Hitler photos out

Never seen before photos of Adolf Hitler taken by personal photographer Hugo Jaeger have been revealed.

Jaeger was granted unprecedented access to Hitler from 1936 to 1945.He travelled with Hitler and chronicled the Fuhrer and his confidants at small gatherings, public events and private moments.

The images almost never made the light of day, reports the New York Daily News. Back in 1945, when the Allies pushed towards Munich, the snapper came face-to-face with some American soldiers.

He was scared he would be arrested when they found the thousands of colour negatives he had hidden in a leather suitcase. But, destiny had something else in store. The soldiers threw open the case to discover a bottle of cognac, which they eagerly opened and shared with Jaeger, ignoring everything else. To preserve the photos, he buried them in 12 glass jars on the outskirts of Munich.

In 1955, Jaeger finally retrieved all 2,000 transparencies and stored them in a bank vault before selling them to LIFE magazine in 1965.

Kuwait elects its first women parliamentarians

Kuwaitis voted for change in the Gulf emirate's second poll in a year, giving women their first seats in parliament and punishing Sunni Islamic groups, according to results released on Sunday.

Four women candidates made history by winning the first female seats in the Kuwaiti parliament, with one of them coming on top of the 10 winners from her district.

Liberals Massuma al-Mubarak, Aseel al-Awadhi and Rula Dashti, besides independent Salwa al-Jassar won seats in the new house. The four women are all US-educated and hold doctorate degrees in political science, economics and education.

Sixteen women were among 210 candidates who stood in the election, the third since 2006.

“This is the will of change of the Kuwaiti people,” MP Mubarak said. "We hope the results will lead to political stability and help achieve the desired cooperation between parliament and government."

The two mainstream Sunni groups, the Islamic Salafi Alliance and the Islamic Constitutional Movement, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, were dealt a heavy blow, winning just three seats versus seven they held in the previous parliament.

The Shiite Muslim minority emerged big winners, almost doubling their strength from five seats to as many as nine.

Bharti Airtel becomes India's biggest music company

Indian telecom giant Bharti Airtel has now become the country's biggest music company, overtaking the industry leader Saregama, on the back of its music-related value-added mobile services, a top executive has said.

"Music Bharti has become the largest music company in India, overtaking Saregama India Ltd in terms of revenue," Bharti Airtel's Deputy CEO Sanjay Kapoor said.

While Kapoor did not disclose the exact revenue earned by Music Bharti, which provides music services like hello tunes, call-back tunes and music on demand, Saregama had a annual revenue of about Rs 150 crore in the fiscal ended March 31, 2008.

Bharti Airtel, flagship company of Sunil Mittal-led Bharti Group, recently entered into an exclusive multi-million dollar deal with Machester United here, under which it would offer its mobile subscribers access to the mobile content related to the British soccer club.

"We are growing fast in the music segment," Kapoor said, adding there was huge growth potential for the company in other value-added service segments like mobile commerce also.

Mobile number portability service from September 20

Come September, cellphone users in some parts of the country, including the four metros Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai, will have the facility to switch operators even while retaining their existing number.

The Department of Telecom (DoT) has issued a notification in this regard saying, "Mobile Number Portability is to be implemented in Delhi, Mumbai, Maharashtra and Gujarat Service areas of Zone I and Kolkata, Tamil Nadu, Chennai, Andhra and Karnataka of Zone 2 within six months of award of licence by September 20, 2009, and in the rest of the country by March 20, 2010".

Syniverse Technologies (Zone 1) and MNP Interconnection (Zoin 2) are the two companies who have been licenced by the DoT to carry out the MNP exercise.

The DoT further said TRAI will decide on all kinds of tariffs related to MNP like the transaction fee to be charged from the customer for seeking change of number.

But sources said number portability charges are likely to be below Rs 300 and it will take maximum two days to change the service provider.

TRAI is learnt to be keen to keep the cost at a reasonable level so as not to discourage subscribers willing to change their service provider and at the same time make it a viable business model for the service providers.

How Do You Know If You have the Flu?

How Do You Know If You have the Flu?

The flu has an incubation period of 36 to 48 hours, which means that it takes that long after you are exposed to an infected person for enough germs to grow in your own body to produce symptoms. During that time, you do have the flu but you don't feel sick yet. People who have the flu are contagious during the incubation period, and for up to 7 days after symptoms do appear. This means that you can catch the flu from someone who does not yet look or feel sick.

Symptoms of the flu include the following:

* High fever
* Extreme fatigue
* Headache
* Body aches (often severe)
* sore throat
* cough
* stuffy nose and congestion
* gastrointestinal symptoms like vomiting and diarrhea (more typical in children that in adults)

A bit of personal experience here: If you aren't sure if you have the flu, you probably don't have it or you probably have a milder strain. Type A influenza is a fairly miserable experience. About 15 years ago I came down with a case of it and was pretty much immobile for seven days. I have a fever of 103-104 for five days, severe body aches, and even after my fever broke, it took several weeks to regain my normal energy level. That's fairly typical.