London, Nov 10 : Scientists have used satellite tagging to reveal that the male and female species of the Great white shark travel together to spend six months at an isolated spot, an act which may be linked to courtship.
According to a report in the Telegraph, the sharks travel huge distances and mysteriously spend up to six months gathered at an isolated spot in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii.
The stretch of ocean the sharks make for, from both California and Mexico, is not a particularly rich feeding ground, but it may act as a “singles bar”, where they can find a mate.
Iligan City, Philippines - Philippine troops clashed Monday with Muslim separatist rebels who were allegedly planning to attack towns in a southern province, an army commander said.
The firefight erupted in the town of Wao in Lanao del Sur province, 810 kilometres south of Manila, after intelligence reports warned of a possible attack by up to 200 Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels.
Colonel Nicanor Dolojan, an army brigade commander, said government troops launched "clearing operations" against MILF rebels who were "threatening to attack military installations and municipalities of Wao and nearby Bumbaran."
Khar (Pakistan), Nov 10 : At least eight members of a banned terrorist outfit - Amar Bil Maroof - were killed and three injured in Pakistan’s Khar Agency when NATO jets bombed Tirah Valley in Khyber Agency last evening.
The NATO jets targeted hideouts of the banned outfit in the Moga area near Torkham. Amar Bil Maroof spokesman Munsif Afridi confirmed that those who had died were members of his group, the Daily Times quoted a TV report as saying.
He said that 10 Afghan soldiers had been killed in a gunbattle with his group at the Torkham border earlier in the day.
Washington, Nov. 10: U. S. President George W. Bush had a dollop of sanitizer applied to his right hand by a White House staff member after shaking hands with Barack Obama for the first time four years ago.
Recalling the event in his best-selling autobiography “ The Audacity of Hope”, Obama says he and other newly elected members of the Senate were invited to the White House for a breakfast meeting with Bush.
London, Nov 10: Here’s another addition to the list of longest names, with a Brit man claiming to have 198 letters in his name.
Derek McQueen from Kelty in Fife revealed that his father chose to name him after Rangers Football club’s entire league winning squad from 1974/75.
His birth certificate name reads: Derek Parlane Stein Jackson Hunter McCloy Kennedy Scott Forsyth Henderson Boyd Robertson O’Hara Johnstone Miller Dawson Armour McDougall McLean McKean Fyfe McDonald Jardine Young Morris Denny Hamilton Watson Greig Wallace McQueen.
“I don’t imagine many people will have longer names than myself. When folk ask me I can’t even remember them all — even after all this time,” British tabloid The Sun quoted Derek as saying.
Qatar, Nov 10 : Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has arrived in Qatar capital Doha on a two-day official visit.
Washington, Nov. 10: U. S. President George W. Bush had a dollop of sanitizer applied to his right hand by a White House staff member after shaking hands with Barack Obama for the first time four years ago.
