Madrid - Spain will seek changes to the Western strategy in Afghanistan after two Spanish soldiers were killed in a suicide attack there, the daily El Pais reported Tuesday.

Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's government will request an end to bombing civilians, improvements in coordination between NATO-led ISAF and US troops, United Nations control over them, support of neighbouring Pakistan and Iran, and measures against corruption in the Afghan government.

London, Nov 11 : A book from the 17th century, which is quite similar to the present-day lad’s grooming magazine, has been discovered.

The book written in the age of Oliver Cromwell by Francis Osborne carries advices about better conduct for young men.

‘Advice to a Son; or Directions For your Better Conduct Through the various and most important Encounters of this Life’ was well received for its literary mix of pragmatism and cynicism, and was considered sound common sense by many of Osborne''s educated male readers.

Milan - It may look like a case of lacking gratitude or just the way things work in football, but a possible transfer of Julio Ricardo Cruz from Inter Milan is something his many fans will have a hard time to digest.

Cruz' 75 goals from 181 games played in five seasons seem to mean nothing to new coach Jose Mourinho, who lately slammed the 34-year-old striker for alleged indiscipline on the pitch and appears set on not renewing the player's contract when it expires next June.

London, Nov 11 : A new study has found that just one response for every 12.5 million spam mails sent can turn spammers into millionaires.

Researchers from University of California, San Diego and Berkeley hijacked a working spam network and uncovered some of the economics of being a junk mailer.

The scientists broke into the Storm network that uses hijacked home computers as relays for junk mail.

Baghdad - Iraq on Tuesday expressed its dissatisfaction with the US reply to amendments of the security agreement that will regulate the future of US forces in Iraq, according to an Iraqi government spokesperson.

Ali al-Dabbagh said that the US reply to the amendments "is not satisfactory" and that "Iraqis are not going to accept" it.

"The US reply to the Iraqi amendments is not satisfactory and there are many points that still need clarification and amendment," al-Dabbagh said in an interview with the London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper.

Washington, Nov 11 : A new study led by an Indian origin scientist has found that the unique properties of a new material can be used to create new devices that can be implanted into the human body– including blood glucose sensors for diabetics and artificial hemo-dialysis membranes that can scrub impurities from the blood.

The breakthrough by the researchers at North Carolina State University may pave the way for new dialysis devices and a host of other revolutionary medical implants.