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Obama reacted like a President during financial crisis: Bill Clinton

Former President Bill ClintonWashington, Oct 31: Former President Bill Clinton said at a rally that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama during the financial meltdown acted like “what a president does in a crisis.”

“He said, ‘Tell me what the right thing to do is. What’s the right thing for America? Don’t tell me what’s popular. You tell me what’s right – I’ll figure out how to sell it,’” Clinton said.

Clinton said when the crisis broke, Obama called his own advisers as well as those of the former two-term president, Bill Clinton, Warren Buffet and others.

Adjusting clocks to summer time raises heart attack risk

Adjusting clocks to summer time raises heart attack riskWashington, Oct 31: Risk of heart attack increases with adjusting clocks in summers while turning the clock back during autumn reduces the danger slightly, shows a new Swedish study.

Scientists at Karolinska Institutet have examined how the incidence of myocardial infarction in Sweden has changed with the summer and winter clock-shifts since 1987.

The researchers found that adjusting the clocks to summertime on the last Sunday in March increases the risk of myocardial infarction in the following week, because of a lack of sleep during the time.

Early peanut consumption may keep allergy at bay

Early peanut consumption may keep allergy at bayWashington, Oct 31: Kids who avoid peanut in infancy and early childhood are 10 times as likely to develop peanut allergy as those who are exposed to the groundnut, according to a new study.

The study has been published in the November issue of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

To reach the conclusion, researchers measured the incidence of peanut allergy in 8,600 Jewish school-age children in the United Kingdom and Israel.

They compared these results with data on peanut consumption collected from mothers of infants age 4 to 24 months.

Indian shares soar on rate cut hopes

Indian shares soar on rate cut hopesNew Delhi - Indian equities soared over 5 per cent on Friday tailing positive cues from global markets after rate cuts in the United States and Japan.

The 30-share Sensex of the Bombay Stock Exchange was trading at 9,651.12 around noon, about 6.71 per cent above its previous close.

The broader 50-share Nifty of the National Stock Exchange also showed strong positive signals, trading 5.35 per cent up at 2,841.30.

Indian share markets opened Friday after being closed the previous day for a festival holiday.

Embattled Thai premier off to Laos, Vietnam, New Delhi

Thai Prime Minister Somchai WongsawatBangkok - Embattled Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat has tentative plans to visit Laos, Vietnam, India and Peru next month, Foreign Affairs Ministry sources said Friday as he faces demonstrations at home that are seeking his ouster.

Somchai, who has been premier since September 25, is to visit Vientiane, Laos, for a day-trip that is to begin Monday, said deputy ministry spokesman Thani Thongpakdi.

Bones, driver’s license, shoes found near Steve Fossett's crash site

London, Oct 31: Two bones and a driver's license with Steve Fossett''s name have been found near the crash site of missing adventurer Steve Fossett's plane in California's rugged Sierra Nevada mountains.

The team also found the aviator's tennis shoes as well as credit cards, authorities have confirmed.

The finding was made on October 29 about half a mile east of the crash site, near the town of Mammoth Lakes.

The remains have been sent for tests to a Department of Justice laboratory.

The shoes and driver's licence had animal bite marks on them, said Madera Country Sheriff John Anderson.

"This reinforces our theory that animals dragged him away," Times Online quoted him, as saying.

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