Islamabad, Mar 19 : The United Nations has expressed its concerns about the well being of its abducted official John Solecki, and is trying hard for his release at the earliest, an official of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said.

Solecki, a UN refugee agency (UNHCR) official in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, was kidnapped at gunpoint in Quetta on February 2.

Islamabad, Mar. 19 : Mehar Khalil, the driver of the bus carrying the Sri Lankan cricket players which was attacked, has been given a 10 day family visa for Sri Lanka.

Following his heroic effort to save the Sri Lankan cricket team from the terror attack, Lankan players showered praise on Khalil and invited him to visit their country.

Washington, Mar 19 : Two of the most commonly prescribed anti-seizure medications may increase the risk of cardiovascular problems, such as high cholesterol levels and C-reactive protein, according to a study.

The discovery of this repercussion in the treatment of epilepsy may help doctors offer better care of patients with seizures by prescribing different anti-seizure medications that do not harm cardiovascular health.

London, Mar 19 : Dungeon dad Josef Fritzl will be questioned over a string of unsolved murders, as police now want to uncover the details of his evil crimes in the last forty years.

The Austrian engineer is being suspected for at least four murders as well as missing persons'' cases stretching back more than four decades, in which three of the victims were teenage girls.

One of the most striking cases is of Martina Posch, who was 17 when she was raped and strangled on the shores of the Mondsee lake in November 1986.

The Sensex remained positive on continued buying activity across key frontline stocks.

Positive opening of European markets also backed the overall market reaction.

For the week ended March 7, 2009, India`s benchmark wholesale price index (WPI), inflation declined sharply to 0.44% as against 2.43% during the last week.

It was at 7.78% during the corresponding week the previous year.

Washington, March 19 : The panoramic camera on NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity has caught a first glimpse on the horizon of the uplifted rim of the big crater that has been Opportunity’s long-term destination for six months.

Opportunity’s twin, Spirit, also has a challenging destination, and last week switched to a different route for making progress.