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Kabul, Sep 18(ANI): In an ambitious aim to help bring an end to the eight-year war in Afghanistan by persuading the Taliban to lay down their arms, British Army Lt. Gen Sir Graeme Lamb said that many Taliban activists have “done nothing wrong”, rather [...]

Washington, September 11 (ANI): A research mission has located and identified the final resting place of the YP-389, a US Navy patrol boat sunk approximately 20 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, by a German submarine during World War II.

Six sailors [...]

London, Sep 10(ANI): A survey has found US President Barack Obama’s popularity is gaining massive support in European Union countries.

The German Marshall Fund, which conducted a study, said that 77 per cent of European citizens support Obama’s handling of international affairs, while only 19 per cent found former President George W Bush doing the [...]

Washington, Sept 9 (ANI): Celebrity judge Simon Cowell is planning an extravagant birthday bash for himself when he turns 50 next month.

Cowell is all set to shell out 250,000 pounds for a glamorous party to celebrate his birthday on October 7, say reports.t is believed 400 celebrity friends of Cowell will descend at Hertfordshire’s Wrotham [...]

London, Sep.8 (ANI): New evidence put before a British jury during a retrial of three Brit Muslim convicts suggests that the men used code words to discuss their plans with an al-Qaeda fixer based in Pakistan.

The e-mails and conversations suggest that the plot was in its final stages, possibly days away from execution in [...]

Washington, August 9 (ANI): A new research has determined that seasonal winds might drive current variability in the northern Indian Ocean.

The research was carried out by J. Vialard and his team from the Laboratoire d’Oceanographie Experimentation et Approches Numeriques, IRD, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.

It was done to study the dynamics [...]

Washington, July 9 (ANI): Francis Lawrence may be reuniting with his ‘I Am Legend’ star Will Smith for 20th Century Fox project ‘The City That Sailed’.

The director is developing the project, which is being produced by Smith’s Overbrook banner, with an eye to direct, reports the Variety.

The film’s story is about a father and daughter [...]

Sydney, July 9 (ANI): A US scientist has said that some dinosaurs grew larger than today’s elephants because they ate more and used less energy.

According to a report in ABC Science, the study suggests two factors, energy expenditure and food intake, influence the size of animals.

Using a mathematical model, study author Dr Brian McNab of [...]

Washington, July 8 (ANI): A new research has suggested that Coralline algae in the Mediterranean Sea lost their tropical element between 5 and 7 million years ago.

The international team of researchers studied the coralline algae fossils that lived on the last coral reefs of the Mediterranean Sea between 7.24 and 5.3 million years ago.

The research [...]

Washington, July 8 (ANI): Florida Atlantic University engineers in Boca Raton are working on a superior new face recognition technique that can see through disguises.

Lin Huang, from the university’s Department of Engineering, says that every face has special features that define people, yet faces can also be very similar.

The researcher adds that this is what [...]

Toronto, July 4 (IANS) Two prestigious universities – Oxford in Britain and McGill in Canada – have joined hands for research on the human brain. The two universities are among world leaders in neuroscience research.
Montreal-based McGill University said Friday that it is partnering with Oxford “to broaden understanding of the human brain and take research [...]

Paris, July 3 (ANI): The Air France flight that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean last month, killing all 228 people on board plunged vertically from the sky so suddenly that passengers and crew on board did not even have time to inflate their life jackets.

The Telegraph quoted investigators as saying that the Airbus “descended [...]

New Delhi, June 29 (ANI): Group Captain Gurdial Singh Paul, who served in the Indian Air Force from its formative years, passed away on Saturday. He was 93.

Singh was cremated near Brar Square, today. A wreath was placed on behalf of the IAF by Air [...]

London, June 23 (ANI): Kate Moss gave a miss to the ramp and instead walked on the aircraft wing for the 25th anniversary bash of Virgin Atlantic.

Virgin Atlantic boss Sir Richard Branson whisked the supermodel off to New York for the 25th birthday party.

And during a [...]

London, June 22 (ANI): Prince Harry will reportedly increase his fundraising visits across the Atlantic to support events organised by the newly established American leg of his charity Sentebale.

The 24-year-old, who credits his late mother Princess Diana for inspiring him to continue his work for AIDS victims, touched hearts during a celebrity fundraising dinner in [...]

London/Ottawa, May 22 (ANI): Large Tamil communities in Britain and Canada have vowed to continue the struggle for Tamil self-determination rights in Sri Lanka following the death of LTTE chief Vellupillai Prabhakaran.

Holding portraits of Prabhakaran, who was killed by Sri Lankan army soldiers earlier this week, the Tamil diaspora in these two countries are mobilizing [...]

London, May 9 (ANI): A pocket watch, which a doomed Titanic passenger wore and which stopped at the moment he jumped into the sea, is up for grabs.

Swede Malkolm Johnson, 33, who failed to get on a lifeboat after the ship hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage in 1912, had dived into the [...]

Tromso (Norway), May 3 (ANI): Russia is planning to build a fleet of floating and submersible nuclear power stations to exploit Arctic oil and gas reserves.

This is causing widespread alarm among environmentalists, reports The Guardian. prototype floating nuclear power station being constructed [...]

Lahore, Apr.29 (ANI): The Pakistan Army, which has until now vowed to stay away from the country’s politics, may be compelled to act and initiate a coup if the government continues its submissive performance, a former Saudi intelligence chief has said.

According to Turki al-Faisal, Pakistan has failed to deal with the Taliban in the [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar confronted a host of sea creatures and polar bears on Thursday as costumed Californians told the new administration ‘no’ to offshore oil drilling.
Salazar did not hint at the contents of President Barack Obama’s energy policy, but said it would address climate change and include oil and [...]