Washington, Oct 30: Archaeologists have discovered a 3,000-year-old temple featuring an image of a spider god in Peru, which may hold clues to little-known cultures in the ancient past of the country.

People of the Cupisnique culture, which thrived from roughly 1500 to 1000 B. C., built the temple in the Lambayeque valley on Peru''s north coast.

According to a report in National Geographic News, the adobe temple, found this summer and called Collud, is the third discovered in the area in recent years.

"The finds suggest that the three valley sites may have been part of a large capital for divine worship," said archaeologist Walter Alva, director of the Royal Tombs of Sipan Museum.

Zagreb - Croatian police have arrested 10 people suspected of taking part in the killing of journalist Ivo Pukanic, and were continuing the investigation with forces in neighbouring countries, a police spokesman said Thursday.

"They are dangerous members of the criminal milieu ... with the gravest crimes in their records," police spokesman Krunoslav Borovec told a press conference.

"We are continuing to collaborate with police in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina," Borovec said. Two of the suspects are Serbian nationals.

Several of the arrested suspects were prominent figures from the powerful Balkan underworld, local reports said.

Washington, October 30 : University of Utah scientists say that they have created a sensitive prototype device for medical tests that is based on the same principle as a credit card-swipe machine.

The researchers say that their device could test for dozens or even hundreds of diseases simultaneously.

They say that their approach involves a card loaded with microscopic blood, saliva, or urine samples.

"Think how fast your PC reads data on a hard drive, and imagine using the same technology to monitor your health," says Marc Porter, a Utah Science, Technology and Research (USTAR) professor of chemistry, chemical engineering and bioengineering.

Thrissur, Oct. 30 : Believe it or not, a temple devoted to Lord Shiva in Mazhuvanchery Village near Kechery in Kerala''s Thrissur District, has a unique convention to dispense knowledge.

At the Mahadeva temple, dedicated to Lord Shiva, even the offerings to the deity are educational aids. It is done as a ritual here.

Visiting devotees are distributed textbooks, writing material and informative brochures as Prasad or, holy offering here.

Patna, Oct 30: Railways Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav today announced compensation of Rs three lakhs for the widow of Dharam Dev Rai, a resident of Uttar Pradesh''s Gorakhpur district who was beaten to death on a train in Badlapur in Maharashtra, after the miscreants identified him as a "North Indian".

The incident caught media attention as it happened in the wake of the ongoing raging controversy over harassment of North Indians, particularly those from Bihar, in Mumbai.

Berlin - German unemployment fell more than expected in October, defying the economic gloom facing the nation, data released Thursday showed.

After dropping by a revised 28,000 in September, seasonally adjusted unemployment fell by another 26,000 to 3.151 million in October, Germany's Federal Labour Office said.

This resulted in the unemployment rate edging down from 7.6 per cent in September to 7.5 per cent in October.