Washington, Feb 26 : Ranbaxy Laboratories, India's largest drug manufacturer, manipulated data and laboratory tests for generic drugs that had been approved for sale in the United States at its Himachal Pradesh facility, the US Food and Drug Administration has said.

Washington, Feb 26 : High School Musical hero Zac Efron, who plays a cool star onscreen, wasn't a real-life heartthrob growing up.

"I was average," People quoted him, as admitting in the April issue of Family Circle.

"I had a lot of friends but I was not in that ultracool circle. I was a bit of a class clown. I guess to get through the tedium of the quadratic formula, I thought everyone was fair game," he added.

Washington, Feb 26 : Women who are fertile for more than 39 years and have natural menopause are at a lower risk of contracting Parkinson's disease, says a new study.

The study, which will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 61st Annual Meeting in Seattle, April 25 to May 2, 2009, provides evidence that longer exposure to the body's own hormones may protect women from the disease.

Washington, February 26 : Pop diva Britney Spears’ ex-boyfriend, photographer Adnan Ghalib, has surrendered to face felony charges for allegedly trying to run over a process server, who was attempting to serve a restraining order obtained by the singer’s father.

The 36-year-old’s surrender came on Wednesday, a day after an arrest warrant was issued against him, reports People magazine.

He pleaded innocent in a Van Nuys Superior Court, and was released on 110,000-dollar bail.

New Delhi, Feb 26 : The US State Department has interfered with the internal affairs of China and some other countries again, groundlessly criticizing them in its 2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices presented to the US Congress on Wednesday.

The report turned a blind eye to the efforts and historic achievements China has made in human rights that have been widely recognized by the international community, Xianhua reported.

It willfully ignored and distorted basic facts, assailing China's human rights conditions and making random and irresponsible remarks on China's ethnic, religious and legal systems.

Washington  - The first comprehensive list of Jews who were living in Germany when the Nazis came to power was given to a US museum on Wednesday, providing a detailed picture of the population before the Holocaust.

German culture minister Bernd Neumann gave the list of Jewish residents in Germany from 1933 to 1945 to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in a ceremony in Washington on Wednesday.

From some 2.5 million pages of data, about 600,000 people of the Jewish faith have been identified so far. The directory is to be continuously updated with information from the German national archives, and will be being used for historical purposes as well as for family research.