Islamabad, Nov 7 : Pakistan has said that it would work closely with the next US administration to strengthen bilateral relations.

A statement issued by Pakistan Foreign Office said that the two countries had long enjoyed a strategic and friendly partnership, and that the bilateral relationship would deepen with Barack Obama heading US administration.

Washington, Nov 7: The stress of campaigning has left U. S. President-elect Barack Obama looking older than his actual age, say reports.

A website, which runs a program called Realage. com, reckoned that Obama, who is 47 years and 3 months old, is actually 49 years and 8 months old in "true age".

Obama, who has been campaigning for two years, has been leading a stressful life, which has left him with crow''s feet and smile lines that belie his age.

Islamabad, Nov 7: A leading human rights organization in Pakistan – the Defence of Human Right (DHR) has reportedly urged the federal government to locate and release the missing persons who were abducted by intelligence agencies during the previous regime.

DHR Chairwoman Amina Masood Janjua said that for the release of missing persons, she had written letters to the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief, President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, the chief of the army staff and the Military Intelligence (MI) Director General.

Washington, Nov 7 : Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner has extended his blessings after his ex-girlfriend ‘Girl Next Door’ Kendra Wilkinson accepted footballer Hank Baskett’s marriage proposal.

When Kendra’s beau popped the question recently, Hefner said that he’ll support his ex-ladylove, and has even offered Playboy Mansion as a venue for her wedding reception.

Washington, Nov 7 : A new study has suggested that unknown and unseen structures, which may be located beyond the current cosmological horizon, are tugging on our universe like cosmic magnets.

According to a report in New Scientist, Alexander Kashlinsky, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, led the study.

Everything in the known universe is said to be racing toward the massive clumps of matter at more than 2 million miles (3.2 million kilometers) an hour—a movement the researchers have dubbed “dark flow”.

“Dark flow” was named in reference to dark energy and dark matter—two other unexplained astrophysical phenomena.

London - Pre-tax profits at British Airways (BA) fell by a staggering 91.6 per cent in first half of the company's financial year, figures showed Friday.

BA said pre-tax profit totalled 52 million pounds (83 million dollars), between April and September, down from 616 million pounds a year ago.

BA chief executive Willie Walsh said the period would "be remembered as one of the bleakest on record."

However, given the "difficult circumstances" under which BA had been operating, the result was acceptable.