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Latest updates on Wednesday, 19th October, 2011
UK sent 'child soldiers' to battlefronts in Iraq and Afghanistan despite govt. ban
London, Oct 19 : British military chiefs reportedly sent four child soldiers to war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan despite a Government ban.Web commerce hack attack may 'happen again', says security system inventor
London, Oct.19 : The creator of the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology that is used to keep many different types of web transaction safe, has warned that this key web security system is no better defended now than when hackers undermined it in September.US warding off 'clearly defined terms of engagement' sought by anxious Pakistan
Islamabad, Oct 19: Pakistan is awaiting a nod from the United States to its proposal seeking clearly defined new terms of engagement for cooperation in the ongoing war on terror.Historic India-UAE prisoner transfer deal on the cards
Dubai, Oct.19 : An agreement between India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) allowing prisoner transfers between both countries is in the offing.Shift work ups teens' MS risk
Washington, Oct 19 : Teenagers who engage in shift work may be at risk for multiple sclerosis due to a disruption in their circadian rhythm and sleep pattern, Swedish researchers say.Dr. Anna Karin Hedstrom and colleagues from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm analyzed data from two population-based studies-one with 1343 incident cases of MS and 2900 controls and another with 5129 prevalent MS cases and 4509 controls.
The team compared the occurrence of MS among study subjects exposed to shift work at various ages against those who had never been exposed. All study subjects resided in Sweden and were between the ages of 16 and 70. Shift work was defined as permanent or alternating working hours between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m.