London, Nov 1: The commander of Britain’s Special Air Service (SAS) troops in Afghanistan has resigned in disgust, accusing the Government of “gross negligence” over the deaths of four of his soldiers.

Major Sebastian Morley claims that Whitehall officials and military commanders repeatedly ignored his warnings that people would be killed if they continued to allow troops to be transported in the vulnerable Snatch Land Rovers.

As a result, he says Cpl Sarah Bryant – the first female soldier to die in Afghanistan – and three male colleagues, Cpl Sean Reeve, L/Cpl Richard Larkin and Paul Stout were killed needlessly, The Telegraph reported.

London, Nov 1: Calculations by astronomers has indicated that the mysterious dark matter could be shining with its own private kind of light, which though invisible to us, could still have visible effects.

Astronomers usually assume that dark matter particles barely interact with each other.

According to a report in New Scientist, Lotty Ackerman and colleagues at Caltech in Pasadena decided to test this assumption by supposing there is a force between dark matter particles that behaves in the same way as the electromagnetic force.

Undue loss of innocent lives that is taking place in Sri Lanka on pretext of LTTE’s removal have had a huge toll on Sri Lankans. Tamilians who form a significant part of their population have also lost their lives and in order to protest against it, the Nadigar Sangam will hold a fasting. Two of the major stars of Kollywood Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan have given their consent to duly participate in the voice raised that will take place on November 1st. The fasting will take place at Nadigar Sangam office in Habibullah Road, T. Nagar in Chennai between 10 AM and 4 PM.

Washington, Nov 1: The Commander of US forces in Iraq, General Raymond Odierno in a blunt assessment, has said that there is a 20-30 percent chance that the United States and Iraq won’t reach a deal to allow American troops to operate there past December 31.

On a scale of one to 10, “I’m probably a seven or eight that something is going to be worked out,” General Odierno told The Washington Times during a visit to the 101st Airborne Division in Samarra, about 120 miles north of Baghdad.

“I think it’s important for the Government of Iraq. I think it’s important for security and stability here,” he added.

Melbourne, November 1 : American twin-actresses Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen might be going in for matching boob jobs.

Ashley Olsen, who is best known with her sister for playing the role of ‘Michelle Tanner’ from the hit TV sitcom ‘Full House’, is reportedly considering getting her boobs done.

And is making attempts to convince her sister to go under the knife with her to look ‘more voluptuous’.

“She wants to be more voluptuous,” the Daily Telegraph quoted a source as telling Star magazine.

"And she told Mary-Kate that she wanted her to get one at the same time so that it wouldn''t be glaringly obvious.

Washington, Nov 1 : Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama told supporters to expect rival John McCain’s campaign to end in a crescendo of attacks on him.

“More of the slash and burn, say-anything, do-anything politics that’s calculated to divide and distract; to tear us apart instead of bringing us together,” Obama told 25,000 in Des Moines, Iowa.

The Illinois senator said he admired a presidential candidate who said in 2000, “I will not take the low road to the highest office in this land.”