Tokyo  - Japanese electronics giant Toshiba Corp Friday revised its earnings estimate for the previous business year, now predicting a greater net loss due to a price slump in the semiconductor market and tax credit costs.

Toshiba now predicts a net loss of 350 billion yen (3.5 billion dollars) for the business year that ended March 31, up from a previous 280-billon-yen loss estimate. Last business year, Toshiba reported net profits of 127.4 billion yen.

Once again, a civic-run hospital got dragged in a baby-swap storm.

Mohammed Sartaj, a fruit vendor, filed a complaint against the doctors at a maternity home run by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in Oshiwara, for swapping his baby boy for a girl, minutes after the delivery on Wednesday evening.

Sartaj’s wife Reshma Bano also said that soon after giving birth to her baby, she was informed by the doctors that it was a boy.

Bano was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday afternoon and delivered the child around 6 pm.

Washington, April 17 : Scorpion venom has shown some promise to slow the spread of brain cancer, say researchers.

Scientists at the University of Washington have revealed that combining nanoparticles with chlorotoxin, a small peptide isolated from scorpion venom, they could halt the spread of cancerous cells by 98 per cent, compared to 45 per cent for the scorpion venom alone.

Baton Rouge (Louisiana, US), Apr. 17 : Louisiana's Indian American Governor Bobby Jindal has suggested that former Vice President Dick Cheney should tone down his criticism of President Barack Obama.

Cheney has repeatedly criticized Obama's national security policy, saying recently on CNN's "State of the Union" that Obama's decisions "raise the risk to the American people of another attack."

New Delhi, Apr 17 : Madonna is so depressed after the rejection of her plea to adopt four-year-old Mercy James from Malawi that she has stopped eating and exercising.

According to reports, the singer's friends are worried over her condition following the adoption-rejection by a Malawi court, reports The China Daily.

London, April 17 : Queen Elizabeth II enjoys more trust than any other public figure in Britain, according to a new survey.

The YouGov poll, commissioned by insurance firm Hiscox, had carried the survey to find who do people trust most during the credit crunch.

And the 82-year-old Royal emerged the top favourite with 53 per cent of people voting in her favour, reports the Daily Express.

The Monarch piped British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who received 12 per cent votes, in the poll of 2,000 people.