If she wins, Christopher would be the first Indian-American in the Virginia legislature.

Fixtures from the US Open Women's Singles Round 1 matches

'Sixty percent IITians are in India, many heading great institutions in the private and public sectors,' says Professor M G K Menon.

Sudhakar V Shenoy, founder, chairman and CEO, Information Management Consultants, Inc, says 'if we do not pull up the next generation, we would have failed.'

In a nationwide crackdown, over 103 members of Mara Salvatrucha, an international gang involved in murder, narcotics trafficking and human smuggling have been arrested.

The Mahatma rubs shoulders with nearly 55,000 people in the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

US Airways faces a possible second bankruptcy filing next month and even liquidation if it fails to reach a new agreement with its unions, according to a consultancy firm.

In an apparent coordinated effort to stop 'spam', four major Internet providers - American Online, Earthlink, Yahoo and Microsoft - have filed lawsuits seeking monetary damages and injunctions against senders' bulk junk e-mail.

Lee Boyd Malvo was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for the sniper killings in Washington area in 2002, which left 10 people dead.

The wins marked a sweep in the south that extended his dominance to every region of the country.

He has won all but two of the 12 Democratic primaries so far.

Lee Boyd Malvo was 17 when the 10 killings over three weeks in October last year terrified the Washington region. The sniper's bullets also injured three people.

The spy service will be trained, financed and equipped largely by the Central Intelligence Agency with help from Jordan, US government officials told 'The Washington Post'.

At least 21 people were killed and millions left without power, water or gas as the hurricane swept through eastern United States.

A US congressional paper says the recent arrest of eleven men in Virginia, allegedly connected with the Lashkar, raises the prospects of a new terrorist threat in the US.

An Air France Concorde roared into Dulles airport in suburban Virginia on Thursday and headed for its new home at the museum's companion facility adjacent to the airport.