At least 19 people, including 10 children, were killed in a fire cracker explosion in Bharatpur district of Rajasthan.

London, Oct 23: Russian archeologists have claimed that the Russians were the first people on the planet to cultivate land, breed cattle and make earthenware.

Russian tribes inhabited Khabarovsk Region in the Stone Age, the archeologists said after finding a 15,000-year-old hunters’ settlement on the bank of the Amur River in Khabarovsk.

According to a report in Press TV, stone axes, knives, scrapers, arrowheads and baked earthenware have so far been unearthed in the area.

“It was the first earthenware on the globe, and though it was primitive, with plain decoration, and poorly baked, yet it was a significant landmark in the history of mankind,” said Andrei Malyavin, an employee of Khabarovsk Archeology Museum.

According to an Ovum report entitled “Market Share: 2Q08 Asia-Pacific ON”, ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”), a global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, has recorded another sterling industry sales growth in the segment of Optical Networking (ON) during the second quarter.

The report shows that ZTE has the highest ON annual sales growth in Asia Pacific, with an 8% market share, the 4th highest in the region.

London, Oct 23 : Scientists have now made it possible to store information inside the nucleus of an atom—a breakthrough that has paved the way for a quantum computer which could crack problems unsolvable by current technology.

Touted as the holy grail of computing, quantum computing involves individual piece of information, or ‘bit’, which can have more than one value at once, as opposed to current technology which is limited to either 1s or 0s. This can dramatically escalate the processing power and thus widens the scope of what computers can do.

London, Oct 23 : Scientists at Newcastle University have now unravelled the mechanism by which the fundamental building blocks of life, proteins and metals, bind together.

Lead author Professor Nigel Robinson has revealed the mechanism, which ensures that the right metal goes to the right protein.

Life, microbe, plant or human, are all made up of atoms, which include metals such as copper and manganese which act as catalysts in proteins, which in turn around the metal atoms.

Melbourne, Oct 23: A daily tipple can keep you happy, according to a new study.

Australian Unity Wellbeing Index has confirmed that those who drink one or two glasses of alcohol every day are the happiest people.

It found that happiness levels declined for older drinkers who had more than three drinks in a session, but not for those aged 18 to 26.

It also showed that those who exercise up to three times a week also were relatively happy but those who never drank were among the most miserable, recording "below normal wellbeing".