Washington, Feb 9 : Biologists at the University of Utah, US, have discovered that young "right whales" learn from their mothers where to eat in the seas.
The new study used genetic and chemical isotope evidence to show that mothers teach their calves where to go for food.
"Southern right whales consume enormous amounts of food and have to travel vast distances to find adequate amounts of small prey," said study coauthor Jon Seger, professor of biology at the University of Utah.
"This study shows that mothers teach their babies in the first year of life where to go to feed in the immensity of the ocean," he added.
Washington, Feb. 9: Many Iraq veterans believe the U. S. is likely to have "soldiers in combat in Iraq until at least 2015.
According to a book written by Thomas E. Ricks, America's best-known defense correspondent, American forces would remain in danger past President Obama's terms, into his second term if he wins reelection or the 45th presidency if he doesn't.
Ricks, the author of the best selling "Fiasco," offers that grim forecast in a new book being published Tuesday, "The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008".
Washington, Feb 9 : The United States wants to continue drone strikes inside Pakistan's tribal areas as American defence experts believe that the strikes have killed a large number of al Qaeda leaders and local militants and destroyed their hideouts.
The US account of the strikes conveyed to Pakistan depicts a picture, which is very different from the public perception in Pakistan that the strikes only kill innocent civilians and children.
London, Feb 9 : Pakistan is the nation that really "scares" US President Barack Obama and, it will be his administration's greatest foreign policy challenge: A nuclear-armed country hurtling towards chaos.
According to Obama's aides, Pakistan is the nation that really "scares" him. The country is threatened by a growing Islamist insurgency, economic collapse and a crisis of governance as it struggles to establish democratic rule, The Guardian reported.
London, Feb 9: In a new record, an American aged 56 has become the first woman to swim the Atlantic Ocean, after propelling herself across thousands of miles of ocean while inside a 6 metre by 4 metre cage to protect her from sharks.
According to a report in the Guardian, the woman in question is Jennifer Figge, an endurance athlete from Aspen, Colorado.
She took nearly a month to make the crossing from the Cape Verde Islands to Trinidad, propelling herself across 2,000 miles of ocean.
Islamabad, Feb 9: Pakistan will urge US special envoy Richard Holbrooke to adopt a regional approach to solve the prevailing issues of terrorism and extremism.
"We believe that not only Pakistan and Afghanistan, but the whole region is badly affected by terrorism and extremism and we hope that Ambassador Holbrooke would see the issue in the regional context," diplomatic sources said ahead of Holbrooke's visit to the region on Monday.
Washington, Feb. 9: Many Iraq veterans believe the U. S. is likely to have "soldiers in combat in Iraq until at least 2015.
Washington, Feb 9 : The United States wants to continue drone strikes inside Pakistan's tribal areas as American defence experts believe that the strikes have killed a large number of al Qaeda leaders and local militants and destroyed their hideouts.
London, Feb 9 : Pakistan is the nation that really "scares" US President Barack Obama and, it will be his administration's greatest foreign policy challenge: A nuclear-armed country hurtling towards chaos.
London, Feb 9: In a new record, an American aged 56 has become the first woman to swim the Atlantic Ocean, after propelling herself across thousands of miles of ocean while inside a 6 metre by 4 metre cage to protect her from sharks.
Islamabad, Feb 9: Pakistan will urge US special envoy Richard Holbrooke to adopt a regional approach to solve the prevailing issues of terrorism and extremism.
