Washington, Nov 12: Acknowledging fierce pressure from human rights groups to close the controversial high-security Guantanamo Bay prison, US President-elect Barack Obama is learnt to be considering legal formalities on how to carry out the process.

But, according to his aides, he faces a legal minefield in deciding where to house inmates and how to try them.

Any decision to close Guantanamo, which opened in 2002 and has scarred America''s image abroad, will involve working out where to put inmates and require a new kind of legal structure to prosecute them.

Dhabi, Nov. 12, 2008 -- A major UAE English daily today commented on the Israeli move to built a so-called "museum of tolerance" over an ancient Muslim cemetery in West Jerusalem. The paper said the move was another clear manifestation of Tel Aviv's determination to create irreversible facts on the ground that would obliterate all symbols of Muslim presence in Palestine prior to the creation of the Jewish entity.

London, Nov 12: An antioxidant

Washington, Nov 12: Cambridge scientists have made a major breakthrough in rheumatoid arthritis. They have genetically engineered a drug-inducible form of Foxp3 gene, which when activated can prevent the autoimmune reaction characterised by the disease.

Rheumatoid arthritis is a painful, inflammatory type of arthritis that occurs when the body''s immune system attacks itself.

And the new strategy developed by scientists at the Medical Research Council''s Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, may open the door for therapy development for rheumatoid arthritis.

Generally, immune cells develop to recognise foreign material – antigens; including bacteria - so that they can activate a response against them.

London, Nov 12: One of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s bodyguards triggered a security scare at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport when he accidentally fired a shot.

Blair was in Israel for peace talks and was rushed on to his plane amid the panic. The weapon went off as it was being unloaded ahead of the flight.

“There was an incident this morning at Ben Gurion Airport when one of Blair’s bodyguards’ guns accidentally went off,” police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.

London, Nov 12: A Royal Commission report in UK has raised concern that just like asbestos, nanomaterials may turn out to be fatally dangerous for humans in the future.

The report called for extensive safety checks to be implemented, or else, the use of nanomaterials may actually kill people in the future.

The experts, analysing the effects of the technology, fear that when nanomaterials escape into the environment they can damage people and wildlife.

However, it may be too late before the effects become visible.

Already, general usage materials such as asbestos, leaded petrol, CFCs and cigarettes, were introduced without giving an eye to the potential damage.