London, Dec. 11: An Islamic jihadist forum member who urged supporters to upload propaganda videos onto YouTube has called for a similar "Facebook invasion".

US-based monitoring service SITE Intelligence Group reported that the appeal was made on al Faloja, a password-protected jihadist forum.

According to a Sky News report, the forum member, using the name Omar Abdul Hakim, called on others to use the social networking site Facebook, describing it as "a podium to reach millions of people."

“We will use Facebook as a new and exclusive media tool to fight the media offensive on jihadist media, its forums, and its websites and in order to reveal the Crusaders,” Hakim is quoted, as saying.

Lok Sabha member Chaudhary Munawwar Hasan was killed in a road accident near Palwal in Haryana on Wednesday.

He was 45.

Hasan "was brought dead to Apollo Hospital at 3 am," a hospital spokesperson said.

Hasan was elected on a Samajwadi Party ticket from Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh in 2004, had defected to BSP at the time of July 22 trust votes.

He was expelled by the Samajwadi Party which also filed a petition seeking his disqualification from the House.

Washington, Dec 11: With the holiday season in full swing, markets are thronged by shoppers of various kinds, which can be classified into: normal, neurotic, primitive and psychotic, says an economist.

According to the National Retail Federation, more than 172 million shoppers hit the stores on Black Friday weekend this year – up from 147 million in 2007.

It has been informed by an Australian psychology lecturer that though abbreviated "text speak" is quicker to write than normal English, it takes twice as long to read.

Nenagh Kemp of the University of Tasmania concluded this through his study under which he took 55 students who took about 26 seconds to read a "text speak" message aloud while it took only 14 seconds for them to read similar messages written out with full English spelling.

In the past recent years, tremendous achievement gains have been made by American fourth- and eighth-grade students in math, claims an international survey of student achievement, released on Tuesday. However, performance in Science was flat.

It was put forward by the results that many Asian countries continued to outperform the United States greatly in science and math. Both these subjects are really important for economic competitiveness and research.

The CBI declared that there is no evidence of SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and his kin amassing disproportionate assets, a charge the very same agency had been keen to establish just a year ago.

Mulayam Singh Yadav led Samajwadi Party had changed its stance and extended its support to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in the crucial July 22 confidence motion in the Lok Sabha.