Yangon/Singapore - Many young women in Myanmar's (Burma's) Irrawaddy delta region have stopped wearing their hair traditionally long, word goes.

Too many of them died in the metre-high floods brought on by Cyclone Nargis, because their hair got entangled in tree branches, or were strangled by their own hair as it wrapped around their neck.

Whether that is true or not is hard to verify. But hundreds of thousands were traumatised by the worst natural catastrophe the country has ever seen.

More than 138,000 lives were lost during the cyclone in May, and some 2.4 million people lost their belongings, while about 800,000 homes were destroyed.

London, Nov 4: French first lady Carla Bruni has been named ‘The Coolest Person Of The Year’ in a poll.

According to the survey, nearly one in four Brits said that the wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy was their favourite hip celeb, reports the Sun.

The 40-year-old hit headlines this year when she met the Queen and saw a nude portrait of herself fetch 45,000 pounds.

She has beaten Wuthering Heights singer Kate Bush, who won 14 per cent of votes in the survey of 4,000.

London, Nov 4 : The announcement by physicists that the Tevatron particle accelerator at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, which is the Large Hadron Collider’s (LHC’s) predecessor, has produced particles that they are unable to explain, could be a sign of new physics.

The Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) monitors the particles that spew from collisions between protons and anti-protons, which are accelerated and smashed head-on by the Tevatron.

The collision occurs inside the 1.5-centimetre-wide “beam pipe” that confines the protons and anti-protons, and the particles created are tracked by surrounding layers of electronics.

London, Nov 4: A dazzling display of cosmic ‘fireballs’ will light up the sky this week, in the form of an unusually good Taurid meteor shower.

Meteors are bits of dust or rock that plunge into Earth’s atmosphere at high speed, producing a glowing trail as they heat up gas particles.

The Taurid meteors originate in a stream of cometary debris that encircles the Sun. The debris was probably shed by a large, ancient comet that disintegrated to create the Taurid stream, as well as an existing comet called 2P/Encke.

According to a report in New Scientist, the Earth began cutting across the broad dust trail in October, but it will cross the densest parts of the stream on November 5 and 12.

Washington, Nov 4 : Despite lagging behind his Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama in opinion polls, Republican candidate John McCain has said that he was still confident of his victory in today’s presidential poll.

He predicted his victory at a rally of about 5000 supporters in GOP-friendly northeastern Tennessee.

Above cell phone cameras on upraised hands and children perched on parents'' shoulders, the crowd waved signs saying, “Support our troops," ''''Save Our Coal" and "Remember Sept. 11 — vote security."

Washington, Nov 4 : Halle Berry has revealed that she really admires Kate Winslet – for her ability to strip off at every opportunity.