Hanoi - Vietnamese Communist Party authorities are to fire two editors at a national newspaper that published articles critical of the government's policy, sources at the paper said Wednesday.

"We have received the Party's decision to punish us," said Dang Ngoc, vice editor-in-chief of the newspaper Dai Doan Ket (Great Unity). "The decision said that we had violated Vietnam's press law."

Dai Doan Ket is the voice of Vietnam's Fatherland Front, a powerful patriotic organization affiliated with the Communist Party.

Washington, October 29: An international team of researchers claims that it has unearthed evidence for the movement of Asian forms of avian influenza to Alaska by northern pintail ducks.

Scientists with the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) joined forces with researchers at the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Alaska and the University of Tokyo to study the role of migratory birds in the transfer of avian influenza viruses between Asia and North America.

Hilary Swank, the American actress, requested the women to donate their hair to a charity for making wigs for cancer victims.

As the American actress has done many things for women and cancer, now she pays her attention to those women who has lost hair due to cancer.

In a new movie, she plays a role as aviator Amelia Earheart who cuts off her hair and donate them for women who lose it when they undergo chemotherapy.

Now, she is campaigning for Beautiful Lengths to encourage other women to make a contribution in donating hair for cancer victims.

Washington, Oct 29 : Scientists at the University of Calgary (U of C) and the Royal Tyrrell Museum are providing new insight into the sense of smell of carnivorous dinosaurs, as part of a new study, which found that Tyrannosaurus rex had the best nose of all meat-eating dinosaurs.

The study, by U of C paleontologist Darla Zelenitsky and Royal Tyrrell Museum curator of dinosaur palaeoecology Francois Therrien, is the first time that the sense of smell has been evaluated in prehistoric meat-eating dinosaurs.

They found that Tyrannosaurus rex had the best nose of all meat-eating dinosaurs, and their results tone down the reputation of T. rex as a scavenger.

London, October 29: A British man’s doctors were puzzled to see that his skin turned orange after drinking too much of cider, and still he survived the condition.

Forty-seven-year-old Michael Stenning, who spent three weeks at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, began drinking more than four litres of cider a day after losing his job as a courier.

His friends convinced him to seek medical attention after his skin began to change colour.

Doctors at the hospital were “amazed” to see that he was still surviving.

"It was a miracle. I have never seen someone as sick as him leave the hospital alive," the Telegraph quoted Dr. Sumita Verma, who researches alcoholic hepatitis, as saying.

Gaza - A ship loaded with international pro-Palestinian activists intent on breaking Israel's blockade of the coastal salient docked in Gaza Wednesday morning, despite a vow by Israeli officials not to let the vessel enter the enclave's territorial waters.

"The Dignity", with 27 people on board, including Western human- rights activists, peace activists, journalists, and European and Palestinian lawmakers, moored at 8 am 
(0600 GMT), officials in naval police force of Hamas, who control the territory, said.

The boat left Cyprus on Tuesday and the activists plan to remain in the Strip for four days, Jamal al-Khodary, the head of Gaza-based Popular Committee Against the Siege, said.