from South African Bishop Desmond Tutu, who Friday called for the international community to intervene.

Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), India’s top utility vehicle and tractor manufacturer has announced that it intends to cease five of its plants temporarily between 3 to 6 days.

Recent research has shown that intelligent men produce better quality sperm. The research was carried out to asses the idea that intelligence is favored by natural selection.

Research team at King's College London analysed data from 4,462 former US soldiers who had served during the Vietnam War. The soldiers took several intelligence tests and underwent a detailed medical examination. Semen samples were also provided by 425 soldiers. Data analysis showed small but statistically significant correlation between intelligence and three measures of sperm quality.

The World Health Organisation said that the number of deaths caused by measles dropped 74% in the past seven years worldwide, thanks to dramatic progress in Africa and nations including Afghanistan and Pakistan, The number of deaths dropped by half a million between 2000 and 2007, from an estimated 750,000 to 197,000.

There has been 89% drop in measles deaths in Africa which is two-thirds of the global reduction. There was 90% decrease in deaths caused by measles in the eastern Mediterranean region, which includes Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Sudan from 96,000 to 10,000.

Recent study revealed that deadly lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) makes patients three times more prone to severe cardiac events such as a heart attack.

Research team analysed data from the computerised records of the Britain's Health Improvement Network for 920 patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and
3,593 control subjects without IPF for diagnoses of coronary events and disease incidence.

President Asif Ali Zardari said on Friday that Pakistan is awaiting "concrete proof" on suspicions that a Pakistan-based militant group was behind Mumbai attacks. Meanwhile recently discovered evidence indicate that the Mumbai attacks were controlled from at least two Pakistani cities by top leaders of the Pakistan-based terror group LeT, prime suspect in last week's attacks.

"Pakistan is currently doing its own internal investigation and is waiting for concrete proof to be handed over to us," Zardari told reporters after a trilateral meeting with the leaders of Turkey and Afghanistan.