According to administration sources, secretary of Governor David Paterson, Charles O’Byrne, has resigned on Friday, after a week of increasing criticism over his failure to pay income taxes for 2001-05 – an amount of $300,000 - on time, and not offering a tangible reason for the lapse.

A source told Newsday that O’Byrne has had to leave his $178,500 job primarily “because of the taxes.” O’Byrne blamed his tax delinquency on clinical depression, for which he has undergone treatment three times.

London, October 25 : In the run up to the presidential election in the United States, a research team has come up with a personality test that can help find out whether an individual is fit for the Oval Office.

The new approach tests five big factors of personality—namely neuroticism, extroversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness—as well as their sub-factors.

So far, it has been used to make psychological assessments of all 41 US presidents prior to George W. Bush, and to rank them eight different types, from "dominators" to "actors".

More recently, the same tool was used to profile John McCain, Rudolf Guiliani, and Hillary Clinton. Unfortunately, the analysis did not include Barack Obama.

Washington, Oct 25 : In what is being described as an after-affect of former Secretary of State Colin Powell committing his support for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, a large number of Republican moderates, neo-cons and former aides to President Bush who have announced that they will vote for Democrat Barack Obama.

Powell had last week crossed party lines to announce his support for Barack Obama.

Gurgaon: An unbeaten 51 from Hemang Badani helped Chennai Superstars to defeat Delhi Giants by five runs in the ICL 20s Championship at Tau Devi Lal stadium.

Chasing a victory target of 167, the Delhi team got to a solid start as both their openers, Marvan Atapattu (25) and Monish Mishra added 60 runs in just seven overs for the first wicket. Mishra scored a quick fire 36 runs off just 20 balls with two sixes and three fours. However, after losing both their openers, no other batsman from Giants could stay at the wicket for long. For Chennai, Nantie Haywards was pick of the bowlers claiming two wickets for just 25 runs.

Scores in brief: Chennai Superstars: 166/6, H.Badani 51*, R Satish 41, Murtaza 1/11, S Bond 1/34.

The National Democratic Alliance, the CPI (M) and the BSP staged a walkout from Parliament due to the declaration by the Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Murli Deora that the government shall take a week before deciding the future of fuel prices.

The Minister also stated that keeping in mind the depreciation of the rupee, an appropriate decision shall be taken.

Washington, Oct 25: An international team of researchers is testing an artificial pancreas— computerized, subcutaneous system—hoping that it may one day revolutionise how Type 1 diabetics manage their disease.

University of Virginia researchers associated with the project have revealed that the team have already completed the first of several international artificial pancreas clinical trials to test an individually-“prescribed” control algorithm, which regulates blood glucose levels in Type 1 diabetics.