Washington, Sep 23 : Republican presidential candidate John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin disagree on the question of climate change, as the Alaska Governor has focused on how to adapt to global warming rather than how to combat it.
Palin has publicly questioned scientists’ near-consensus that human activity plays a role in the rising temperatures, the Washington Post reported.
She fought the administration’s listing of polar bears as threatened with extinction because of shrinking sea ice.
London, Sept 23: The recent US’ raids inside Pakistani territory aimed at eliminating suspected terrorists but killed innocent civilians in the action, led to Saturday’s hotel blast in Islamabad killing 60 people, Pakistan's ambassador to the UK Wajid Shamsul Hassan, has said.
“We hope the US will change policy because this is what is needed,” The Independent quoted Hassan as saying.
Miranshah, Sept 23 : Despite repeated utterances from Pakistan to the US to stop air raids on its territory, unmanned US’ drones were seen hovering over different areas of North Waziristan even on Monday night.
Quoting sources, The News reported that drones flew over Ghulam Khan, Danday, Darpakhel, Hamzoni, Dattakhel, Mir Ali and Razmak along Pak-Afghan border and different areas of North Waziristan including Miranshah.
The sources further said situation was tense in the area amid drones’ flights.
Washington, Sep 23: Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s campaign and his supporter at a rally have separately accused the press of favoring his Democratic rival Barack Obama.
McCain’s top strategist called The New York Times (NYT) a “pro-Obama advocacy organization,” FOX News reported.
Washington, Sept 23 : Ever wondered why a song sounds sexy sometimes and annoying at other times? Well, a study on songbirds has shed new light on this question, showing that a change in hormone levels may affect the way we perceive social cues.
Emory University’s Donna Maney, who used white-throated sparrows for the study, says that the changes in hormone levels affect the perception by altering a system of brain nuclei, common to all vertebrates, called the ‘social behaviour network.’
"Social behaviours such as courtship, parenting and aggression depend primarily on two factors: a social signal to trigger the behaviour, and a hormonal milieu that facilitates or permits it," said the study leader.
Washington, September 23 : A long-term study of mammal fossils spanning a 5-million-year period in northern Pakistan has suggested that two species of giraffe, several rhinos and five elephant relatives, along with multitudes of rodents, bush pigs, horses, antelope and apes, once inhabited the region.
University of Michigan paleoecologist Catherine Badgley and coworkers conducted the study.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin disagree on the question of climate change, as the Alaska Governor has focused on how to adapt to global warming rather than how to combat it.
London, Sept 23: The recent US’ raids inside Pakistani territory aimed at eliminating suspected terrorists but killed innocent civilians in the action, led to Saturday’s hotel blast in Islamabad killing 60 people, Pakistan's ambassador to the UK Wajid Shamsul Hassan, has said.
Washington, Sep 23: Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s campaign and his supporter at a rally have separately accused the press of favoring his Democratic rival Barack Obama.
million-year period in northern Pakistan has suggested that two species of giraffe, several rhinos and five elephant relatives, along with multitudes of rodents, bush pigs, horses, antelope and apes, once inhabited the region.
