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U.S. researchers have discovered a gene, which keeps mice and fruit flies lean that might offer a means to put a stop to obesity and diabetes in people.

In the journal Cell Metabolism, the researchers reported that the gene, detected over 50 years ago in fruit flies, makes mice fat when tweaked in one direction and thin when manipulated in a different way.

Los Angeles: Oscar-winning screen star Halle Berry confirmed the entertainment news program that she is expecting her first child with partner Gabriel Aubry.

Berry, who won the 2001 Academy Award for Best Actress in Monster’s Ball, said she was three months into her pregnancy.

Hyderabad: Rohit Reddy, the three-and-a-half-year-old son of a software engineer couple, was abducted from Kondapur on Tuesday at 4.30 pm by three men when he was playing in the premises of Sanskruti Vidya Mandir, hardly 200 yards from his house. The kidnappers came there in a black Qualis. While one of them entered the school and made Rohit sit on the parapet wall and the other one picked the boy and put him in the Qualis and the gang flew.