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London, June 17 : An American researcher has shown that female giant pandas can tell one male's love calls from those of others, taking the first step towards proving that females among the animals use these bleats to choose their mates.

Ben Charlton, a biologist at Zoo Atlanta, says that this finding attains significance as a gaining a better understanding of how females pick their mates might help zoos breed the notoriously picky and endangered animals.

Hanoi - Vietnamese authorities Wednesday criticized a US decision to maintain anti-dumping duties on catfish imports from Vietnam.

The US International Trade Commission said Monday it would keep the tariff on frozen fillets of Vietnamese catfish, known in the US as "basa" and "tra," for fear that lifting the duty would harm the domestic catfish industry within a "reasonably foreseeable time."

The punitive tariff is part of a five-year review process involved in Vietnam's entry into the World Trade Organization.

Washington, June 17 : US President Barack Obama has slammed Fox News for being "entirely devoted to attacking his administration."

Responding to a remark made by CNBC's John Harwood that Obama has gotten an easy ride from the press, the US president called the charge "very hard for him to swallow."

Acknowledging the fact that media coverage has been "generally positive," he took yet another potshot at Fox News.

New Delhi, June 17 : After his split from Demi Moore in 1998, Bruce Willis struggled being alone.

However, life took a bright turn for him when he met new wife Emma Heming, reports The China Daily.

The ''Die Hard'' actor told W magazine: "I went from ''F**k love'' to ''Love is truly the answer.''

"I spent the last 10 years single and, for the most part, unhappy. In a dark place. I never thought that being with someone else was the answer.

"I would say, ''I''m alone, but I''m not lonely.'' But I was just kidding myself.

Jerusalem, June 17 : The chief of Israel''s intelligence agency has expressed fear over Iran's capability to make a nuclear bomb by 2014, which he claims, could have "an existential threat to Israel."

"Iran wants to be like Egypt was in the 1960s and 1970s. There is a lot of cooperation between Iran, North Korea and Syria. The notion of an Iranian nuclear weapon is an existential threat to Israel and has to be removed," the Jerusalem Post quoted Mossad chief Meir Dagan, as saying.

New Delhi, June 17 : Leona Lewis is planning to buy a country home worth one million pounds, it has emerged.

The ''Bleeding Love'' singer - who has been living in Los Angeles - is currently in talks to purchase a converted barn in a village in Hertfordshire, east England, reports The China Daily.

A source told Britain''s The Sun newspaper: "Leona can''t wait to return to the UK full-time and is keen to buy herself a nice country home rather than purchase anywhere in town.