London, October 25 : In the run up to the presidential election in the United States, a research team has come up with a personality test that can help find out whether an individual is fit for the Oval Office.

The new approach tests five big factors of personality—namely neuroticism, extroversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness—as well as their sub-factors.

So far, it has been used to make psychological assessments of all 41 US presidents prior to George W. Bush, and to rank them eight different types, from "dominators" to "actors".

More recently, the same tool was used to profile John McCain, Rudolf Guiliani, and Hillary Clinton. Unfortunately, the analysis did not include Barack Obama.

London, Oct 25 : A new study has suggested that an unusual pair of craters on Mars formed when a moon broke apart before crashing into the planet’s surface about a billion years ago.

According to a report in New Scientist, the alignment of two oval-shaped craters on Mars – one spanning 10 km and the other, 3 km – hints they might have been gouged out by a fallen moon that broke apart in the Red Planet’s atmosphere.

The two craters, which lie about 12.5 kilometers apart, share the same oval shape and nearly the same west-east alignment.

On the sets of Vipul Shah's Latest film 'London Dreams', the British Film Minister Barbara Follet formally declared the signing of the Bilateral Treaty with Bollywood, under which Indian Producers shall benefit from Tax Concessions, can acquire fresh funding sources and also get easy practical support .The Minister met Ajay Devgan who along with Asin are the lead pair to avail the facility of the treaty as shooting started much before the deal was finalized.

London, Oct 25 : Scientists at the Riken Brain Science Institute, in Wako, Japan, have found that birds that come from the earlier eggs in a brood are more likely to be better singers.

Most male birds use songs to show their fitness to potential mates, and previous studies have demonstrated that the healthiest males tend to sing the longest, loudest and most complex songs.

Masayo Soma and her colleagues from the Riken Brain Science Institute wanted to find out if the order in which birds hatch affects their song.

"I expected to detect age hierarchy in song, because older siblings are stressed less and obtain more resources growing up," Nature quoted Soma, as saying.

London - British music company EMI reported a loss of 757 million pounds (1.2 billion dollars) in its first year as part of the private equity group Terra Firma, news reports said Saturday.

Revenues dropped by 19 per cent to 1.46 billion pounds in the business year ending on March 31, according to earnings data released the previous day in an annual review by Maltby Capital, through which investor Guy Hands' Terra Firma owns EMI Music.

European Medicines Agency reports that Acomplia, an anti-obesity drug, with Rimonabnt as its active substance, doubles the risk of psychiatric disorders. 

Licensed in Europe since 2006 and available on the NHS since June 2008, it has been prescribed to 97,000 people in the UK, but as benefits no longer outweigh the risks, doctors have been advised not to prescribe it any longer.