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To help fight rising obesity rates, health campaigners in Australia are calling for a new system of labeling on food products. The Obesity Policy Coalition argued that "daily intake'''' labels could not be taken as ''''standard'''' serving size for thousands of products.

Jane Martin, coalition senior adviser, said that consumers could also be potentially confused or misled since the daily guide system was based on wildly differing serving sizes.

The Age quoted Martin as saying,'' In many cases, I think the serves underestimate what people would actually eat.''

According to a police official, the main accused in a hooch tragedy that claimed at least 13 lives in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi district has been arrested along with a policeman.

Superintendent of Police (City) Vijay Bhushan told reporters in Varanasi, some 250 km from Lucknow," Bhonu, the main accused was nabbed along with a police constable Sunday evening from Nasedar locality."

He further added," During preliminary interrogation, Bhonu has confessed his crime and also told us that he used to bribe policemen on a regular basis to keep the illegal business flourishing."

Thanks to a British doctor, who believes a cure for such allergies could be available within the next three years, parents of children allergic to peanuts can now heave a sigh of relief.

The new study will help rid thousands of children of the potentially fatal disorder, said Dr Andrew Clark of Addenbrooke''s hospital in Cambridge, who is kicking off a 1-million-pound NHS sponsored research project on peanut allergy.

By using anti-retroviral treatments (ARVs) and mass screening, it is possible to stop the spread of AIDS in South Africa within five years, a top scientist has said.

"The cost of giving the drugs to almost six million HIV-positive patients in the country would be 2-3 billion dollars per year," said Dr Brian Williams, based at the South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis
(Sacema) in Stellenbosch.

He said that only about 30 percent get the life-saving drugs, but early detection and treatment would prevent transmission. This should be complementary to the search for an Aids vaccine.

After he was spotted with a gold ring on his wedding finger, Bond star Daniel Craig, is said to have secretly married Japanese girlfriend Satsuki Mitchell.

However, a spokesman for Craig refused to confirm, insisting that it was "a private matter". Mitchell, 30, also had a ring on the third finger of her left hand.

A provincial governor said on Monday that a NATO airstrike hit three vehicles in southern Afghanistan, killing 27 civilians, including women and children.

Sultan Ali Uruzgani told DPA that the incident took place Sunday in Dai Kundi province when three cars carrying the civilians were targeted from the air.

Adding further he said," In this attack, 27 people were killed, while ten others were injured."

The vehicles were en route to the southern province of Kandahar.