London, Oct 31 : Rare first edition of Playboy magazine, which featured Marilyn Monroe on the cover, has fetched 2,000 pounds at an auction in London.

Guwahati, Oct 31: Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil will visit Assam today to take the stock of the situation after Thursday''s serial blasts in the state.

Senior BJP leader and Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, L K Advani, is also scheduled to visit the state later in the day.

Meanwhile, a massive search operation has been launched to arrest those involved in blasts, in which 70 people were killed and over 300 injured.

A seven-member National Security Guard (NSG) team has already reached Guwahati to identify the explosives used in the blasts.

According to the recent Obama vs McCain Alabama Polls, John McCain is having big lead over Barack Obama in the Camellia State.

Alabama has long been favoring the Republican. The state’s electoral votes were won by Republicans in 2000 and 2004 respectively. Let’s check out what the recent McCain vs Obama Alabama Polls show.

Capital Survey Research Center’s Obama vs McCain AL poll, conducted from October 15 to October 21, shows McCain leading Obama by 20 % points — 54 % to 34 % among the likely voters of Alabama.

Manila - Philippine share prices rose 4.62 per cent on Friday as investors snapped up undervalued stocks.

The Philippine Stock Exchange's 30-share composite index gained 86.16 points to close at 1,951.09 points from Thursday's finish of 1,864.93.

A total of 1.78 billion shares valued at 3.10 billion dollars (63.26 million dollars) were traded.

Gainers outpaced losers 99 to 16, while 32 issues were unchanged.

Washington, Oct 31: The Hubble space telescope has detected a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies that appear to mark the number ten.

The galaxies, called Arp 147, were observed by Hubble’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2).

The left-most galaxy, or the “one” in the image, is relatively undisturbed apart from a smooth ring of starlight. It appears nearly on edge to our line of sight. The right-most galaxy, resembling a zero, exhibits a clumpy, blue ring of intense star formation.

The blue ring was most probably formed after the galaxy on the left passed through the galaxy on the right.

Indian equities opened strongly on the back of positive global cues.

IT, FMCG and oil & gas stocks gained ground. BSE Midcap and Smallcap index rose more than 2% each.

The US Federal Reserve slashed bank rates by 50 basis points on Wednesday (Oct 29), and many other central banking institutions are likely to follow suit sooner than later.

The inflationary figures declined to 10.68% for the week ended October 18, as compared with 11.07 per cent for the previous week. The annual rate of inflation was 3.11 per cent in the corresponding period a year ago.