London, Oct 25 : Baghdad is unlikely to sign an agreement with Washington on the future of US forces in Iraq by a critical year-end deadline, Prime Minister of country’s largely autonomous Kurdish north has said.

New Delhi, Oct 25 : Chinese nuclear physicists have developed a new treatment for cancer that uses heavy ion beams to kill malignant tumours more than 2.1 cm below the skin''s surface.

Zhan Wenlong, the leading nuclear physicist in the country, has claimed that heavy ion beams score over light ion beams, such as gamma rays and X-rays used in traditional radiotherapies.

High ion beams can accurately moderate the amount of radiation and minimize the damage done to healthy cells, reports China Daily.

Washington, Oct 25 : Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher or Joe the Plumber, who shot into the limelight for questioning Barack Obama’s tax policies during a rally in Ohio, has said that he would like to ru

Washington, October 25 : Mena Suvari, best known for her acclaimed performances in ‘American Beauty’ and ‘American Pie’, has admitted that she loves ‘a good scandal’ in a script.

The 29-year-old, who played her last hair-raising role in ‘American Beauty’ a decade ago, revealed that she couldn’t resist a well-scripted scandal, and was most impressed when she was offered with one in her latest movie ‘Sex Lies And Sin City: The Ted Binion Scandal.’

"Well, the script came to me, I read it and it really appealed to me,” CBS News quoted her as telling them.

London, Oct 25 : Once touted as the Prince''s new Poundbury, Prince Charles’ dream "Urban Village in St Austell" has now turned into a living hell for residents annoyed by drunk teenagers.

Urban Village, envisioned and partially designed by Prince Charles, was designed to be Britain''s first village in a town setting.

The 147-property village boasts its faux Victorian houses, man-made pond, and stream.

It promised streets "designed for people rather than cars", and homeowners were encouraged to start their own cottage businesses and create a real community, which was quickly nicknamed "Charlietown Two".

Islamabad, Oct 25 : Pakistan was fully committed to the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project, which was expected to meet substantial portion of “our energy needs”, said the country’s Law Minister Farooq Naek.

He said this while speaking in the Senate here last evening.