Hanoi - Vietnamese health authorities have found the industrial chemical melamine in powdered milk imported from Australia and three brands of cookies imported from Malaysia, raising the number of melamine-tainted products found in the country to 29, health officials said Thursday.

Nguyen Thi Khanh Tram, deputy director of Vietnam's Food Hygiene and Safety Agency, said the importers were cooperating with the agency's request to recall the milk and cookies.

The tainted Gold 1-10 milk powder was produced in Australia in May. The cookies - known as Lexus Cheese Cream, Lexus Chocolate Cream and Lexus Peanut Cream - were produced in Malaysia in May and August.

Washington, Nov 6 : American pop princess Britney Spears has proven that she has what it takes to change her life for the better when she was spotted to be on her best behaviour at a party this Halloween.

The Toxic singer had just last year lost custody of her kids and spent Halloween night crazily running around Los Angeles in a pink leotard.

She was this year seen attending Drew Barrymore’s Private Halloween Party at her Hollywood Hills home, Fox News reported.

Washington, Nov 6 : A new study has determined that tornadoes that occur from midnight to dawn are 2.5 times more likely to prove fatal than twisters in the daytime.

The study, by scientists from the Northern Illinois University, also suggests that warning systems that have led to overall declines in tornado death rates might not be adequate for overnight events.

Nighttime tornadoes occur most frequently in the mid-South region of the United States.

Over the past century, the tornado death rate has declined, in large part because of sophisticated forecasting technology and warning systems.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has congratulated Barack Obama on his election as the president of the United States and said his "journey to the White House" would inspire people around the world.

"Your extraordinary journey to the White House will inspire people not only in your country but also around the world," Manmohan Singh said in his congratulatory message.

Johannesburg - The last and the biggest of four exceptional auctions of ivory stockpiles got underway in South Africa Thursday, with Chinese and Japanese buyers vying to buy up 51 tonnes of the so- called "white gold."

The sale takes place nearly a decade after the last authorized sale of ivory in southern Africa in 1999.

The ivory trade has been banned since 1989 but the 171 members of the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) have given the go-ahead for four countries with thriving elephant populations to sell off ivory accumulated in their national parks.

Paris - French transport equipment manufacturer Alstom said Thursday it had registered record orders and a healthy profits rise in the first half of its current business year.