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Washington: The American Cancer Society has reported that the mortality rate from breast cancer continue to decline over 2% annually, but black women are not seeing the equal benefits as white and Hispanic women.

Tuesday was a big day for Rahul Gandhi. A day after the Congress appointed Rahul Gandhi as the new party general secretary; the Amethi MP attended office followed by his mother and party president Sonia Gandhi.

But Rahul is not likely to assume duties at once because he is going to New York with his mother. Sonia Gandhi will lecture the UN General Assembly on October 2, to honor the International Day of Non-Violence.

New Delhi: A 25-year-old doctor working with the Employees’ State Insurance Scheme (ESIS) hospital in west Delhi has been allegedly gangraped by three persons and left half dead on September 20.

The police said, “The authorities of the hospital reported that general physician and resident doctor was found unconscious and brutally injured as a result of gang rape at the Raja Garden hostel of the state-run ESI hospital on Thursday night. She was admitted to the emergency ward in the same hospital.”

Hyderabad: The United States Space Research centre NASA aspires to put a man and set up a space civilisation on Mars by 2037. While addressing the 58th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Michael Griffin, Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said, “We have a long-term plan to put a man on Mars by 2037.”

Islamabad, Sep 26 : The Pakistan Government has defended the arrests of opposition activists opposing the re-election of President Pervez Musharraf in the wake of an unusually harsh statement by the US over the developments.

The US embassy in Pakistan on Monday said that the arrest of opposition leaders as "extremely disturbing and confusing for the "friends of Pakistan", and urged the Musharraf regime to free the detained men.

Sydney, Sept.26 : A child expert has warned both Shane Warne and his ex-wife Simone Callahan to end their public feud over an alleged affair for the sake of their three children.

The Australian Counselling Association's Philip Armstrong said the Warne's tit-for-tat claims over the end of their relationship could damage their children Brooke, 10, Jackson, 8 and Summer, 5.

Armstrong was particularly scathing of the tell-all interview Simone gave to New Idea about an alleged affair revealed by yet another wayward text message.