United Nations, Sept 26: The US’ strikes on Pakistani soil were not eliminating terrorists, but actually serving to empower the forces against which Pakistan and America were fighting together, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari said in his UN address in New York last evening.

Washington, Sept 26 : Scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara have created a new nanoscale process that will ultimately help make computers smaller, faster, and more efficient.

The scientists have for the first time devised a technology, called block co-polymer lithography, to make square, nanoscale, chemical patterns -- from the bottom up -- that may be used in the manufacture of integrated circuit chips as early as 2011.

Led by Craig Hawker, materials professor and director of the Materials Research Laboratory at UCSB, with professors Glenn Fredrickson and Edward J. Kramer, the researchers have developed a novel process for creating features on silicon wafers that are between five and 20 nanometers thick.

Washington, Sept. 26: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his party colleagues have blasted Republican rival John McCain for backing out of talks aimed at finding a solution to the current meltdown on Wall Street.

Aides and officials attending a White House Summit meeting here on Thursday said the discussion ended badly, with Democrats fuming at House Republicans over their refusal to drop objections to the administration’s 700 billion dollar bail out proposal.

Washington, September 26 : Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have opened the door for significant improvements in the fuel efficiency of cars and aeroplanes by solving a century old engineering problem regarding how fluids—such as gasses and liquids—move. 

The researchers say that their new mathematical and experimental work can help predict where the airflow around a vehicle cannot keep up and will detach from it, a phenomenon scientifically known as aerodynamic separation.

Fluid flows affect everything in our world, from blood flow to geophysical convection, and, thus, engineers constantly seek ways of controlling separation in such flows to reduce losses and increase efficiency.

Washington, Sept. 26: The fate of the Bush administration's 700 billion dollar bailout package is still in suspense, even after the president met presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama, and Congressional leaders at the White House on Thursday.

The debate over the proposed bailout of the financial industry continued late into the night, with congressional Democrats saying they're still working toward an agreement and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke due to meet with lawmakers.

Washington, Sept 26 : The US and Pakistani troops exchanged fire along the Pak-Afghan border last evening, after Pakistanis reportedly fired shots at two American helicopters which, Pakistan claimed, had crossed into its border.

A top American military official said that the two American “OH-58 Kiowa” reconnaissance helicopters were not damaged and no casualties were reported.

American and NATO officials said that the two helicopters were flying about one mile inside Afghan airspace to protect an American and Afghan patrol on the ground when the aircraft were fired at by Pakistani troops stationed at a military checkpoint near the Tanai district in Khost Province. Small-caliber arms were used, added the officials.