London, Oct 6 : Underground caves in which thousands of civilians took shelter from one of the heaviest Allied bombings of World War II have been re-discovered in northern France.

According to a report in the Telegraph, the time capsule labyrinth lies deep below the Normandy city of Caen, which was all but destroyed by British guns around D-Day, June 6th 1944.

Largely undisturbed since, the makeshift bunkers still contain numerous reminders of a terrified population whose only thought at the time was survival.

They include packed suitcases, tins of syrup, decaying maps and official passes, and even lady''s make-up bags including nail varnish and lipstick.

London, October 6 : Stanford University researchers have created a microscope that is small enough to be mounted to the head of a freely moving mouse to watch brain cell activity, and whole animal behaviour simultaneously.

The researchers say that their tiny microscope offers a new way to study human diseases using transgenic mice.

Project leader Mark Schnitzer says that the device weighs just 1.1 grams, and thus can be worn by a mouse without significantly impairing its movement.

Berlin - Fondly known to wartime squadron members in England as "Old Flo," the Halifax bomber met a violent end on January 20, 1944 when it was shot down by a German Messerschmidt fighter over Berlin.

The 102 Halifax squadron based at Pockington in Yorkshire had 15 aircraft taking part in raids on the German capital that night, of which seven were lost. It was the squadron's greatest single loss in bombing raids carried out in both world wars.

London - Britain's most senior military commander in Afghanistan has put a damper on hopes for victory in the fight against the radical Islamist Taliban.

The public should not expect a "decisive military victory," Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith said in an interview with the Sunday Times.

Although his troops had "taken the sting out" of the Taliban for 2008, "We will not win this war," he said. It had become necessary to "lower expectations," Carleton-Smith added.

London, Oct 5 : The international human rights body, Amnesty International (AI) has reportedly appealed to the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan and the US-led NATO security forces operating in Afghanistan to provide safe passage and rehabilitation to the people displaced due to the ongoing shelling and air strikes on tribal areas along the Pak-Afghan border.

It called for immediate assistance to all such displaced people.

London, Oct 5 : Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has accused Democratic presidential candidate of hobnobbing with terrorists and appealed to her countrymen not to trust him.

She accused Obama for having links with Bill Ayres, the former terrorist-turned-education professor whose “Weather Underground” group had bombed the Pentagon in the 1960s, and with whom Obama worked on community projects in the mid-1990s.