Pathan bowls India to win in final Sri Lanka ODI

Irfan Pathan grabbed five wickets as India posted a 20-run victory over Sri Lanka in the fifth and final one-day international in Pallekele on Saturday to win the series 4-1.

The paceman finished with 5-61, his second five-wicket haul in one-dayers, as India bowled Sri Lanka out for 274 after scoring a challenging 294-7 in the day-night match.

Sri Lanka were struggling at 102-5 before Lahiru Thirimanne (77) and Jeevan Mendis (72) gave India some anxious moments with a 102-run stand for the sixth wicket.

Thirimanne hit three sixes and five fours in his career-best knock before he was run out, and then man-of-the-match Pathan removed Thisara Perera (18) and well-set Mendis in the same over.

Mendis cracked six fours in his maiden half-century in one-day internationals.

India earlier put in an impressive batting performance, with opener Gautam Gambhir (88), middle-order batsman Manoj Tiwary (65) and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (58) all making half-centuries.

"This was a very good wicket to bat on. Gautam batted well and we had a very good platform," said Dhoni.

"We still need to improve, not only in bowling but also in batting."

India were under pressure at 87-3 but Gambhir and Tiwary propped up the innings with a 110-run stand for the fourth wicket.

Sri Lanka then got three quick wickets to reduce India to 213-6 before wicketkeeper-batsman Dhoni and Pathan (29 not out) added 77 for the seventh wicket to help their team set a stiff target.

Fast bowlers Lasith Malinga (3-64) and Nuwan Pradeep (2-63) were the main wicket-takers for Sri Lanka.

"It was encouraging to see Thirimanne and Mendis taking on the challenge," said stand-in Sri Lanka skipper Angelo Mathews, leading the side in the absence of Mahela Jayawardene who was rested.

"The Indians have a very good batting line-up and unfortunately we fell short by 20 runs."

Malinga dismissed Tiwary and Suresh Raina off successive deliveries before taking his 200th wicket in one-day internationals when he had Dhoni caught behind. The Indian skipper smashed one six and eight fours.

Gambhir, who also completed 5,000 one-day runs during his 99-ball knock, was caught by Malinga at point off spinner Sachithra Senanayake after hitting seven fours.

Pradeep bagged two of the first three wickets when he trapped Virat Kohli (23) leg-before and bowled out-of-form Rohit Sharma (4) in successive overs. Sharma finished the series with just 13 runs in five matches.

Kohli, who scored two centuries in five matches, was named man of the series.

Sri Lanka and India will now clash in a one-off Twenty20 international at the same venue on Tuesday.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gambhir-dhoni-boost-india-sri-lanka-odi-161421759.html

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Nose for crime: $1.2M in French perfume nabbed

PARIS (AP) ? French police say 1 million euro ($1.2 million) worth of Givenchy perfume has been recovered after it was stolen by masked thieves from a warehouse in the middle of the night.

The scented bounty was taken a week ago from Beauvais, near Paris, and was discovered on Tuesday, according to local police official Jean-Marie Salsat.

Salsat, who revealed details of the perfume heist Friday, said the bottles were found unused, with the stoppers still in.

The Sipa news agency, quoting unnamed police sources, reports that several robbers had overpowered a perfume warehouse night watchman. They later loaded trucks with the fragrances produced by the French house Givenchy, part of fashion giant LVMH.

The thieves are still at large.

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Changes in Sleep Linked to Memory Decline in Older Adults

ORLANDO ? Sleep may be more important for memory storage in young people than it is in older adults, a new study suggests.

In the study, young people performed better on a memory test following a night's sleep, indicating that sleep was helpful in storing their memories.

However, the same was not true for older adults, who performed about the same on the memory test regardless of whether they had slept before the test.

The findings add to a growing body of research on the role of sleep in memory storage, also known as memory consolidation. While earlier studies have suggested sleep does indeed benefit memory consolidation, nearly all of these studies have been conducted in college-age people, said study researcher Michael Scullin, a researcher at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.

"We are seeing that sleep is essential to memory in younger adults. It doesn?t seem to be to as [important] in older adults. That probably isn't a good thing," Scullin said.

The findings suggest that, in some way, sleep has a role in the general decline in memory seen in older adults, Scullin said.

Sleep and memory

For his study, Scullin asked 57 young adults (ages 18 to 22) and 41 older adults (ages 60 to 84) to complete a memory task. The task involved learning to associate pairs of words ? for instance, if the word pair was "channel, result" participants would have to recall the word "result" when shown the word "channel."

Participants learned the words in the morning or the evening, and returned 12 hours later for a memory test.

Those who learned the words in the evening got to go home and sleep before their test. While they slept, they wore a headband device that monitored brain waves, and determined stages of sleep.

Although people in both age groups got about the same amount of total sleep, older adults got about half as much slow-wave sleep ? a stage of deep sleep that has been shown to be important for memory consolidation.

Additionally, the results showed an association between the amount of slow-wave sleep and memory test scores in the younger group, but there was no such link in the older group, Scullin said.

Improving memory?

Despite the findings, the solution to improving memory in older adults might not be as simple as finding a way to increase their slow-wave sleep, Scullin said.

Scullin said it is not clear why older adults don't show the same memory benefit from sleep as young people. It could be due to changes in the brain, or the way brain areas communicate with each other, Scullin said.

Researchers need to figure out what is changing in older adults so that they can fix it, Scullin said.

"It makes sense that sleep should be linked to memory in younger adults. And we want to get that link working again in older adults," Scullin said.

Scullin presented his study here today (Aug. 2) at the American Psychology Association meeting. The work is currently being reviewed for publication.

Pass it on: Older adults do not appear to get the same memory benefit from sleep as younger people.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/changes-sleep-linked-memory-decline-older-adults-185307804.html

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