Washington, Oct 25: People who have experienced social rejection by family, friends, or peers acquire a sense to tell “fake” smiles from the “real” ones, says a new Miami University study.

The study demonstrated that people who have faced rejection have an enhanced ability to determine whether the “happy” face before them is genuine or not.

Led by Michael Bernstein, a Miami doctoral student in social psychology and one of the researchers, the study was conducted on 32 subjects, 17 women and 15 men.

The researchers found that the subjects who were manipulated to feel rejection could distinguish a fake smile from a real one nearly 80 percent of the time.

Los Angeles - New Jersey Nets coach Lawrence Frank continues to learn valuable lessons to take into the regular season.

Vince Carter scored 20 points, and the Nets nearly blew a 21-point fourth-quarter lead before holding off the New York Knicks, 111-110, on Friday night in the preseason finale for both teams.

"There are a lot of good things that happened tonight, a lot of good play to get the lead," said Frank, whose club opens the regular season at Washington on Wednesday.

"It's good lessons because you're on the road, (the) team's obviously going to make a run back and it's learning how to play through mistakes and not letting mistakes multiply, not letting momentum take over the game."

Washington, Oct 25: With the number of HIV/AIDS cases increasing in South Africa, health workers have now resorted to one of the most popular technology to make people aware of the virus and the disease- text messaging.

Health workers have launched an ambitious text messaging campaign, which will inform millions of South Africans daily about HIV/AIDS counseling services and testing centers throughout the country.

The campaign is titled, Project Masiluleke, which means "hope" and "warm counsel" in the South Africa''s major language, Zulu.

New York, Oct 25 : Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan’s career is said to be on the verge of dying after the ‘Ugly Betty’ bomb hit it.

It is being predicted that after the reduction of Lohan’s role to mere four episodes, following an alleged feud between her and lead actress America Ferrera, her career is almost in the burial.

"It''s over for Lindsay, she''s got no film work, and after this [''Ugly Betty'' news], she''s not going to land TV jobs,” the New York Daily News quoted an insider telling MSNBC

“I hear she''s even tried to get on ‘Dancing With the Stars'' and can''t," the insider added.

Tokyo - A Japanese woman was arrested for cold-blooded murder of her husband - in cyberspace.

According to a report by the Yomiuri Shinbum newspaper on Saturday, the 43-year-old from Miyazaki prefecture in southern Japan, was outraged that her virtual husband divorced her character in the online game Maple Story.

Gamers in the virtual role-play enter social relationships with other characters and fight against virtual enemies. The woman married her game partner, but the man, a company employee from Sapparo in northern Japan divorced her again subsequently.

Police said the woman, identified as Mayumi Tomari, illicitly obtained the man's password and ID and terminated his online existence.

Washington, Oct 25 : Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s popularity is depleting by the day, even as less than two weeks are left for the Nov 4 elections. According to Washington Post, public perception about Palin was falling because people believe that she lacks experience to handle the second-highest post.