Washington: Receiver of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009, US President Barack Obama, would like to donate his prize money of USD 1.4 million, to charity, White House has said.
“He (Obama) mentioned specifically to me on Friday that the (prize) money would be donated to charity,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
“There will be a process to evaluate that, from his perspective. I assume it will be many different charities. But he has not told me or anybody else here the specifics of what those might be,” he said.
Gibbs, however, said the US President has not told anybody to what charities the money would go.
New York: Head of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control’s preparedness and response unit, Denis Coulombier, warned that a second wave of swine flu infections could be expected within weeks.
“We had a period of anxiety because the first phase developed very, very quickly and the situation was unclear in Mexico” Denis said.
“For several days, we were not very clear ourselves about the severity of the virus. But more facts emerged very quickly, and we realized the virus was circulating in the United States and therefore had been around for a while.”
He further adds, “We did well to prepare in the way we did. We must always prepare for the worst plausible scenario and the work that was done indicated the possibility of a very severe pandemic. So we did not make a mistake with our preparations, and the evolution (of the pandemic) is down to chance.”
At least 4,525 people have died from swine flu since April and there have been more than 378,223 laboratory-confirmed cases globally, according to the World Health Organization.
California: The Swine flu scare isn’t gone yet a recent report says that Asthma conditions dominated in the hospitalized patients in 10 states that too in the severe cases of H1N1 influenza.
Also other chronic conditions include anemia, sickle cell cerebral palsy and/or muscular dystrophy among the children having the infection.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was working on the most common conditions in H1N1 patients. The epidemiologists took about 1,400 people who were 18 or more and 500 children in 10 states. These states are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Oregon and Tennessee.
This report concluded that 26% had asthma, about 10 % were having diabetes, with 8% showing chronic lung disease like emphysema and about 7.6% had immunosuppressed from fatal diseases like cancer, HIV or some other ailment along with about 6.1% were pregnant as well as with heart disease.
Kabul: America marks the eighth anniversary of being at war in Afghanistan this week. It is an anniversary that comes amid intense debate over America’s place in the country and its current strategy.
In the mean time, a massive attack on US troops in a remote part of east Afghanistan has added more heat to the debate about the level of American engagement in the country.
At least eight American soldiers and several Afghan police officers were killed when hundreds of Taliban militants launched a daylight attack with mortars and machines guns on their compounds.
The commander of US troops wants another 40,000 soldiers added to the 68,000 already on duty there, a decision US President Barack Obama is considering.
Brigadier General Eric Tremblay is the spokesman for the International Security Assistance Forces. When he spoke to reporters on the weekend, the battle was still going on.
Washington: The New York Times reported on Saturday that Iran has data to make atom bomb.
In the mean time, Iran, which rejects Western charges that it is seeking to build nuclear weapons, held talks with six world powers in Geneva on Thursday.
Meanwhile, a confidential analysis by staff of the U.N. nuclear watchdog has concluded that Iran has acquired “sufficient information to be able to design and produce” an atom bomb.
The Times report was posted on its website hours after Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, arrived in Tehran for talks on a timetable for inspectors to visit a newly disclosed unfinished nuclear enrichment plant.
Western officials said that in the talks, Iran had agreed “in principle” to ship out most of its enriched uranium for reprocessing in Russia and France.
Washington: US president Barack Obama today said America has its roots in the India of Mahatma Gandhi, as the world celebrates International Day of Non-violence.
Obama said on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Americans owe enormous gratitude to Gandhi, he said.
He said, “His teachings and ideals, shared with Martin Luther King Jr. on his 1959 pilgrimage to India, transformed American society through our civil rights movement.”
The America of today has its roots in the India of Mahatma Gandhi and the non-violent social action movement for Indian independence, which he led, Obama said in a statement.
On behalf of the American people, Obama said he wants to express appreciation for the life and lessons of Mahatma Gandhi on the anniversary of his birth.
‘This is an important moment to reflect on his message of non-violence, which continues to inspire people and political movements across the globe’, he said.
Obama called for students to take responsibility and to learn from their failures so that they succeed in the end. “
Washington: President Barack Obama is an ardent fan of Mahatma Gandhi. He said America has its “roots in the India of Mahatma Gandhi,” on 140th birth anniversary of the father of the nation.
Noting that Americans owe enormous gratitude to Gandhi, Obama said the “America of today has its roots in the India of Mahatma Gandhi and the nonviolent social action movement for Indian independence which he led”.
In a special message on Gandhi Jayanthi, which is observed as the International Day of Non-violence, Obama said: “We must renew our commitment to live his ideals and to celebrate the dignity of all human beings.”
“Gandhi’s teachings and ideals, shared with Martin Luther King Jr. on his 1959 pilgrimage to India, transformed American society through our civil rights movement,” Obama, who is inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, said.
Samoa: There is no hope for missing in Samoa tsunami as the toll rises further. According to the reports its feared death toll climbed toward 190.
In the mean time, emergency workers Thursday gave up hope of finding more survivors from the horrific Samoan tsunami.
While thousands of homeless huddled in makeshift hillside camps, officials said the massive international aid effort had switched from rescuing people to recovering bloated corpses.
“It’s no longer a rescue effort, its more like recovery and finding out what’s happened in some remote villages,” a Samoan disaster management official told AFP.
“There are a lot of homeless people, thousands probably. Eighteen percent of the entire population is affected in some way.”
Researchers have found an ancient ape-like creature that may be a direct ancestor to our species. It is a 4.4-million-year-old animal called Ardipithecus ramidus as reported in the journal Science.
Fossils of A. ramidus were first found in Ethiopia in 1992, but its significance is revealed after 17 years. The most important specimen is a partial skeleton of a female nicknamed “Ardi”.
The international team has recovered key bones, including the skull with teeth, arms, hands, pelvis, legs, and feet.
Professor Tim White from the University of California at Berkeley, who was a part of the team who conducted the research, said that it was a painstaking effort to clean the bones in the National Museum of Ethiopia.”
He added further that “It would be then to restore the skeleton to its original dimensions and form and then study and compare it with all the other fossils that are known from Africa and elsewhere as well as with modern age.”
PlayStation users will be happy to hear now they have more titles to choose and download from for a great gaming experience.
Sony’s unveiling of 100 handheld games takes place around the same time as the launch of PSPgo.
Gamers can avail these game titles for PSPgo for as low as $9.99 to as high as $39.99. More than 90 titles of the 100 released are in UMD disc format.
In order to find a comprehensive list of all available games, gamers can check out the official PlayStation blog.
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