Rome - More than 120 countries party to the Rotterdam Convention on hazardous substances have agreed to add the pesticide tributyltin to a global trade "watch list," a United Nations agency said Monday.

Tributyltin (TBT) compounds are pesticides used in antifouling paints for ship hulls and are toxic to fish, molluscs and other aquatic organisms. The International Maritime Organization has moved to ban the use of antifouling paints containing TBT compounds.

Washington, Nov 3 : Want to get rid of your belly fat? Well, then all you need to do is follow the simple tips given in a new book, ‘The Flat Belly Diet’.

The book is written by Liz Vaccariello and Cynthia Sass, the editors of health magazine ‘Prevention’, reports CBS News.

Here are some tips that can help you get rid of belly fat:

1. Eat four 400-calorie meals per day

2. Never go more than four hours without eating

3. Incorporate monounsaturated fats or "MUFAS" into meals

London, Nov 3 : In a new study, scientists have uncovered a new pathway in which disease-causing bacteria dodge the host’s immune system to survive and grow in the cells that were to destroy them.

Led by Peter Murray, Ph. D., at St. Jude Children''s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., and Thomas Wynn, Ph. D., the discovery may pave the way for new treatments and vaccines for tuberculosis (TB) and some other chronic bacterial and parasitic infections.

London, Nov 3 : Almost all human genes, about 94 percent, generate more than one form of their protein products by skipping or including certain sequences from the messenger RNA, say MIT scientists.

The phenomenon, called alternative splicing, is much more prevalent and varies more between tissues than was previously believed.

Ten years ago, the scientists thought that the phenomenon was limited to only a few genes, but the figure reached to 50-plus percent more recently.

London, Nov 3 : Troubled English singer Amy Winehouse has managed to put some flesh on her bones after she started to follow a new healthy food diet and sweets.

Winehouse, 25, was seen looking much better with her fuller face and figure, and clear, glowing skin after she checked out of hospital, where she had been undergoing tests following a recent lung infection.

“Amy has had some time out of late, prioritizing her health and trying to get her life back on track,” the Mirror quoted a source as saying.

“She underwent various tests and scans in hospital, checking that her emphysema hadn''t returned, and was delighted to be given a clean bill of health.

Washington, Nov 3: A new study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has suggested that for working parents, having grandparents as caregivers can cut the risk of childhood injury roughly in half.

In the study, the researchers found that having a grandmother watch a child was associated with a decreased risk of injury for the child, compared to organized daycare or care by the mother or other relatives.

This is the first study to examine the relationship between grandparents'' care and childhood injury rates.