Munich - Bayern Munich general manager Uli Hoeness refused to comment Saturday on re

Munich  - The longer young people watch television, the greater the risk of developing depression later in life, a US study shows.

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh recorded the number of hours 4,140 participants in the study watched television in the year 1995. They also recorded how long they played at the computer or listened to the radio. The average age of the participants was then 14.8 years, and there was no indication any of them had depression.

Munich - Bayern Munich are unlikely to sign US striker Landon Donovan after his period on loan ends next month, club chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has indicated.

"Donovan is an interesting player but if you have players like (Miroslav) Klose, (Luca) Toni and (Ivica) Olic under contract then we believe it's better to have a young player with prospects as a fourth striker," he told the Munich daily tz published Tuesday.

Coach Juergen Klinsmann has been an admirer of 26-year-old Donovan who is on loan from LA Galaxy until March 15.

Munich, Feb 15: A simulation developed by researchers has surprisingly suggested that it''s not always the fittest of the species that prevails; sometimes, the weakest can also become a winner.

The extinction of species is a consequence of their inability to adapt to new environmental conditions, and also of their competition with other species.

Besides selection and the appearance of new species, the possibility of adaptation is also one of the driving forces behind evolution.

According to the interpretation that has been familiar since Darwin, these processes increase the "fitness" of the species overall, since, of two competing species, only the fittest would survive.

Munich  - Avalanches Saturday on the German side of the Alps swept away seven men on skis and snowboards, killing one of them, police said.

A mass of snow came off the side of the Wallberg, a mountain in the Tegernsee alpine holiday region south of Munich, at about midday as three snowboarders and two skiers were making downhill runs in an area not marked out as ski lane.

One of the men, 20, was only partly covered and managed to scramble free and ski to a place where his mobile phone could make a connection so that he could call the emergency services.

Munich - An avalanche Saturday on the German side of Alps swept away five men using snowboards, killing one of them, police said.

The mass of snow came off the side of the Wallberg, a mountain in the Tegernsee alpine holiday region south of Munich, at about mid-day as the men were making downhill runs in an area not marked out as ski lane.