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PowerCor is trying to find out what sparked a fire that cut more than 9,000 electricity connections around Horsham yesterday evening.
A fire at the town’s electricity substation caused the outage about 5:00pm (AEDT). Power supplies were returned about an hour later.
Company spokesman Damian Batey says it will take some time to establish the cause.
“It will [...]

Perth Wildcats coach Rob Beveridge says his side is still well placed to win a record fifth NBL championship despite losing game two of the grand final series to Wollongong.
The Wildcats went down 75-63 to the Hawks in Wollongong on Tuesday night to force a grand final decider in Perth on Friday night.
Beveridge says his [...]

London, Mar.10 (ANI): Danish striker Nicklas Bendtner believes Arsenal can win the Champions League after scoring his first ever hattrick last night.
The Mirror quoted Bendtner, whose stunning treble destroyed Porto, as saying: “This will give us a lot of confidence. We want to win the Champions League. It’s something we haven’t done.”
Delighted Arsenal boss Arsene [...]

New Delhi/ Faizabad/Allahabad, Sept 19 (ANI): The nine-day ‘Navratri’ festival began across India with religious fervour on Saturday.

Thousands of devotees queued up at various temples dedicated to Goddess Durga.

In New Delhi, devotees converged at Jhandewalan to offer prayers prior to dawn and observed fast throughout [...]

New Delhi, Sep.18 (ANI): The Congress party on Friday said it would take appropriate action against Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor for his “cattle class” comments through the medium of Twitter at the appropriate time.

Addressing a party news [...]

Washington, September 16 (ANI): Spanking negatively affects the behaviour of toddlers in low-income families, according to a new study.

Published in the journal Child Development, the longitudinal study looked at how low-income parents discipline their young children.

It showed that spanking 1-year-olds leads to more aggressive behaviours and less sophisticated cognitive development in the next two [...]

London, Sep 16 (ANI): American singer Tito Jackson has revealed that he has forgiven his late brother Michael Jackson’s personal doctor Conrad Murray, the prime suspect in the ‘Thriller’ star’s death.

Jacko’s death on June 25, at the age of 50, has been officially declared a homicide.

However, Tito, 55, says that [...]

Washington, September 9 (ANI): A British study suggests that the ability to identify a face, when it is shown for only a fraction of a second, reduces as people age.

Lead researcher Guillaume Rousselet, from the University of Glasgow, came to this conclusion after analysing electric activity from the brains of young and old people [...]

Mumbai, Sep 9 (ANI): The organising committee of the famed ‘Lalbag ka Raja’ community Ganesha Puja pandal commenced the auctioning of various ornaments which were offered by devotees during the ten-day festival of Ganesha Chaturthi.

Ornaments worth rupees 26,94,155 lakh were bought by the bidding buyers.

Devotees from across the country had offered precious stones, gold [...]

New York, Sep.1 (ANI): The family of Indian-born fashion designer Anand Jon has reacted with dismay to the 59-year sentence handed over to him by a US court for sexually assaulting aspiring models. They claimed that Jon has been “victimised” and that facts have been overlooked in the case.

The designer’s mother Shashi Jon said, [...]

London, Aug 29(ANI): Formula One racer Lewis Hamilton has said that he is looking for payback in Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix.

Hamilton had won at the Spa-Francorchamps track last year, but was controversially stripped of victory for cutting a chicane during a fierce tit-for-tat [...]

Nevada (US), Aug 27 (ANI): Rumour has it that some Hollywood celebrities will partake in the Haridwar Kumbh Mela, termed as biggest spiritual gathering on earth, in India during January-April next year.

The names of the celebrities, however, are being kept under wraps.

For international celebrities, business tycoons and other VVIPs, many luxury camps with all-weather cottages [...]

Melbourne, Aug 26 (ANI): Australian researchers have questioned the science behind the ‘ideal’ sitting posture.

According to researchers at the University of Queensland’s Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in Spinal Pain, Injury and Health, the posture often recommended as ideal cannot be achieved sans assistance.

In fact, the ‘ideal’ curved lower back posture is not only difficult [...]

Washington, August 20 (ANI): Hollywood actress Charlize Theron is stunned that despite a lot of efforts being made to spread AIDS awareness among people, HIV-positive men in her native South Africa believe that they will be cured of the disease if they have sex with a young virgin.

She founded the Cape Town Rape Crisis Centre [...]

Mumbai, Aug 19 (ANI): India’s Zoroastrian Parsi community celebrated the New Year day, ‘Navroz’, with usual fervour here on Wednesday.

Members of the miniscule Parsi community flocked at the Fire Temple to pay respects to their prophet Zarathushtra.

The Parsi New Year is marked by [...]

Kosh-Korgon (Kyrgyzstan), Aug.18 (ANI): Some Central Asians are reported to have acquired training from the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan and are now spreading Islamic radicalism in the region.

Kyrgyz security services recently tracked down three locals soon after their arrival. They stormed a building along the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border where they were staying, killed two of [...]

Washington, August 13 (ANI): A new study from two of NASA’s Great Observatories has shown that radiation from massive stars may trigger the formation of many more stars than previously thought.

While astronomers have long understood that stars and planets form from the collapse of a cloud of gas, the question of the main causes of [...]

Washington, Aug 8 (ANI): Defying conventional wisdom about how and why people lie, a psychology professor at the University of Massachusetts has said in his new book that lying is common, and people willingly accept and often welcome the lies they are told because it takes a lot of work to identify lying and liars.

Robert [...]

London, July 13 (ANI): Scientists have found a strong obesity link between mothers and daughters and fathers and sons, but the link was absent across the gender divide.

In a study of 226 families by Plymouth’s Peninsula Medical School, researchers found that obese mothers were 10 times more likely to have obese daughters and for fathers [...]

New Delhi, July 13 (ANI/Business Wire India): Mint, HT Media Ltd’s business daily in an exclusive content partnership with The Wall Street Journal, is now national.

With the launch of the Chennai edition on July 13, Mint now has a national footprint that includes New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chandigarh and Pune.

With an introductory [...]