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Washington, Sept 14: Eating an apple a day during pregnancy will not only kept the doctor away for expecting mums, but it can also help lower the risk of their kids developing asthma and wheezing.

The finding is based on a study published in the September issue of the journal Thorax in which researchers found that when women ate apples during pregnancy, their offspring tended to have a significantly lower risk of asthma and wheezing when they reached the age of five.

Washington, Sept 14: A new study of cervical cancer patients has revealed that irrespective of being big or small, if a tumour glows brightly in a PET (positron emission tomography) scan, it is likely to be more dangerous than dimmer tumours.

The study conducted by Washington University School of Medicine researchers reveals that PET ‘can reliably identify patients who have a poorer prognosis’.

Washington, Sept 14: The Bush Administration’s former chief counter-terrorism adviser, Richard Clark, has claimed that Osama bin Laden is either in Yemen or Somalia, and not in Pakistan.

Durban: Pakistan pacer Mohammad Asif has said that he is well aware of the weaknesses of India‘s swashbuckling batsman Virender Sehwag, and he would try to get rid of the Delhi player early when the two sides meet in a Group D match of the Twenty20 World Championship here later today.

Aiming to continue the psychological advantage he has been enjoying over Sehwag for the last two years, Asif said, “I know his weaknesses very well, and I want to exploit them yet again.”

London: Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has said that she cannot be deported from Pakistan like Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) chief Nawaz Sharif.

Bhutto said that she did not know how she would be welcomed on her return to Pakistan, but was not in the same boat as Sharif.

The News quoted her as saying that Sharif had bargained for his release from imprisonment and other cases in exchange for living abroad with his family and the foreign guarantees were provided for this.

London: Sienna Miller has thrilled fans by stripping off for a fruity film role.

The 25-year-old actress wore nothing except a garland of flowers in her hair while shooting scenes for her new movie ‘Hippie Hippie Shake,’ in a garden in West London’s trendy Notting Hill Gate.

“She sat on the grass with the flowers in the hair and danced on the grass waving her hands. She looked simply gorgeous,” The Sun quoted an onlooker, as saying.