Washington, Feb 14 : A new study has found that male humpback whales favor the largest females.

Female humpback whales are usually larger than males to begin with, measuring up to around 50 feet long and weighing approximately 79,000 pounds.

"While obesity is understandably a serious problem in humans, it is interesting to find that in some of the largest animals ever to exist, bigger is indeed better. Thus size does matter!" lead author Adam Pack, an assistant professor of psychology and biology at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, told Discovery News.

Washington, Feb 14 : Gwyneth Paltrow just does not know how her role will be in Iron Man sequel, for movie bosses are not revealing any details about the project.

The actress, married to rocker Chris Brown, played Tony Stark''s faithful assistant and love interest Pepper Potts in the 2008 comic book blockbuster, opposite Robert Downey Jr.

Although Paltrow will reprise her role in the sequel, she has no idea about the proposed plot for the new movie, as studio executives are keeping it all under wraps.

Washington, Feb 14 : A climate researcher has accused the mass media in failing to cover the sensitive issue of global warming in the right manner.

"Business managers of media organizations, you are screwing up your responsibility by firing science and environment reporters who are frankly the only ones competent to do this," said climate researcher and policy analyst Stephen Schneider, in assessing the current state of media coverage of global warming and related issues.

Schneider is calling for the news media to employ trained reporters in covering global warming.

Lahore, Feb. 14 : The United States has reiterated that tension between India and Pakistan can only be diffused if Islamabad comes down hard on the terror camps operative on its soil.

US Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair said the key for establishing peace in the region was with Islamabad, which has to sincerely carry out an all-out effort to crackdown on terrorists.

Washington, Feb 14 : Former President George W Bush was saved by just 24 days from running up a five trillion dollar government debt, but his presidency saw the biggest increase in the national debt as compared to the reign of earlier presidents.

The latest posting on the Department of the Treasury website shows the national debt just hit 10.759-trillion dollars. And that 5-trillion dollars and change more than it was on the day President Bush took office on January 20, 2001, the CBS News reported.

Washington, Feb. 14 : A top US official has revealed that the unmanned Predator aircrafts which have been targeting militant hideouts in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) bordering Afghanistan, are flown from an airbase inside Pakistan's territory.

Chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein, said CIA's unmanned aircrafts are being operated from an airbase inside Pakistan.

"As I understand it, these are flown out of a Pakistani base," The Daily Times quoted Feinstein, as saying.