London, Oct 27 : Wayne Rooney, England’s striker, wants to stay at Manchester United for the rest of his career.

Rooney, who turned 23 last week, said that he was a northern lad and would be happy to stay there for the rest of his career, the News of the World quoted him, as saying.

“As for moving abroad can you ever seem me playing for a foreign team? I love England and I love being close to my family,” said the England striker.

“I’ve said many times before how much I enjoy playing here and nothing will change that,” Rooney added.

Berlin - German troops in Afghanistan opened fire on a vehicle which failed to stop at a checkpoint, seriously wounding two of the occupants, the defence ministry said Monday.

A spokesman said the incident occurred on Friday near the northern city of Kunduz.

The troops, serving with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), first fired warning shots at the minibus, the spokesman said.

When the driver continued to approach the checkpoint at high speed, the soldiers opened fire with sub-machine guns, hitting the vehicle's engine, the spokesman said.

Several persons were wounded, among them two men who suffered serious injuries that required treatment in a a nearby German field hospital, he added.

Washington, Oct 27 : Vaccinating new mothers and other family members against influenza can protect newborns against the life-threatening virus, say researchers from Duke Children''s Hospital.

The researchers suggest that vaccinating new mothers and other family members against influenza before their newborns leave the hospital creates a "cocooning effect" that may protect infants from contracting the disease.

Beirut - Lebanon's Prime Minister Fouad Seniora denounced Monday the US helicopter-borne commando raid in Syria which allegedly targeted the al-Qaeda-linked insurgents streaming into Iraq.

According to Syria, eight people, including a married couple and their four children were killed in the raid on a building in the village of Al-Sukkariya, some eight kilometres from the country's border with Iraq.

"The raid by US helicopters on Syrian territory ... constitutes a violation of Syrian sovereignty and thus is a dangerous, unacceptable attack that we condemn," a statement from Seniora's office said.

London, Oct 27 : A TV chef has created a huge furore after he announced to cook on a prime-time show Adolf Hitler''s favourite meal — trout with butter sauce.

In fact, professional cook Jeroen Meus, will cook the dish at Berchtesgaden, the place where the Nazi leader had his summer home on a mountaintop.

However, Jewish resistance and political prisoner organisations worldwide have condemned the Belgian chef for his programme, as it would portray a soft image of Hitler in the viewers’ minds.

London, Oct 27 : Scientists from Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Centre in Jerusalem have successfully grown eggs from tissue taken from five-year-old girls suffering from cancer.

The breakthrough offers a ray of hope to childhood cancer sufferers who are often left infertile by the treatment, and are compelled to rely on donated eggs and sperm or adopting to have their own family.

The problem is especially difficult for children who develop cancer before they reach puberty because they cannot freeze their own eggs and sperm.