Washington, October 31: A team of University of Kent researchers has shown that the selection of male or female group leaders may depend upon specific situations that the members face.

Psychologists Mark Van Vugt and Brian R. Spisak made volunteers participate in an investment game to see whether gender influences the selection of group leaders during various group competition situations.

Each volunteer was given six dollars, any of that amount could be invested into a group fund, with the volunteer keeping the rest for themselves. The participants were told that they would receive a bonus if the group fund exceeded a certain amount.

London, Oct 31: A seven-year-old Australian boy has been barred from a pub for "unruly behaviour and being offensive to patrons’.

Ronnie Wighton, of Oakden, has been banned from the Rocks Tavern, Carpenter Rocks, for one month after being served with the notice by licensee Kevin Mullins.

The final straw came on a Sunday evening earlier this month, when Ronnie refused to get down from a wall he had climbed at the Rocks Tavern.

"I asked his father to take the boy home and told him he was welcome to come back and keep drinking with his mates but he said I wasn''t kicking him and his son out of the pub and told me to ring the police, which I did," the Telegraph quoted Kevin Mullins, the landlord, as saying.

Hanoi - Heavy rains flooded Hanoi Friday as the death toll from rain and landslides in Vietnam's central provinces rose to at least 10 in the last week.

According to figures published Friday by the Central Committee for Storm and Flood Control, heavy rains and flood since October 24 have killed 10 people and left one missing in central Vietnam.

Heavy rains beginning early Friday morning paralyzed Hanoi, the country's capital. Local media reported thousands of motorbikes, cars, and buses trapped by high water.

The southern suburb of Ha Dong was reported to have received 350 millimeters of rain so far.

London, Oct 31: Hollywood stunner Cameron Diaz and beau Paul Sculfor are nowadays busy hunting for a Hollywood love nest.

The actress has been seeing the Essex-born model for some months.

And now the hunk has become a permanent fixture at her home.

But now, it seems, that they are planning to take things forward and are looking for a new place together where they can both put their mark on the décor.

Earlier this month Cameron, 36, viewed four houses near Sunset Plaza, just off Sunset Boulevard. It’s believed Paul, who previously romanced Jennifer Aniston, looked at some of the properties, too.

London, Oct 31: The global economy is headed for a "pretty serious recession" that could leave some major household name websites floundering, however, there won’t be any bloodbath, says the founder of Wikipedia, a well-known online encyclopedia.

Jimmy Wales believes that the Internet and technology companies will suffer a "serious downturn" that will hit websites that are heavily reliant on advertising.

"It won''t be a 10pc collapse which kills everybody, but [advertising revenue] is going to drop and that is going to hurt people, a lot of marginal players are going to have serious problems,” the Telegraph quoted him, as saying.

Beijing - The global economic crisis is expected to slow China's economy down from previous double-digit growth rates to 9.8 per cent in 2008, Chinese officials said Friday.

After a significant slowdown in the third quarter, caused by the economic crisis, China's economy grew 9.9 per cent in the first nine months of the year, less than expected, China's State Information Centre was quoted as saying by the China Daily newspaper.

The effects of the crisis were expected to increase gradually, the centre said, adding that China's economic planners will have to concentrate on ensuring rapid and stable growth in 2009.