Melbourne, Oct 23: A daily tipple can keep you happy, according to a new study.

Australian Unity Wellbeing Index has confirmed that those who drink one or two glasses of alcohol every day are the happiest people.

It found that happiness levels declined for older drinkers who had more than three drinks in a session, but not for those aged 18 to 26.

It also showed that those who exercise up to three times a week also were relatively happy but those who never drank were among the most miserable, recording "below normal wellbeing".

Washington, Oct 23 : Hillary Clinton’s pantsuits designer thinks that it would be unusual for a candidate as famous as Sarah Palin to need to buy clothes.

Republican National Committee has spent up to 150,000 dollars on the vice Presidential nominee’s wardrobe and makeup, since she became John McCain’s running mate.

However, one of the most famous political fashion designers of the year, Susanna Chung Forest, says that she finds the spending strange.

“Why do you need to pay for it?” CBS News quoted Forest, as saying.

“It’s an honour, you are going to design for someone who could be the president of the United States,” she added.

Vilnius - Lithuanians return to the polls for the second round of voting in their 2008 general election Sunday 26 October.

Two weeks ago, the first round of voting in the Baltic nation gave the opposition Homeland Union - the Christian Democrats - a slight lead with 19.72 per cent of the vote which they are predicted to extend in Sunday's vote and gain a mandate to form the next government.

"We are ready to take responsibility and expect the president's offer to start forming a new cabinet," party leader Andrius Kubilius said after the first round. The conservative-leaning party is currently in opposition.

In a first of its kind, health insurer Aetna Inc. teaming up with Microsoft Corp. is offering clients medical record storage, allowing them to access the Internet-based vault, even if they change jobs or replace their health plan for another.  According to Wall Street Journal, beginning next month, all Aetna clients will be able to transfer information from their Aetna ‘personal health record’, an online repository of data, such as, claims, diagnoses, test results and prescriptions, to HealthVault.  Patients will be allowed to choose what they want to transfer between Aetna and Microsoft.

Wellington - Next month's New Zealand general election might not be the predicted sure thing for the conservative opposition National Party, an opinion poll released Thursday night indicated.

Although the Nationals remained well ahead of the Labour Party, which has led minority coalition governments for the past nine years, the Greens, who are seen as certain potential partners for Labour, are showing their biggest level of voter support in five years, the TV3 poll found.

The Nationals are backed by 45.1 per cent of committed voters while Labour is supported by 37.4 per cent. But the Greens are on 8.8 per cent, which with Labour would produce a virtual tie in the election on November 8.

Seoul - Shares continued their freefall Thursda