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Washington, Sep 23 : New reports suggest that Apple may scrap the 10 dollars-a-month subscription streaming music service 'Beats Music'.

The service could be scrapped entirely, or the service could continue with its name slowly phased out, CNET reported.

An Apple spokesman said that the report that Apple will be scrapping the Beats streaming music service is 'absolutely not true.'

Speculations also signal that Apple might change the name and take on the much more widespread iTunes tag and integrate it with Apple's overall iTunes package.

Washington, Sep 23 : Apple's latest additions to the iPhone family, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus made a record sale of more than 10 million in just three days since the launch.

The record sale is one million more than combined nine million sales of the iPhone 5C and 5S last year.

However, Apple CEO Tim Cook believes that they could have sold many more iPhone with greater supply, and the sales for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus exceeded their expectations for the launch weekend.

Cook added that they are working hard to meet the demands and fill orders as quickly as possible.

Indore - With a 25-year-old woman testing positive for swine flu, the number of those infected with the H1N1 virus in the district this year has risen to five, a senior health official said today.

The woman, a resident of Manikbagh area here, was admitted to a private hospital on September 18 after she complained of cold and cough, Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP) district unit in-charge Dr G L Sodhi said.

Her swab samples were sent to a lab where it tested positive for swine flu, he said.

The woman's condition continues to remain serious, he said.

New Delhi: Syndicate Bank's has terminated the service of its suspended CMD S K Jain who has been accused in a bribery case.

Jain and a co-accoused were yesterday remanded in CBI custody till today by a special court after the agency said they were required to be confronted with alleged middleman Purushottam Totlani.

S K Jain, CMD of Prakash Industries Limited Ved Prakash Agarwal, Bhushan Steel Ltd Vice Chairman and Managing Director Neeraj Singal, middle-man Vineet Godha and other accused were arrested by CBI in connection with the case.

Washington, Sept 23 - A new study has revealed that Arctic Sea ice helps remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and its depletion would result in an increase of atmospheric concentration of the gas.

Dorte Haubjerg Sogaard, PhD Fellow, Nordic Center for Earth Evolution, University of Southern Denmark and the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk, said that if their results are representative, then sea ice plays a greater role than expected, and we should take this into account in future global CO2 budgets.

Washington, Sept 23 - A new study of snail shells has revealed that the high-rise Tibetan Plateau is much lower than it used to be.

Scientists have revealed that at least one large area in southwest Tibet, the plateau's Zhada Basin, actually lost 3,000 to 5,000 feet of elevation sometime in the Pliocene epoch.

Researcher Katharine Huntington, a UW associate professor of Earth and space sciences, said that the basin is really high right now but they think it was a kilometer or more higher just 3 million to 4 million years ago.