Washington, Feb 27: Scientists have found ancient footprints in Kenya that show some of the earliest humans walked like us and did so on anatomically modern feet 1.5 million years ago.

This anatomical interpretation is the conclusion of Rutgers Professor John W. K. Harris and an international team of colleagues.

From 2006 to 2008, the field school group of mostly American undergraduates, including Rutgers students, excavated the site yielding the footprints.

The footprints were discovered in two 1.5 million-year-old sedimentary layers near Ileret in northern Kenya.

These rarest of impressions yielded information about soft tissue form and structure not normally accessible in fossilized bones.

Washington, Feb 27: Chas W. Freeman Jr., picked by the Obama Administration to head the National Intelligence Council, is a veteran former diplomat who heads a think tank that has received major financing from Saudi Arabia.

The appointment of Freeman Jr., who served as US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia during the 1991 Gulf War and has major expertise regarding China.

Washington, Feb 27 : `Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II', the final film in the hit series, will be released in 2011, it has emerged.

Warner Bros has announced that the last instalment is to be released on July 15th 2011.

The studios decided to split the seventh book in JK Rowling''s series into two parts, as it was impossible to cram its 608 pages into a single film.

Therefore, the first instalment will hit screens in November 2010, reports Contactmusic.

Washington, Feb 27: Immoral behaviour really does leave a "bad taste in the mouth", claims a new study, which found that disgust over an unfair social situation is hard-wired into the human body as strongly as the reaction to a foul taste.

The University of Toronto study shows a link between moral disgust and more primitive forms of disgust related to poison and disease.

"Morality is often pointed to as the pinnacle of human evolution and development," says lead author Hanah Chapman, a graduate student in the Department of Psychology.

Washington, February 27: Scientists at Georgetown University Medical Center claim to have achieved a significant breakthrough in showing what brain activity looks like when someone anticipates any action.

Writing about their work in the Journal of Neuroscience, the researchers say that this neural clairvoyance involves strong activity in brain areas that are responsible for preparing the body to move.

Washington, February 27: People who invest in high-risk stocks that offer a meagre chance of high return have the same socio-economic characteristics as lottery players, according to new research from The University of Texas at Austin.

Alok Kumar, assistant professor of finance at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, came to this conclusion after studying the demographics and financial transactions of 70,000 anonymous investors.