London, September 19 : Medical experts have warned that antibiotic resistance is growing so enormously that it may become very difficult to carry out major surgeries, organ transplantation, and cancer chemotherapy in the near future.

In an editorial in the British Medical Journal, Professor Otto Cars and colleagues call for a concerted global response to address rising rates of bacterial resistance caused by the use and abuse of antibiotics.

They argue, if necessary steps are not taken to deal with this problem, "we will return to the pre-antibiotic era".

According to them, antibiotics’ use diminishes their ability to be used in the future, and such medications cannot be considered to be a renewable source.

London, September 19: An archaeological dig in Enderby, UK, has led to the disocvery of a small Roman rural cemetery containing six skeletons.

According to a report in Loughborough News, the human burials were found during an excavation at the new park and ride site alongside Iron Age, Roman and medieval finds including pottery, a denarius - a type of Roman silver coin, and a number of brooches.

Analysis of the skeletons, found close to the line of the former Fosse Way Roman road, will now take place to identify the gender, age at death, health and life style of the individuals they represent.

As the area has been cultivated since medieval times, the skeletons are in relatively poor condition.

London, September 19 : The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest particle collider, malfunctioned within hours of its launch, but its operator did not report the problem for a week.

According to a report in the Telegraph, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has revealed for the first time that a 30-tonne transformer that cools part of the collider broke, forcing physicists to stop using the particle collider just a day after starting it up last week.

London - An opinion poll published Friday showed that a majority of supporters of Britain's ruling Labour Party want Prime Minister Gordon Brown to stand down as leader.

The poll, published by The Independent newspaper, found that 54 per cent of Labour supporters would prefer someone else to lead them into the next general election, due by 2010.

The findings among rank-and-file Labour Party members are likely to increase the pressure on Brown ahead of Labour's annual party conference starting this weekend.

London - Former British prime minister Tony Blair said he is "a bit nervous" about starting a teaching post Friday at Yale University in the United States.

"I'm sort of a bit nervous for it, really," he told the university's Yale Daily News. "I was never a star student, and I'm coming along mixing with a whole lot of people who I'm sure are a whole lot more clever and smarter than I am."

At Yale, Blair is to lead a semester-long "faith and globalization" seminar.

On Wednesday, the officials revealed that Britain has categorized nine types of problem drinkers that include people who are depressed solo tipplers to extreme boozers. This initiative to identify problematic drinkers has been taken to deal with the country’s notorious binge-drinking culture.

In England’s northwest, the typical meaning of a night out is “getting drunk heavily.” So the authorities are aiming to set an information campaign here to change the attitude of people.

There are many types of problem drinkers which include de-stress drinkers, community drinkers, hedonistic drinkers macho drinkersand re-bonding drinkers.. To understand them better, let us see their definitions-

* De-stress drinkers- those who use alcohol to calm down at the end of a hard day.