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London, June 17 : Popular cholesterol lowering drugs such as Lipitor (atorvastatin) fail to lower the risk of pneumonia in older adults, finds a new study.

"Prior research based on automated claims data had raised some hope—and maybe some hype—for statins as a way to prevent and treat infections including pneumonia," said Dr Sascha Dublin, a physician at Group Health and assistant investigator at Group Health Center for Health Studies.

Washington, June 17 : Scientists at the University of Central Florida say that they have created nanoparticles that may someday come to be used for targeting and destroying tumours, marking the end of toxic chemotherapies.

J. Manuel Perez, an assistant professor at the university, has revealed that the nanoparticles designed by his team carry Taxol, one of the most widely used chemotherapeutic drugs.

Washington, June 17 : Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) researchers have challenged the age-old belief that living near a fast food outlet increases weight-related problems in kids, and that living near fresh fruit- and vegetable-selling supermarkets lowers weight.

The researchers compared children''s weights over time before and after one of these food purveyors moved near the kids’ residences.

London, June 17 : Amateur Indian-origin cricketer Abhijit Kale emulated legendary West Indian Gary Sobers this weekend by hitting six sixes in an over.

He stunned his teammates by taking 39 runs of one nine-ball over of bowler Damion Grosscel in a weekend league. Thirty-six of those runs were hits out of the ground, reports The Mirror.

Abhijit, 34, from Mumbai, was playing for Kent League Division 3 team Linden Park against Catford Wanderers.

London, June 17 : Prince Harry''s former girlfriend Caroline Flack reportedly got catty about his old flame Chelsy Davy, saying “she''s not even that pretty."

The royal recently ended his fling with TV presenter Caroline after telling friends he was desperate to get back with Chelsy, according to reports.

Carline reportedly lost her temper after reading the story covering their split and made the comment during a boozy evening out with friends in North London.

Bangkok (Thailand), June 17 : The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eeelam (LTTE), the rebel group recently defeated by the Sri Lankan military, have announced the formation of a "provisional transnational government" to pursue an autonomous homeland for the Tamil population.

According to the BBC, Selvarasa Pathmanathan, one of the few Tamil Tiger leaders to survive the military operation, released a statement from an unknown location announcing the formation of the transnational government.