Washington, Oct 12: The heat shields used on the Apollo missions 35 years ago, are now being analyzed by NASA scientists to help with the development and engineering process of the next generation of exploration vehicles.

According to a report in Science Daily, scientists from NASA uncrated the heat shields used on the Apollo missions to help in the design of vehicles for the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle.

The Orion teams included members from both NASA''s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.

Washington, Oct 12 : Excavations at a 7,000-year-old archaeological site in New England, US, have found out that there was a village in the area, which is changing the way historians view the lifestyles of Archaic period (8000 BC – 1000 BC) Native Americans.

"Since they''ve done some digging, they found that there was a village there, which changes their whole thought process on the early people of this area," Richard Lang told, the owner of the 
14.2-acre waterfront site, told The Times Record. "They used to think Native Americans were just passing through, and now they think there was a settlement here," he added.

Washington - Members of the International Monetary Fund on Saturday "strongly endorsed" a promise by the world's advanced economies to do all they could to curb the ongoing financial crisis and restore confidence in global markets.

The IMF's top committee, which speaks for all 185 member countries, pushed for more coordination with developing countries that are beginning to feel the effects of the global credit crunch.

Washington - Members of the International Monetary Fund on Saturday "strongly endorsed" a promise by the world's advanced economies to do all they could to curb a financial crisis that has brought the world to the brink of a recession.

The IMF's 185 countries also pushed for more coordination with developing countries, which are beginning to feel the effects of the global credit crunch.

Washington - The world's 20 leading economies on Saturday endorsed actions by wealthier nations to stem a financial crisis that has spread to much of the world.

The Group of 20, a bloc that brings together developed and developing countries, committed to using "all the economic and financial tools to ensure the stability of financial markets," in a joint statement after an emergency meeting in Washington.

Washington - As wealthy nations deal with their own struggling economies, the World Bank launched a new fund Saturday to help emerging countries trade lessons amongst themselves.

The new programme was described as a "simple, low cost" means of helping developing economies learn about new ideas in their own back yards to help cut poverty, improve agriculture, manage their natural resources and improve political systems.

The first project is aimed at repeating in African countries India's rise to one of the world's largest dairy producers. Tanzanian, Ethiopian and Ugandan dairy farmers would travel to India to get new insights.