The USD continued to advance today against the majors with the exception of the Yen; making new highs in New York trade into the end of day after the London fix. Traders were expecting potential for more month-end USD buying although not on the scale seen last week and with weaker energy and equities the USD firmed all day.

London, November 4 : Japanese researchers have successfully cloned healthy mice from cells derived from dead mice, which had been frozen for 16 years.

Teruhiko Wakayama, of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, says that the breakthrough has raised the possibility of cloning endangered species from old carcasses.

He says that this advancement even indicates that researchers may someday be able to resurrect extinct animals frozen in permafrost, such as the woolly mammoth.

"It would be very difficult, but our work suggests that it is no longer science fiction," New Scientist magazine quoted him as saying.

After opening with a loss of 33.11 points at 10,304.57, the 30-share index BSE Sensex continued to trade in a subdued manner.

IT stocks continue to languish in the red with sharp losses, and lost 6.12%, while realty, PSU, banking and FMCG stocks saw buying interest.

The BSE Midcap and Smallcap index gained 0.62% and 0.88% respectively.

At 12:59 p.m., the 30-share index lost 52.47 points at 10,285.21, after hitting a high of 10,387.19 and a low of 10,116.22.

New Delhi - India's first moon mission Chandrayaan-1 entered lunar space early Tuesday for its final journey into lunar orbit, news reports said.

"The operation to put Chandrayaan into lunar space went off very well. The complex manoeuvre was carried out around 5 am (2330 GMT Tuesday) ... to place the unmanned spacecraft 380,000 kilometres away from earth and 1,000 kilometres from the moon," Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) director S Satish was quoted as saying by IANS news agency.

Washington, November 4: Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder have found that human hands harbor far higher numbers of bacteria species than previously believed, and that women’s palms carry a significantly greater diversity of microbes than those of men.

London, Nov 4: American actor Richard Dreyfuss is set to return to London stage four years after he was fired from the hit musical ‘The Producers’.

The Oscar winner will return to the stage with a play titled ‘Complicit’ to be directed by Hollywood star Kevin Spacey.

Dreyfuss plays the role of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who is hauled before the US Supreme Court.

"I''m very excited to have a chance of not being fired before the opening," BBC quoted him, as saying.

"It''s great that he''s coming to London and I think audiences are in for a real treat," he added.