Washington, Sept 9: Move over drugs, smoking and even gambling, for a new compulsion has hit today’s youth – Internet addiction.

The new finding will make mental health professionals face a new affliction, besides compulsive gambling or even the ‘age-old’ smoking and drug addiction.

Louise Nadeau, from Universite de Montreal’s Department of Psychology, is now investigating this newly found compulsive affliction, in which large number of people are continuously hooked on to the Internet for hours.

Washington, Sept 9: Children who are bilingual before the age of five are more likely to stutter than non-bilingual counterparts and also find it harder to overcome their impediment, according to a new study.

The study will be published in Archives of Disease in Childhood.

To reach the conclusion, the researchers reviewed 317 children, who were referred for stutter when aged between 8 and 10.

All the children lived in Greater London, and all had started school in the UK at the age of 4 or 5.

The children''s carers were asked if they spoke a language other than English exclusively or combined with English at home.

Washington, September 9 : Zoologists at Tel Aviv University have discovered that a dog and a cat introduced to each other while still a puppy and a kitten, respectively, can actually learn each other’s body language.

"Like children, who learn a new language more easily than adults, so too did the cats and dogs learn their new ''language'' more easily, the younger they were," Discovery News quoted Joseph Terkel, a professor in the Department of Zoology at the university, as saying.

Sydney - Australian Muslims said Tuesday that racism was behind a Sydney council's decision to approve plans for a Catholic school and reject a proposal to build an Islamic school.

The building projects are in the Sydney suburb of Camden, where five months ago the local council received 3,500 complaints about a plan to build an Islamic school and had to hire security guards to ensure order at meetings where the project was discussed.

Havana/Port-au-Prince/Miami  - With nearly one-tenth of its population evacuated to safety, the whole of Cuba was in a state of emergency over Hurricane Ike Monday, with sustained winds of 130 kilometres per hour and higher gusts lashing the Caribbean island.

Ike has already left 72 dead in Haiti, bringing to 300 the poverty-stricken country's death toll from four tropical storms and hurricanes this season.

Havana/Port-au-Prince/Mexico City  - Hurricane Ike was by Monday a serious threat to the whole of Cuba.

As early as Sunday afternoon, the surging sea in north-eastern Cuba had built waves several metres tall and forced its way deep into the coastal towns in the province of Holguin.

By 10 pm local time, when the eye of the storm made landfall near Punta Lucrecia, some 800,000 people had already been taken to safety. Power was down, and people throughout the region waited in complete darkness for Ike to pass.

Communist Cuba's elderly revolutionary leader Fidel Castro published an article Monday under the headline "Besieged by hurricanes."