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Managua - Exiled Amazon indigenous leader Alberto Pizango arrived in Nicaragua after being allowed to leave Peru to avoid prosecution on charges of inciting violent protests that left 34 people dead.

Pizango made brief statements to Nicaraguan state-run media saying he lamented the violence, but blamed Peruvian President Alan Garcia and demanded respect for indigenous land and water rights.

Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has given his nod to 150 educational institutions, which includes medical, dental, ayurveda and yunani colleges.

Azad cleared the permissions, which had been pending from last several years, within a week’s time after taking over the charge of the ministry.

According to reports, these pending cases comes after several public complaints that unnecessary postponement in processing cases with regard to authorization of different medical educational institutions were threatening future of students aiming to get admission in these colleges.

Berlin - Adventurous shirt colours even in the office are completely acceptable, a Berlin-based men's fashion expert says.

Bernhard Roetzel said although white and light blue are the classic colours in business dress shirts, pink is OK and can look very well on older men with thick hair that has grey mixed in.

Lilac is also especially popular this season and can look well, but not on everyone.

Wiesbaden, Germany  Everyone knows that smoking is unhealthy for you. Nonetheless, reports the German Centre for Addiction Questions, one in every four German adults continues to smoke.

Quitting is easier said than done. The problems are often underestimated, says Rainer Mathias Dunkel, a doctor of psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy in Wiesbaden. The danger of relapse is very high.

Men aged 35 to 45 are the most likely to smoke. In general, people have their first puff at age 13. But the number of young smokers is on the decline.

"In 2001, about a third of all 12 to 17-year-olds smoked. In 2008, it was 15 per cent," says Marita Volker-Albert of the German Federal Centre for Health Questions in Cologne.

Berlin  - Cheap running shoes are clearly worse than expensive ones, according to a German consumer product testing organization that tested 19 different types of running shoes.

Only two of seven inexpensive shoes were recommended, the organization said in its magazine, published in Berlin. The worst were discount supermarket shoes, which rubbed the foot wrong, caused knee pain and became damaged in a durability test.

Munich  - At least two bikinis, a handful of party outfits and something casual for a trip into the city. The clothes needed on vacation could fill an entire closet.

But all this has to go in only one suitcase that ideally should weigh no more than 20 kilograms? And there's never a guarantee that the weather will be nice, making additional clothing necessary. The way out of this dilemma is to take along no more than two basis colours.