Washington, Oct 22 : A new research by scientists has determined that hurricanes and typhoons, which are normally seen as looming threats from global warming, are actually helping to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere.

According to a report in Discovery News, the research was done by Robert Hilton of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and a team of researchers.

Each year humans emit approximately 7.2 billion tons of the greenhouse gas, trapping vast amounts of heat in the air and oceans.

Washington, Oct 22 : Tina Fey believes that Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin looks five times better than her.

London, October 22: Swiss researchers have shown that computer criminals can misuse the electromagnetic signals produced by when buttons on a keyboard to eavesdrop on what a user types.

Martin Vuagnoux and Sylvain Pasini, doctoral students from the Security and Cryptography Laboratory at the Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), have been successful in analysing the signals produced by keystrokes to reproduce what a target typed.

London, Oct 22 : An astonishing video footage of a ''flying saucer'' spotted in Turkey is being considered the "most important images of a UFO ever filmed".

The shots were captured earlier this year by 42-year-old night guard Yalcin Yalman in a compound in Turkey.

Almost two-and-a-half hours of footage features a variety of objects ranging from incredible flying saucer-type ''craft'' to clustering orb-like lights hovering in the night sky.

Yalman and a number of residents claim that the UFOs were spotted over a four month period between May and September near the compound in Istanbul.

Kabul - US-led coalition forces mistakenly bombed an Afghan national army position in eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing nine soldiers and wounding three others, officials said.

The incident took place in Sayedkhail district of the south-eastern province of Khost when a coalition convoy was returning from an operation, the US military said in a statement.

"Initial reports from troops on the ground indicate that this may be a case of mistaken identity on both sides," the statement said.

Washington, Oct 22 : In a collaborative study, UCLA and Dutch researchers have identified three new candidate genes for schizophrenia that may contribute to a better understanding of how the disease evolves.

For the study, Roel A. Ophoff, an assistant professor with the Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, and his colleagues examined the genetic makeup of 54 Dutch patients diagnosed with deficit schizophrenia, a particularly severe form of the disease that is both chronic and debilitating.

Specifically, they looked at a number of large but rare deletions and duplications in the genome of the patients, known as copy number variants, or CNVs.