Moscow - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called for the extension of his term in office to six years in his first state-of- the-nation address on Wednesday since succeeding Vladimir Putin.
Medvedev, 43, addressing the country's top political elite gathered in the Kremlin's most opulent St George Hall, said the proposed amendment was not a reform to the constitution, but rather a "correction."
The basic principles of the constitution would remain unchanged, he said, proposing to extend the presidential term to six from the current four years and the term for lawmakers in Russia's lower house of parliament to five.
Tokyo - People in the small north-central and southern Japanese towns of Obama exuberantly celebrated Wednesday as the communities' namesake was elected US president.
The Obama Boys and Girls were dancing their hula in north-central Obama city when the news broke that Barack Obama defeated rival Republican candidate John McCain and was declared president-elect.
During Obama's victory speech at Grant Park, Chicago, his fans in the far-eastern fishing town also joined the Obama chants.
"Mr Obama proved to us that we can make our dreams come true by taking action," an Obama resident said after the results came in.
Researchers say increasing wait times for hernia surgery for infants and toddlers under two, not only leads to more emergency visits, but could also potentially damage testicles or ovaries
Inguinal hernia, a bulging tissue in the groin area that could also be present at birth, is one of the most common surgical childhood disorders responsible for vomiting, lack of bowel movements and other symptoms, leading to increasing number of emergency room visits.
London, November 5: A new study suggests that super-productive modern chickens have, on average, lost over half the genes present in ancestral populations.
Bill Muir of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, even says that some modern chickens have lost 90 per cent of the genes that were present in ancestral populations.
The researcher said that the new findings indicated that chickens these days lack those characteristics that evolved when they lived in the wild, and might be useful again to help them face stress and disease as livestock.
Inbreeding is a concern with chickens, as the industry is dominated by a few big corporations that produce billions of birds from a handful of private breeding lines.
Tokyo - People in the small north-central and southern Japanese towns of Obama exuberantly celebrated Wednesday as the communities' namesake was elected US president.
Beirut - Now that the US has chosen Barack Obam
Washington - By picking Senator Joe Biden, 65, as his runnin
