New York, Dec. 11: Desperate for sales of their cars in the wake of the Wall Street meltdown, car dealerships in the Apple City, are offering huge and deep discounts.

According to the New York Daily News, the dealerships have come up with options like "Buy one get one free!", and the deal is reported as being offered across the country.

"We''ve heard about the buy-one-get-one-free ads in Florida, Ohio and Texas," the NYDN quoted Richard Arca, a senior analyst at Edmunds. com, as saying.

"The first thing people think when they come in is ''It''s a fake ad. It''s a normal car dealer ad. It''s a gimmick.'' But it''s not," said Ali Ahmed, a Dodge dealer in Miami who offered a buy-one-get-one-free deal.

Washington, Dec 11: British singer Leona Lewis has walked away with the title of America''s Top New Artist of 2008, following the success of her hit single `Bleeding Love'.

The 23-year-old `X factor' winner was named the `Top New Artist of 2008' by

Billboard magazine.

"I''m just going day by day and just enjoying everything. I got a fantastic opportunity to come here and do this and so far it''s been going really well," Contactmusic quoted her as saying.

Washington, Dec 11 : Scientists have found the universe's faintest stars, in the form of a pair of twin "brown dwarfs", each just a millionth as bright as the sun.

These stars have been spotted by a team led by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) physicist Adam Burgasser.

"These brown dwarfs are the lowest power stellar light bulbs in the sky that we know of," said Burgasser.

According to Burgasser, "In this regime (of faintness), we expect to find the bulk of the brown dwarfs that have formed over the lifetime of the galaxy."

Washington, December 11: University of Florida researchers may have moved a step closer to developing effective treatments for age-related memory loss, as they have found out why some brain cells necessary for healthy memory can survive old age or disease, while similar other cells die.

Describing their work in the journal Cell Death & Differentiation, the researchers revealed that they analysed two neighbouring regions of a tiny brain structure called the hippocampus, which is known to be central to the formation of memories, in rats of varying ages.

New Delhi, Dec. 11 : Addressing Parliament for the first time since becoming the Union Home Minister, P. Chidambaram on Thursday said that India has enough proof that the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attack were from Pakistan.

"Investigations are still going on, and going by the results of it, all fingers point towards our neighbour," Chidambaram told the Lok Sabha.

London, Dec 11: Hollywood actress Paris Hilton recently declared that she is a living example of the fact that blondes are not stupid.