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According to the official reports, Everglades National Park in Florida was returned Friday to UNESCO's list of threatened World Heritage Sites.

The park is subject to "serious and continuing degradation of its aquatic ecosystem," said the World Heritage Committee of the U. N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The Everglades was placed on the list of sites at risk in 1993 because of continued water quality problems and damage from Hurricane Andrew and removed in 2007.

Over a third of young individuals suffer from hypertension owing to unbalanced diet and binge drinking.

As per the survey, a worrying 35% of those aged 16-34 have high blood pressure, regardless of the widespread faith that it is an 'old age' trouble.

Around one in 20 of those showed harsh or very severe raised BP level, the examination conducted on over 8,000 people in Britain discovered.

Gen. Peter Chiarelli said on Friday that the U. S. Army cannot reduce its suicide rate by screening out recruits who might become suicide risks.

It has been reported that Chiarelli, the Army vice chief of staff, held a news conference at the Pentagon to discuss a new report on military suicide. He commissioned the report after the suicide rate among soldiers exceeded that among civilians for the first time since the Vietnam era.

Officials have said that a claim that U. S. officials were offered a chance to review stolen military documents before they were posted on the WikiLeaks site is untrue.

Marine Corps spokesman Col. David Lapan said in a Defense Department release, "It's absolutely false that WikiLeaks contacted the White House and offered to have them look through the documents."

According to Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, malnutrition is not a major cause of death among babies as a report shows that only 2% children die of it in the country.

Azad said, "As per the latest available data with the Registrar General of India (RGI) for 2001-03, two percent of the total infant deaths were due to malnutrition."

But, the minister said that malnutrition may raise morbidity as well as mortality by cutting resistance to illnesss.

The United Nations has said that fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has uprooted almost 90,000 civilians from their homes in the east of the country.

A U. N. release said on Friday that clashes between the national army and the Ugandan rebel group known as the Allied Democratic Forces-National Army for the Liberation of Uganda have killed at least six civilians and wounded dozens of others.