Obama names surprise World Bank candidate Jim Yong Kim

President Obama has nominated Korean-born US academic Jim Yong Kim to be the next president of the World Bank. Dr Kim is a leading figure in global health. As well as his work at the WHO, he co-founded the health organization Partners in Health in 1987.The World Bank confirmed that there are three candidates with the other two coming from Nigeria and Colombia.

 

 

 

Paul Farmer, a friend of Dr Kim's and the chair of the Department of Global Health at Harvard University, praised the nomination. With the US holding the most votes at the World Bank, which has 187 members, the vote on the next president should be a formality. A US citizen has led the Bank since it was founded in 1944, but developing nations say it is time for change.

James Cameron gets prepared to jump to the Mariana Trench

Hollywood director James Cameron can be close to making a dive to the deepest place on Earth. Mr. Cameron and his team have put sail to arrive at the ditch and are now waiting for an obvious stretch of weather to begin the dive. The team is doing everything they can to create the associate as secure as they possibly can except the climate is out of their control.

Australian engineer Ron Allum, who co-designed the sub with Mr. Cameron, is a specialist at creating rigs that join hi-tech cameras to submersibles. Still the life-support scheme has a dramatic linkage: its project manager John Garvin spent years playing the lead in the hit melodic Buddy.  Mr. Cameron and his team have spent the last few days in Guam, docked at the port, re-supplying the ship that has been their home for the last few months.

Electroconvulsive therapy: turns down overactive association

According to the Aberdeen researcher’s Electroconvulsive therapy for the cruelly miserable works by turning down an overactive association among areas of the intellect. The University of Aberdeen team hopes the conclusion can assist treatment. In the opinion of researcher’s for the first time we can point to something that ECT does in the intelligence that makes sense in the framework of what we think is wrong in people who are depressed.

 

The theory has suggested a hyper connection among the areas of the brain involved in emotional processing and mood modify and the parts of the brain involved in thoughts and concentrating. The researchers now hope to prolong monitoring the patients to see if the depression and hyper connectivity proceeds.

Mice study: Obesity gene's function exposed

Researchers believe they have recognized why a mutation in a particular gene can lead to fatness. In studies on mice which had been genetically modified to have the mutation, the mice consumed up to 80% more food than normal. According to Prof Baoji Xu If there is a difficulty with the BDNF gene, neurons can't talk to each other, and the leptin and insulin signals are unsuccessful, and appetite is not customized.

Many genes have been connected to obesity, one of them brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene has been shown to take part in a role in putting on heaviness in animal and some individual studies. The Georgetown University Medical Center researchers expect their conclusion could guide to novel ways to control heaviness.

21 Jump Street come tops US box office

A big screen version of 1980s TV shows 21 Jump Street has come top of the North American box office chart in its first weekend of release. The series focuses on a squad of youthful-looking undercover police officers investigating crimes in high schools, colleges, and further teenage venues.

 

The series provided a flash to Johnny Depp's nascent acting career, garnering him national acknowledgment as a teen idol. But the movie version has turned the story of undercover police tackling youth crime into an action comedy. According to Rory Bruer, head of distribution for film studio Sony the remake, starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, had been adapted to appeal to young cinemagoers.

Yuvraj Singh discharged from hospital

NEW DELHI: Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh was on Sunday discharged from hospital after completing the third and final cycle of chemotherapy to recover from a rare germ cell cancer in Boston, USA.

"3rd chemo cycles over, back from hospital n I am free. Road to recovery starts now. Can't wait to be back home," Yuvraj tweeted.

"Thank you 4 all ur love n wishes from the bottom of my heart I'm sure they have worked well with the doctors therapy," he said.

Yuvraj, who has been in Boston since last month, is expected to be back on the field in the first week of May, according to his doctor. The 30-year-old has gone bald during the treatment.

 

Meanwhile, Yuvraj also paid tribute to his veteran teammate Sachin Tendulkar for completing a century of international hundreds.

"Overwhelmed and full of emotions Tendulkar take a bow What he has achieved is immeasurable and what he has done is unachievable@sachin_rt," he tweeted.

"He truly is the MASTER of his generation." Yuvraj has not played competitive cricket since taking part in two of three home Tests against the West Indies in November.

He has so far scored 8,051 runs in 274 one-dayers and 1,775 runs in 37 Tests since making his international debut in 2000.

He was named Player of the Tournament in the World Cup for scoring 362 runs and grabbing 15 wickets in nine matches. During the treatment, Yuvraj had been paid a visit by legendary former Indian spinner Anil Kumble.

Sachin Tendulkar: scores 100th international century for India

The good player of India’ Sachin Tendulkar has become the first player to score 100 international centuries through compiling a ton in a one-day defeat against Bangladesh in Dhaka. The hundred was Tendulkar's foremost next to Bangladesh in one-day cricket and another 14 runs earlier than edging a Mashrafe Mortaza delivery to wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim. 

 

England Test captain Andrew Strauss was amongst a host of players to offer their congratulations   to Tendulkar. The right-hander, who holds the evidence for scoring the most Test and one-day runs, has also scored 51 Test tons. According to Narayanaswami Srinivasan, the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India ,Ever as he made his international entrance in November 1989, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar has strode cricketing arenas the world over, like a colossus.