London, Nov 2 : Expecting mums will be warned not to drink more than two cups of coffee a day or risk giving birth to underweight babies, according to a health watchdog.

The British Government''s food standards watchdog will this week issue the guidance advising women to limit caffeine consumption to 200mg a day, a third less than the previous recommended limit of 300mg.

The warning follows a US study earlier this year that linked caffeine consumption to a higher rate of miscarriages.

The advice from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) comes a week after scientists found that a weekly glass of wine during pregnancy could help improve a baby''s behaviour and vocabulary.

Lahore, Nov 2 : The dead body of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein who was executed around two years ago, was stabbed at least six times (after being executed), the head guard at the former president’s tomb in north of Baghdad has claimed. The guard was one of the 300 persons who helped bury the corpse.

“There were six stab wounds on his body. Four of the wounds were on the former president’s front and two on his back,” Pakistani daily the Daily Times quoted Talal Misrab (45), the head guard, as saying in an interview with The Times.

He also said there was an injury to his face, and that 300 other people witnessed the injuries when the body was buried in the early hours of the morning, the day after Saddam was executed.

Indian equities started the week negatively tracking hopeless global cues and heavy selling action witnessed by FIIs as well as retail investors.
The Sensex touched the 8,000 mark, while the Nifty embraced the 2,300 level during intra-day. Afterward, it recovered some lost ground on account of short covering and buying by domestic institutional investors.

The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on Tuesday celebrated Diwali at evening when the index posted a sharp 547-point gain taking back some eagerness among investors after five days of decline.

A new and innovative technique has been developed by the security researchers, with which they can copy house keys just by using its picture as reference.

This technique has been developed by computer scientists at UC San Diego, and it needs no physical access to keys and only a fairly low resolution picture for the software to work. The scientist say that this technique has been developed by team with the aim to reveal to everyone that keys are not as secure as they are thought to be.

Melbourne, Nov 2 : Although the ‘art’ called ‘shopping’ has no ‘science’ behind it, a mathematician has come up with the prefect formula for spending spree.

Roger Bird’s algebraic formula takes in certain factors, which include time constraints, the number of shoppers in the group and the amount of spending money, to calculate the best conditions for a shopping trip.

The researcher from Bradford Education Authority, in Britain, devised the formula based on results of a shopping centre survey of 1000 people.

As per Bird''s findings, the perfect excursion involved a visit to several clothing stores located close to each other between 9am and 11am on a Saturday, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Washington, November 2 : A Dalhousie University mathematician has a mystery as to why the opening chord to The Beatles’ "A Hard Day''s Night" is completely different than anything found in the literature about the song to date.

Jason Brown’s work attains significance as no one quite knew exactly what chord Harrison was playing for 40 years.

He has found that there was a piano among Harrison’s 12-string Rickenbacker, John Lennon’s six-string guitar and Paul McCartney’s bass guitar, and that they collectively accounted for the problematic frequencies.