United Nations, Dec. 17 : US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that the proscribed Jamaat-ud-Dawa remains a terror outfit in the eyes of the international community, notwithstanding its protestations of being a charity organization.

Talking to reporters at the UN headquarters in New York, Rice said: "Pakistan is going to have to untangle the difficult circumstances the Jamaat offers -they are - because I understand there are so called charitable activities. But we learned - the United States learned the hard way - that sometimes these are too intertwined with organizations that have terrorists ties and have just been designated here."

New York, Dec. 17 : The Taliban and Al Qaeda committee of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is mulling over a proposal to put more Pakistanis on the international terror list.

A new research shows that the immune system kill bacteria more actively at night as compare to the day time. Shirasu-Hiza and her colleague David Schneider conducted the study on laboratory model organism, Drosophila melanogaster and found that the specific immune response known as phagocytosis oscillates with the body's circadian rhythm.

Study on fruit flies revealed that those sick with bacterial infections lost their healthy circadian rhythms, which paces the human body's healthy eating and sleeping cycle.

London, Dec 17 : English footballer David Beckham has left a number of people curious after he appeared in an Armani underwear ad, including AC Milan striker Marco Borriello.

Kolkata, Dec. 17 : The Calcutta High Court has rejected the bail plea of industrialist Ashok Todi, the main accused in the Rizwanur Rahman murder case.

Justice B P Sengupta rejected the bail application on Wednesday.

Earlier, a bench comprising of Justice Amit Talukdar and Justice P S Banerjee differed on whether to grant bail to Todi. The matter was then assigned to Justice Sengupta by Chief Justice S S Nijjar.

Justice Sengupta, in his judgement said: "As Ashok Todi is the main accused and there is a strong prima facie case against him, bail can not be granted at this stage."

According to two major scientific studies, seven new genetic variants make people overweight. All new identified genes are linked to appetite control and obesity. An Icelandic biotechnology company, deCode Genetics, and an international academic consortium conducted the study and published their findings yesterday in the journal Nature Genetics.