New York, Nov 6: US President-elect Barrack Obama's wife, Michelle, was criticised as well as praised for the dress she wore on election night.

She was wearing a red-and-black sheath by Narciso Rodriguez when she took to the stage at Grant Park in Chicago on November 4.

While some said that her dress was an eye-catching statement, others called it an eyesore.

"I voted for Obama, but I didn''t vote for that dress," the New York Times quoted Jessica Bettencourt, a homemaker and mother of three in Mequon, Wisc., as saying.

V.K. Suri, Vice-Chancellor of Chandrashekhar Azad Agriculture University, who last month shut the campus doors on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, tendered his resignation on Tuesday.

Washington, November 6: A bark extract from the French maritime pine tree can help reduce jet lag in passengers by nearly 50 percent, reveals a new study.

The study, carried out by G. D'Annunzio University in Pescara, Italy, and involving a brain CT scan and a scoring system, found that Pycnogenol reduced symptoms.

The findings included symptoms, found in both healthy individuals and hypertensive patients, such as fatigue, headaches, insomnia and brain edema (swelling), lower leg edema - a common condition associated with long flights.

London, Nov 6: Futile hard landings, which may turn out to be dangerous for both the passengers and for aircraft, could now be avoided—thanks to hard-landing detector that can be fitted into planes.

Hard landing detector can automatically find out any structural damage with the aircraft and tell if such a landing is needed or not.

So, planes could report when they need to be checked for damage, if they are equipped with such detectors, reports New Scientist.

Washington, Nov 6 : A new study by scientists has determined that a type of rock found at or near the surface in the Oman and other areas around the world could be harnessed to soak up huge quantities of globe-warming carbon dioxide (CO2).

Geologist Peter Kelemen and geochemist Juerg Matter, both from Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, made the discovery during field work in the Omani desert, where they have worked for years.