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Barely hours after Spain won the World Cup Anil Kapoor was fatigued and yet euphoric in Johannesburg. He had seen what he called the greatest show on earth and met the man who made it possible.

Being the brand ambassador to South Africa Anil had a ringside view of the match. And he's most impressed.

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Bollywood Neetu Chandra has got the privilege of running with the torch of Commonwealth Games in her home town this week. She is one of the lucky Bollywood celebrities, who got the honorable opportunity.

The torch, which is famously known as `Queen's Baton', will reach New Delhi at the venue of the 2010 Commonwealth Games on October 3, 2010 on the opening ceremony. Before this, it will travel 70 nations of the Commonwealth and will tour across India, where millions of people will join in the celebration.

Researchers claim that the usage, of computer programs help create a faster and efficient mode of vaccine development in case of new strains of flu viruses.

Dimitris Papamichail, and colleagues from Stony Brook University have designed algorithms that will help in development of viruses that may prove it to be live vaccines which help in synthesis specifications and this method is termed as Synthetic Attenuated Virus Engineering (SAVE).

Through this approach researchers made a synthetic genome of the virus containing hundreds of changes to its genetic code.

The Advisory Board of Lakmé Fashion Week (LFW) has decided to take the selection procedure in their own hands. Banking on the achievements from the preceding season, the board representing LFW is to select the next generation and up-and-coming designers for the forthcoming LFW Winter/ Festive 2010. As we know, LFW is the nation's premiere fashion and business event and with every passing year, it has been gaining prominence.

People with pre-existing heart or lung conditions, with an exposure to high levels of traffic-related air pollutants is associated with lowered heart rate variability (HRV).

HRV is supposedly the cause or a risk factor for sudden cardiac death.

Through an observational study which included 30 Atlanta-area residents with lung disease (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) or heart disease (previous myocardial infarction) it was surveyed for the ambient levels of air pollutants in the areas where the patients lived were unrelated to HRV.