Washington, Mar. 10: President Barack Obama''s Wikipedia page has been edited to remove any mention of his links to former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers and Reverend Jeremiah Wright, though pages for Ayers and Wright are heavily peppered with references to the president, including subsections on both pages that detail their past affiliations with him.

Washington, Mar. 10: The five detainees at Guantánamo Bay charged with planning the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have filed a document with the military commission at the United States naval base there expressing pride at their accomplishment and accepting full responsibility for the killing of nearly 3,000 people.

The document, which may be released publicly on Tuesday, uses the Arabic term for a consultative assembly in describing the five men as the “9/11 Shura Council,” and it says their actions were an offering to God.

Washington, Mar 10: As part of a breakthrough in human genetics, Netherlands scientists can now predict with 90 percent accuracy if a person has blue or brown eyes by analysing DNA from only 6 different positions of the genome.

Manfred Kayser of the Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam led the study.

Human eye colour, which is determined by the extent and type of pigmentation on the eye''s iris, is what geneticists call a ''complex trait''. This means that several genes control, which colour the eyes, will ultimately have.

Washington, March 10: New findings have shown that some sources of dust that is deposited in oceans also carry toxic elements that can kill marine algae.

Dust blown off the continents and deposited in the open ocean is an important source of nutrients for marine phytoplankton, the tiny algae that are the foundation of the ocean food web.

But, in a study of how phytoplankton respond to atmospheric aerosols deposited in the northern Red Sea, researchers have discovered the toxic effects that some sources of dust can have on the marine algae.

Washington, Mar 10 : Actress Jennifer Aniston has revealed that she still considers her `Friends' co-stars `family'.

Even though the group including David Schwimmer, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc and Lisa Kudrow rarely has time to meet up, Aniston says they'll always be family.

However, the 40-year-old star has remained good friends with Cox since the comedy series ended in 2004.

Washington, Mar 10: A new study, led by Lobke Vaanholt (University of Groningen, The Netherlands), has cast significant doubt on the theory that a higher metabolism means a shorter lifespan.

In the study, the researchers found that mice with increased metabolism live just as long as those with slower metabolic rates.

The theory that fast-living animals die young, known as the rate-of-living theory, was first proposed in the 1920s.

The faster you expend energy, the faster you age, and the sooner you die. It remained a prominent theory of aging until recently, when comparisons across broad animal groups cast doubt on it.