New York, Oct. 13: A boom in voter registration across America has raised the possibility of a landslide victory for Senator Barack Obama, with an overwhelming majority of the nine million new voters believed to favour the Democratic candidate.

According to the New York Times, with electoral rolls now closed in most states, Obama has a clear advantage among first-time registrants, many of whom are under 30 or African Americans. The big question mark over new voters is how many of them will show up on November 4.

Washington, Oct. 13 : Does your subconscious think Obama is Foreign? Yes, if you go by the findings of two American psychologists – Mahzarin Banaji and Thierry Devos.

According to a series of three experiments undertaken by them, people are increasingly using ethnicity as a proxy to establish American identity and equating whites, even white foreigners, with things American.

Washington, Oct 13 : A new imaging technology, known as optical coherence tomography (OCT), has been shown to be the best tool for diagnosing vulnerable plaque in coronary arteries, say researchers.

Vulnerable plaque (VP) has been identified as a possible cause of sudden cardiac death, most of which occurs in patients with no history of heart disease.

VP has an underlying lipid-rich core covered by a thin fibrous cap, which is very difficult to visualize, and is considered to be a major step in detecting and treating the condition.

Washington, Oct 13 : Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has said that the inquiry report into the firing of Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan had “vindicated” her action, even though the first part of the report said that she had “broken the state''s ethics law” as Alaska Governor in the scandal dubbed “Troopergate”.

Washington, Oct. 13 : Conservative Americans are of the view that Republican presidential candidate John McCain has blown his chances of securing the White House.

According to the New York Times, the Right can only be depressed as they watch Obama buoyed by a world credit crisis and the deep unpopularity of a president who campaigned but never governed like a conservative.

It''s the perfect combination to make a president out of an inexperienced, far-left politician whose background provides a gold mine for any opposition researcher.

Miranshah, Oct 13 : Tribesmen in MIranshah said that barely hours after a missile strike killed at least four people, they saw US’ pilotless spy planes hovering over North Waziristan on Sunday.