Washington, October 29: A novel influenza vaccine, which is delivered nasally, has been found to trigger robust immunity in ferrets, say researchers.

Experts at NanoBio Corporation have revealed that the immune responses elicited by the new vaccine were more than 20 times higher than those generated by two injections of the currently approved vaccines.

The researchers also revealed that their intranasal vaccine used only half the standard antigen dose to produce that effect.

According to them, their nasal vaccines exert adjuvant activity without the need for pro-inflammatory materials, toxins or cytokines.

Beijing - Richer, developed nations should lead the effort against climate change and help developing nations reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, China said Wednesday.

Longtime industrialized nations have a duty because of their historic responsibility for the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to provide cooperation, financing and technology transfers to poorer, developing countries, China's cabinet said in the White Book, their foremost policy document on climate change.

Badlapur, Oct 29: A man from Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh was beaten to death on a train in Badlapur in Maharashtra, after the miscreants identified him as a "North Indian".

Dharamdev Rai, 25, and his three friends were attacked by eight-ten people when they were on their way to Kurla.

One of them claimed that they were attacked by a group of Marathi-speaking youths who abused them for taking up jobs in Mumbai.

Rai was admitted to the Dubey Hospital, but succumbed to his injuries.

Super Talent Technology, a top maker of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, has made announcement about the launching of a limited edition 18-carat solid gold USB drive, named Pico-C in the market.

The newly USB drive, which comes with a serialized Certificate of Authenticity, is water resistant, fast, and supports up to 200X (30MB/sec) data transfer speeds.

The Pico-C has become the hallmark of style and quality in USB drives.

Manila - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday the worsening financial crisis could seriously impact on the world body's vital goals and programmes.

Ban expressed concern that the implementation of key programmes such as the Millennium Development Goals might be hampered as developed and developing countries battle the global crisis.

"I'm deeply concerned about the possible impact (of) this financial crisis (on) the overall United Nations goals and agenda," Ban told a press briefing after addressing the 2nd Global Forum on Migration and Development in Manila.

London, Oct 29 : New British Defence Secretary John Hutton has said that the Iraq war would be over by 2010 when all of UK’s forces would be substantially withdrawn from Basra. A rapid drop in troop numbers is also expected during early 2009.

Hutton stressed that withdrawal of troops would remain subject to conditions on the ground, but added he was “optimistic”.

Even as more than five years after the invasion, there are still around 4000 British soldiers stationed on the outskirts of the southern Iraqi city.