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Sydney, Oct 2 : Australia Zoo director Terri Irwin has been honoured with the Business Woman of the Year award.

The widow of the late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin accepted the award at a ceremony in Brisbane.

Holly Kramer, from sponsor Telstra, said that the judges were impressed Terri’s
strong business expertise.

"The judges said Terri Irwin demonstrated strong business acumen across all criteria and commended her on her entrepreneurial achievements which she pursued from a young age," News.com.au quoted Kramer, as saying.

Washington, October 2 : A team of researchers from the University of Michigan Medical School have found that the cells that make insulin in the body of people with diabetes may stop this task because of glitches in the production of a molecule called proinsulin, the precursor out of which insulin is made.

A human rights report has indicated that over four lakh children, mostly girls and under 18, are involved as child labour in India’s cottonseed fields. The report stated that around 4,16,000 children under 18, nearly half of which are less than 14 years, are doing work in the States of Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

Washington: EBay, online auction giant has declared that it is replacing the creator and chief executive of its Skype online telephone arm and would take a charge of 1.43 billion dollars two years after buying the company.

New Delhi: Steel Authority of India Ltd, State-run steel manufacturer has decided to invest around Rs 1,000 crore on establishing at least three greenfield pellet plants amounting 6 million tons to raise its production capacitance to over 24 million tons by the end of the 11th Plan.

Washington, Oct 2 : A new study, from researchers at the University of Virginia Health System has shed light on how cells respond to skin-damaging UV rays.

The researchers have revealed that a protein inside the body, called SOCS7, helps cells to protect themselves (or not) from DNA damage caused by ultraviolet rays.

It is known that UV rays can cause major skin problems, ranging from skin cancer to sunburns and premature wrinkles.