Washington, Oct 28 : Electrically stimulating the brain with a non-invasive technique called transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can improve a person’s skill at handling delicate tasks.

According to the Drs. Gottfried Schlaug and Bradley Vines from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, tDCS could improve the use of a person''s non-dominant hand. 

In tDCS, electrodes are attached to the scalp and a weak direct current is passed the scalp and skull to alter the excitability of the underlying brain tissue. 

The treatment has two principal modes depending on the direction in which the current runs between the two electrodes. Brain tissue that underlies the positive electrode 

London, Oct 28 : Nazi memorabilia being auctioned in London has raised a whopping 90,000 pounds, despite the recent credit crunch shaking the world.

Jonathan Humbert, of Northamptonshire-based J. P. Humbert Auctioneers, claimed that his three-day grand sale had fetched a massive 90,000 pounds thus far. 

The Nazi items that have been put up for going under the hammer includes a death head ring owned by Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler, which was sold for 2,200 pounds.

A number of other Nazi daggers and swords raised hammer prices ranging from 200 to 800 pounds each.

There was also a Nazi pin badge that sold for 180 pounds. 

Kuala Lumpur  - Malaysia's share market dropped 3.1 per cent Tuesday on panic selling by investors concerned over a dismal global economic outlook, said dealers.

Singapore  - An afternoon buying spree Tuesday brought some relief to Singapore's battered Straits Times Index, which nosedived in the first hour of trading.

The index made a turnaround, gaining 66.21 points, or 4.41 per cent, to close at 1,666.49.

The index had dropped to a low of 1,475.86 within the first hour of trading to start the week on a bearish note after being closed Monday for a holiday.

A total of 1,490.5 million shares were traded on the Singapore Exchange with 364 stocks recording losses and 205 managing gains.

Bangkok  - Thai shares rose 2.74 per cent Tuesday in a slight rebound that underperformed most other Asian markets.

Melbourne, Oct 28 : Aussie professional golfer Greg Norman’s ex-wife Laura Andrassy has blamed his friendship with former tennis player Chris Evert as being the cause of the break up of their marriage.

She made the revelation on TV on October 27, saying she “would love to have (her) family together”, while laying the blame for the split squarely on Evert.

Andrassy recalled a moment when she had met Evert while still married to the golfer, and how her “woman''s intuition” told her something was amiss.

“Probably the first time they came out to our ranch in Colorado, I felt there was something uncomfortable but I never felt it from Greg,” News. com. au quoted her as saying.