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Obama musical hits Kenyan stages in election run-up

Barack ObamaNairobi - US presidential election favourite Barack Obama's life is being depicted in musical form in his ancestral homeland Kenya in the last days before the US election.

Obama the Musical opened Sunday at the Kenyan National Theatre in Nairobi on Sunday and will run until Wednesday.

The performance uses a mixture of song, dance and narration to follow the senator's life so far.

"I want to use the show not only to tell Obama's story but also to unite Kenyans," George Orido, the playwright and director of the musical, told The Daily Nation.

Study claims that gigantic Indian Ocean tsunamis occur every 600 years

A latest research has claimed that the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 that took more than 200,000 lives was not the first of its kind to hit the region.

Other than this, the study also revealed that such gigantic tsunamis occur in the Indian Ocean every 600 to 700 years. These finding could be used to predict the next Tsunami.

Karin Monecke, former post-doctoral geologist at Kent State University in Aceh, Indonesia led the research team, and he discovered that the 2004 sand sheet headed deposits of three tsunamis from the past 1,200 years.

According to a Kent State release, “Another research team working independently concluded that a tsunami of similar size struck the region between 1300 and 1400 AD.”

Kids who sleep less more likely to be obese as adults: Study

ObesityMelbourne, Nov 3: Kids who sleep less are more likely to be obese as adults, according to a New Zealand study.

For the study, researchers at the University of Otago followed more than 1000 children born in Dunedin between 1972 and 1973.

They found that kids aged between five and 11 who spent less time in bed had higher Body Mass Indexes as adults and were significantly more likely to be obese.

Chandrayaan’s Camera clicks pictures of Earth space

The Indian Space Research Organisation said on Friday that terrific shots of earth from space in black and white have been taken by the terrain mapping camera onboard India's first unmanned lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-1.

In a statement issued by the space agency it said, “The camera was operated through a series of commands from the spacecraft control centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s telemetry, tracking and command network (Istrac) here. The images were received by the deep space network (DSN) at Byalalu.”

Dollar millionaire dream of Kevin Pietersen’s squad goes up in smoke

Kevin PietersenAntigua (West Indies), Nov. 3: The England cricket team’s dream of becoming dollar millionaires went up in smoke in Antigua, when they were bundled out for a paltry 99 runs in a Twenty20 competition sponsored by Texan billionaire Allen Sanford.

Captain Kevin Pietersen said his team was ‘distracted’ while head coach Peter Moores blamed ‘confusion’ for their nightmare week and said they had learned an expensive lesson.

AQUOS 931SH Touchscreen Phone launched by Sharp through Softbank

Sharp, the well known Japanese cellphone maker recently announced the release of its latest 931SH mobile phone via Softbank. The new and exclusive 931SH touchscreen handset would popularize the already popular AQUOS-brand.

There are many exciting features of AQUOS 931SH such as 3.8-inch screen touch LCD display. This screen would be able to offer a resolution of 1024×480 pixels. Other than this, the users can also view sharp and superior quality videos, web pages, pictures and even live TV, since the handset has the ability to showcase TV from 1Seg tuner.

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