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Mumbai, Aug 5 - After getting favourable reviews for her role in "Lamhaa", Bipasha Basu is in no mood to swing back into fluffy, ultra-glam roles. The dusky actress says she has more serious stuff lined up - a film on honour killings and another on Goa's drug mafia.

In fact when actor and beau John Abraham saw Bipasha in "Lamhaa", based on the turmoil in the Kashmir Valley, he was so blown away that he advised her to only get into projects that brought out her acting skills.

According to US health functionaries, a whooping cough outbreak has affected more than 1,500 individuals across the different parts of the country.

State of California has witnessed more than 1,500 reports of pertussis, or whooping cough during the first six months of 2010 as compared to around 300 cases during the same period last year (2009).

Other US states such as Michigan, South Carolina, Ohio and New York have reported a surge in the incidence of whooping cough.

A study has found that about 30 percent of people in coastal Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida and Alabama say they suffer psychological distress from the oil spill.

The percentage of Louisiana coastal respondents afflicted with serious mental illness is double what it was among south Louisiana residents in July 2007, two years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the state, says Dr. Joseph E. Bisordi, chief medical officer of the Ochsner Health System.

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Police have revealed that a teenage girl allegedly snatched a 7-month-old from the arms of the infant's sister and threw him into the path of an oncoming bus in south London.

Sky News reported on Wednesday that seven-month-old Tavish Dabedeen hit his head and suffered bumps and bruises in the attack about 7:15 p. m. July 27 at a Croydon train station.

The bus driver managed to swerve and avoid hitting the baby, who was taken to the hospital.