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According to Barron’s, shares of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd that fell below their initial offering price after having climbed 75% in their first two months of trading are expected to lose another 50% of their value.

The reasons the weekly financial newspaper gave for the dour outlook: China's struggling economy, increasing competition in e-commerce and more scrutiny of the company's culture and governance.

According to Alibaba spokesman, Bob Christie, the article “contains factual inaccuracies and selective use of information, and the conclusions the reporter draws are misleading”. A letter has been posted by the company to Barron's editor in which it has complained about the story.

Late Tuesday, the Maryland Division of Agriculture has informed the Bowie officers that a resident of Bowie might be suffering from West Nile virus. At this stage, it is not confirmed that the person is having the virus. It also not confirmed from where he has contracted the virus.

Jeannine Dorothy, an entomologist with the Maryland Division of Agriculture, said that they do not think that the person has contracted the problem from Bowie, as there mosquito spray is being done on regular basis.

Dorothy shared that the person lives with the Somerset neighborhood. On Tuesday, all streets within the area and different nearby areas of the streets will be sprayed. On August 19, the state health officials have reported Maryland’s first confirmed of West Nile virus.

A study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine has found that there is a link between psychosis and homophobia. After investigating homophobia as possible mental illness, correlations to psychological dysfunctions were found.

Study researchers from Italy’s University of L’Aquila said, “After discussing for centuries if homosexuality is to be considered a disease, for the first time we demonstrated that the real disease to be cured is homophobia, associated with potentially severe psychopathologies”.

An experiment was carried out in which more than 520 students aged between 18 and 30 have taken part. They were given a series of evaluations and those who have received high scores for psychoticism also tended to be more homophobic.

Across the world, prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men. September being observed as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, men have been encouraged to get their prostate checks done. After the age of 40, men should undergo prostate cancer screening every year up to the age of 75 years.

Out of all, the black population has the highest rate of diagnosis of prostate cancer. Urologist Dr Gareth Reid said that there are evidences that prostate cancers diagnosed in black men can be much more aggressive. It has also been found that even with the treatment, the long-term outcome can come out worse than in the Caucasian population.

A new study has found that tricycles send thousands of kids to emergency rooms every year and they are even responsible for some deaths as well. Most of the accidents take place when children are two years old.

The research published in the journal Pediatrics has found that the most common injury place due to tricycles is on head. Most of kids showing up at the emergency rooms had cuts and some had internal damage.

Study researchers said that most deaths take place when children on tricycles fell into swimming pools when they are riding it unsupervised. Therefore, it is very important for parents to keep a tab on their children if they have tricycles.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is conducting an investigation on four Defense Department labs in a matter of mishandling deadly germs that are used by federal government in their bioterrorism research.

The military studies germs like anthrax, plague and viruses. The research is carried out to know how to defend against the potential use of biological weapons. Currently, there is no report that anyone has been affected due to the mishandling.

But the investigation is being carried out as the bioterrorism experts they have zero tolerance for such incidents, as these organisms are quite dangerous. The CDC investigation led the secretary of the Army to order the four labs to stop working on certain dangerous microbes known as select agents.