Lucknow, Feb 1: More than three crore children below the age of five will be given polio drops today, at the polio booths set up in 71 districts of Uttar Pradesh under the National Pulse Polio Immunisation Drive.

According to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, India has recorded 196 polio cases till April 22, 2008.

In comparison, three other countries where polio is still endemic - Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan- have together recorded 123 cases.

New York, February 1 : While people have been trying really hard to prevent their hard-earned money from being wasted on unnecessary transactions, a restaurant in New York City is offering a hard-to-beat recession special: pay what you want.

Thanks to the Tierra Sana restaurant on Queens Boulevard in Forrest Hills, people can now satisfy their hunger without having to empty their wallets.

From February 3 onwards, the restaurant will offer customers a "Pay What You Want" special on every Tuesday, including an array of appetizers, entrees, salads and desserts that are all health-conscious but still savoury.

Allahabad, Jan 31: Allahabad, in Uttar Pradesh, is celebrating Saraswati Puja with full fervour and gaiety at the fourth bathing festival of Magh mela.

Here, around 40 lakh Hindu devotees are expected to take the auspicious holy dip on the banks of Sangam, the confluence of Ganga, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati.

Patiala, Jan 31: Five new born babies were burnt alive and two others were seriously injuried on Saturday, when the incubators they were kept in caught fire at a private hospital in Patiala.

A total of 10 children, undergoing treatment for jaundice at Rajinder Hospital, were kept in phototherapy units. Reportedly, a short circuit in the wires of the machine resulted in the fire, charring five infants to death including three boys and two girls.

Sydney - Melbourne residents turned on authorities Saturday after enduring four days of record heat that knocked out power lines, sidelined commuter train services and stoked forest fires that have claimed at least 20 houses on the fringes of Australia's second-biggest city.

"It's an extraordinary situation, and Victorians have every right to be angry," opposition Liberal Party leader Ted Baillieu said in response to the tirade of criticism.

Train tracks - and the state's electricity grid - buckled in a record-breaking spell of three consecutive days of above 43-degree temperatures.

Washington, Jan 31: It has often been cited as a textbook example of a useless body part, but if a scientist is to be believed, belly button beauty may play a vital role in finding potential mates.

Aki Sinkkonen of the University of Helsinki, Finland says: "I was younger than nowadays, and some of my friends were discussing how some women have a beautiful umbilicus or navel.

"I was thinking, ''How is this possible? If this is scar tissue, how is it possible that it can be beautiful?"