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Popular Aussie comedian Akmal Saleh is going to make new campaign called "It's time to tell Mum". He is now taking the fight over the Rudd government's mandatory internet filter to the children.

The campaign has been launched on this morning by Electronic Frontiers Australia. This campaign exactly aims to warn ordinary people that the controversial ISP filter won't protect families against any online dangers.

It has been reported that researchers in Seattle question the outcomes of studies that used distance to supermarkets as the best predictor of good diets.

According to the reports, Adam Drewnowski, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington and his team combined a telephone survey, modeled on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System, with geo-coding techniques and spatial analysis to study where people bought food.

BP has said that it had a plan to pump mud into the broken oil well and then try to stop the flow of oil from the well caused by an explosion of a rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

This operation is named as 'top kill'. US is backing BP for the top kill procedure which has not done yet in a such depth of water.

BP has been in tremendous pressure to succeed in this plan after the failure of previous attempts to stop the leakage.

U. S. researchers have said that from January 2008 to December 2009, local health departments lost 23,000 jobs, or 15 percent of the local health department workforce.

Using survey results by the National Association of County and City Health Officials, the full report said 46 percent of the local health departments nationwide lost skilled people who protect the health of people in their communities.

According to the reports, Politicians, including President Barack Obama, support home-based care for the elderly, but the U. S. home care trade group says Medicare is a barrier to care.

Public officials embrace the aging-at-home concept, but the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees Medicare, advocates for policies and regulations that will restrict patient access to medical equipment, such as power wheelchairs and oxygen, says Tyler Wilson, president of the American Association for Homecare.

A bomb blast has killed six people and about 40 people were injured in the blast outside a theater in Stavropol of southern Russia. The bomb exploded on the street just about 15 minutes before the show was due to start and it has killed five women and a small girl aged 12.

Investigators have informed that the blast was carried out by explosive power of 200 to 250g of TNT.