Washington, November 12 : Testing cardiac patients for depression does not prove beneficial, reveals a new study.

Researchers at McGill University, Johns Hopkins University and six other institutions across the globe raised doubt on the American Heart Association''s insistence on the important link between depression and cardiac care.

Bangkok - Shi Han Min, who led the Beijing's effort to clean up its air for the 2008 Olympic Games, on Wednesday won the first Kong Ha Award for excellence in air quality management.

The award, which included a 10,000-dollar purse, was granted to Shi at the Better Air Quality 2008 workshop in Bangkok, which has drawn 900 delegates from the region.

Shi, director of Beijing's Environment Protection Bureau, was credited for introducing many initiatives to clean up the Chinese capital's notorious air pollution for the Olympics which were later institutionalized and replicated in other Chinese cities.

Washington, Nov 12 : President-elect Barack Obama and his family will soon be moving in to the White House, and the kitchen staff there are preparing themselves to provided the First Family with their favourite foods.

The First Family will have the privilege of making changes in and around the presidential mansion, to add their own style to the cuisine, and to the décor while they stay there.

New York, Nov 12 : Controversial comedienne Sandra Bernhard has dismissed earlier reports that she said Sarah Palin would be "gang-raped by my big black brothers" if she enters Manhattan.

"I never said ''''gang-raped'''' and I never used ''''rape,'''' " the New York Daily News quoted Bernhard, as saying.

Bernhard was widely condemned after reportedly making the remark in her opening monologue during a show last month at Washington, D. C.’s Theater J.

Chicago/New Delhi, Nov. 12: The strategic relationship between India and the United States, which was put in place through the US-India civil nuclear cooperation agreement is likely to be enhanced further during the Obama regime.

This is the indication given by US President-elect Barack Obama during a telephone conversation with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday morning, when he described the bilateral strategic relationship is a "very important partnership".

Washington, Nov 12 : An international study has determined that the well-documented worldwide decline in the number of and other pollinators is not, at this stage, limiting global crop yields.

“The research team scored crops on how much they depend on pollinators for maximum production,” said Co-author, CSIRO Entomology’s Dr Saul Cunningham.