Video of Bin Laden Osama Released With Pashto Translation

Osama Released With Pashto Translation, Al Qaeda has re-released a videotape of Osama bin Laden with Pashto translation.
Same video was released earlier on July 12, 2000. Intel Center US, which monitors terrorism activities, said this video was earlier released in Urdu and Arabic. Osama in the video had urged Pakistani people to play their role for brining change in country’s foreign policy.

Scientists halt brain disease with gene therapy

Deactivated version of AIDS virus stalls rare and fatal ailment in two boys

Scientists have managed to halt a rare and fatal brain disease with an experimental gene therapy technique using a deactivated version of the AIDS virus, a study published on Thursday showed.

The international team used a disabled form of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to deliver working genes to two boys with the brain disease X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD). Their success may help shape future treatment.

Patrick Aubourg of Inserm-University Paris Descartes, who led the study, said it was the first time scientists had successfully used an HIV-derived delivery technique for gene therapy in humans, and the first time gene therapy had been used effectively in a severe brain disease.

Dancing With the Stars

Last night's double elimination on Dancing With the Stars provided the perfect opportunity for Weepy, Grumpy, and Dopey to use their special ''name of couple'' sparkly paddles for the second night in a row...and also to revive their faux-dramatic ULTIMATE DECIDERS roles from the Ballroom Kids competition of seasons past. Ballroom kid Melissa Joan Hart was eliminated first, to zero fanfare. I think her crazy two-toned eye shadow last night and Mark's perma-pissed facial expression for the past few weeks are what I'll remember most about this couple, though Mark would prefer we remember their Charleston. That left Louie Vito and Michael Irvin to compete in a dance-off with 30-second routines they'd learned the same morning, then get chastised for not putting more preparation into the dances. Shut up, judges! I was actually surprised that the Paddles of Pre-Determinism ended up stacked in Michael Irvin's favor considering the air of overwhelming indifference with which they've treated him this season, but maybe they just feared for Chelsie's life after Louie dropped her twice Monday night. So it's bye-bye to Louie, then, and bye-bye to his final aerial trick about a split second too soon. The harsh cut away from the full-twisting back flip off the technicolor platform is always the deepest.