The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) has issued warning regarding sinusitis. Doctors say that that if stuffy nose, headache and other symptoms of cold persist for more than two weeks, it may be sinusitis.

Sinusitis is generally initiated by a viral common cold affecting the nose. The viruses can spread to the sinuses and pave way for a secondary bacterial infection and subsequent acute sinusitis. Its major symptoms are a green or gray nasal discharge, foul tasting post-nasal drip, facial pain/pressure or light fever.

Tel Aviv - Israeli ground

Tel Aviv/Gaza City  - Israeli ground troops began moving into the north and east of the Gaza Strip on Saturday evening, Palestinian witnesses said.

Brussels  - European Union representatives are to hold an emergency meeting on the Russian-Ukrainian gas row on Monday and could send an investigating team to the two countries within days, officials in Brussels confirmed Saturday.

The permanent ambassadors of the EU's 27 member states - their highest representatives in Brussels - are to hold an extraordinary meeting on Monday to discuss Russia's shut-off of gas to Ukraine, EU officials told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Tel Aviv  - Protests continued around the world against the ongoing Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, including in Israel where tens of thousands of Israeli Arabs demonstrated in the northern town of Sakhnin.

In what media reports said was the largest demonstration of Arabs in Israel in years, the Sakhnin protest started with a minute of silence for the victims of the attacks which have continued for an eighth day.

Among the demonstrators were numerous Arab members of the Israeli Knesset (parliament).

Kampala  - Uganda warned Saturday it may withdraw its troops from peacekeeping duties in Somalia as Islamist forces appeared to begin seizing territory left unguarded by departing Ethiopian forces.

"Uganda is going to consider withdrawing its troops from Somalia and it will do so as soon as possible after weighing the risks on the ground," Deputy Foreign Minister Henry Okello Oryem told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Ethiopian forces invaded Somalia in late 2006 to help kick out hardline regime the Islamic Courts Union (ICU).