Washington, Nov 9 : Wondering how to encourage your child to eat healthy? Well, the answer lies in a new study from University of Minnesota.

Researchers have found that elementary school students will eat more whole grains when healthier bread products are gradually introduced into their school lunches.

Whole grain breads are strongly recommended as part of a healthy diet, but children and pre-teens are often reluctant to eat them. Putting whole grains into school lunches might just encourage students to eat have a healthy diet.

Guwahati, Nov. 9 : The Government of Assam has decided to recruit 4,000 more police personnel in all ranks to augment the strength of the force to over 65,000 within the year as part of a counter-terrorism plan.

Revealing this here, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said this augmentation of the police force was necessary as in the last eight years; the state had experienced 605 bomb blasts, each of which had caused considerable devastation to life and property. He also added that police and other security personnel had recovered or diffused over

Kuala Lumpur  - A self-employed electrician was killed while his sibling and an employee were seriously injured when their illegally modified natural gas vehicle (NGV) exploded, a news report said Sunday.

Mohamad Hilmi Ishak, 25, was believed to have stopped at a local petrol station in the southern state of Malacca to refuel, while his brother, Rosli Ishak, 30, and their worker, Razali Zin, 31, were waiting in vehicle, when the explosion occurred on Friday, the News Straits Times newspaper said.

Investigations revealed that Hilmi had modified a cooking gas cylinder into a natural gas kit for their van and placed the tank beneath the driver's seat, covered by a sheet of canvas.

Singapore  - Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the President-elect Barack Obama win in Tuesday's elections did not mean race was no longer an issue in the United States.

"People were tired, they wanted something different, and Mr Obama represented something different," the Sunday Times quoted Lee as saying.

Obama's victory marked a "historic change" for America, he said during a community dialogue on Saturday.

Port-au-Prince  - As rescue workers continued to dig through the rubble, the number of dead early Sunday had reached 84 in the collapse of a Hatian school as special rescue teams from the US and France rushed to help dig out survivors from the rubble.

An estimated 200 more children and possibly teachers are believed to still be buried in the rubble of the Petion Ville suburb of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, Radio Metropole reported Saturday.

The school collapsed Friday morning as an estimated 700 students were in the building.

Rescue workers had contact with some of the victims in the rubble and were able to talk to and supply them with water.

Wellington  - The New Zealand parliament will have a record six Asian members - including the first ethnic Korean and Sikh - following Saturday's election.

Korean-born television presenter Melissa Lee, 42, and former New Delhi businessman Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi will join Pansy Wong, who was New Zealand's first Asian Member of Parliament when she was elected in 1996, in the newly-elected National Party government ranks.