Jakarta - The US and Australian embassies in Indonesia received bomb threats Tuesday ahead of the imminent execution of three Muslim militants convicted of taking part in the 2002 Bali bombings, police and media reports said.

The bomb threats were sent anonymously through a telephone text message to the police, said Heri Wibowo, spokesman for the central Jakarta city police.

Police have taken the bomb threats seriously although a similar threat against a shopping mall in Jakarta on Monday proved to be a hoax.

Washington, November 4: Tel Aviv University researchers have come up with a new driver’s training program that can help decrease road accidents and fatalities on account of ADHD, an attention deficit disorder common in teens which is considered to be a serious driver’s disability.

The researchers say that they have merged their findings of their own clinical research with occupational therapy to develop the new approach, which can prove fundamental in treating old as well as young drivers with ADHD.

“There is no doubt in my mind that ADHD interferes with one’s ability to drive safely,” says Dr. Navah Ratzon from TAU’s Department of Occupational Therapy, who is leading the new initiative.

This is the second time in two months that Sony’s name has been linked with overheating problems that has initiated recall on more than 100,000 batteries found in Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba and Dell Notebook Computers. “The lithium-ion batteries can overheat, posing a fire and burn hazard to consumers,” reported the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Islamabad, Nov 4: Amid repeated complaints from Pakistan Information and Broadcasting Minister Sherry Rehman that Pakistan Television (PTV) Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) Dr Shahid Masood was not following her official orders, the top PTV man is learnt to have tendered his resignation to take up a new job as “Special Assistant” to Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.

A statement issued from the Pakistan PM House said that Gilani had accepted Masood’s resignation and appointed him as his special assistant with the status of a minister of state with immediate effect, reported the Daily Times.

The Cabinet Division later issued a notification in this regard.

Chicago - In Chicago's Hyde Park district, Barack Obama is more than a candidate for president: he's "just a nice guy" who stops to say hello at local sporting events or who gets his hair cut at the same neighbourhood barber.

It's a diverse, left-leaning enclave, home to both white and black affluent professionals, and surrounded by working class and poor minority neighbourhoods on Chicago's South Side, with overwhelming support for their favourite son, the Democratic presidential nominee.

Islamabad, Nov 4: The US has reportedly not guaranteed an end to the ongoing drone strikes in Pakistan aimed at Taliban and Al Qaeda militants, even as the leadership in Islamabad apprised US Central Command chief General David Petraeus that it could no longer tell its people to support the US-led war on terror in the wake of frequent violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty through air strikes.

General David Petraeus, who is on an official visit to Pakistan, met a host of Pakistani leaders on Monday. It is his first visit after taking over his new assignment last week.