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.

Melbourne, October 27 : Not all celebrities are born with glamour, or at least such was the case with Madonna, Brad Pitt, Russell Crowe to name a few.

While some of the A-listers had reasonably decent beginnings, some had to sustain themselves with filthy jobs before creating a niche for themselves, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Matthew McConaughey spent a year shovelling chicken manure, Mick Jagger worked as a porter in a mental hospital, Madonna used to serve customers at ‘Dunkin Donut’.

Vienna  - Austria's government is set to extend the privatization process of Austrian Airlines AG and is ready to take over some of the carrier's debt, politicians and officials indicated Monday.

The state "might be ready to contribute financially in order to make the sale go through," Transport Minister Werner Faymann said.

Deutsche Lufthansa AG, the sole remaining bidder, is offering only a symbolic price for the government's 42.75-per-cent stake in Austrian Airlines, with an option of paying more once the ailing carrier has recovered, according to Austrian media reports.