On Sunday a well known paper put forward the latest piece of news that Microsoft Corp is mulling to provide new programs and services for mobile phones, including an "online bazaar" for software.

The report published in the paper said that the online bazaar would be for phones running Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system.

It said, "Microsoft will also soon offer its latest version of Windows Mobile, which the report said would have a more sophisticated interface."

Despite efforts of scientists all over the world there has been no cure for AIDS. The U. S. government is motivating scientists to find a cure against HIV. The need to find a new cure for this deadly disease has been intensified after Merck & Co.'s Ad5 vaccine, the most promising effort to date that flopped in 2007. HIV virus affects 2.7 million new patients each year

Los Angeles  - The mother of the woman who gave birth to octuplets has slammed her daughter's actions as "unconscionable" and said that the single mother has no way to support the babies and her six other children.

Angela Suleman made the comments to the website radaronline. com as her daughter Nadya Suleman showed the babies for the first time in an interview with NBC Monday morning.

New York  - Plunging demand and restructuring costs eroded earnings for the world's largest appliance maker Whirlpool Corp, which Monday reported a 75 per cent drop in profits to 44 million dollars in the final quarter of 2008.

Revenues fell by 19 per cent to 4.3 billion dollars due to the increasing strength of the dollar, which made exports less attractive, the company said.

New York  - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg presented Monday the keys to the city to the five-member crew of US Airways Flight 1549 that crashed in the Hudson River last month without endangering the lives of the 150 passengers.

Bloomberg presented the keys at a City Hall ceremony, calling the crew "five real American heroes."

"That day could have been one of our most tragic, but became one of our most triumphant," Bloomberg said.

New York - Hasbro Inc, the worlds second-largest toymaker, reported a 30 per cent decline in fourth quarter profits compared to the year before, despite the burst of new products from the Star Wars and Transformers films.

Net earnings dropped to 93.6 million dollars. Revenues were down 5 per cent to 1.23 billion dollars from 1.3 billion dollars.