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Washington, July 1 (ANI): Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital have revealed that measuring the known biomarkers modestly improves the prediction of future heart attack, but not enough to change preventive therapies.

Although conventional risk factors – like as [...]

London, May 30(ANI): The British ministers’ expenses scandal has had a devastating impact on the Labour Party and on Prime Minister Gordon Brown, for according to a populus poll for The Times found the Labour’s overall position slide to 21 per cent, its lowest in polling history.

When asked how they would vote in next week’s [...]

London, May 20 (ANI): Seven in 10 Britons would like immigration slashed by 80 percent, a recent survey has concluded.

The YouGov poll, which was commissioned by Migrationwatch for the Cross Party Group on Balanced Migration, found that majority of the public want net migration to be cut down to less than 50,000 people a [...]

Dhaka, April 20 (IANS) India should stop springing ‘diplomatic surprises’ on Bangladesh, a Dhaka newspaper said Monday and added that New Delhi’s ‘aggressive style’ since the Awami League government had come to power showed its ‘assertion of dominance over a neighbouring country’.
New Delhi had ‘embarked on aggressive diplomacy to pursue its interests’ ever since Prime [...]

Dhaka, April 17 (IANS) A Bangladesh court has indicted Mufti Abdul Hannan, leader of the banned Islamist outfit Harkatul Jihad Islami (Huji), and 13 others for causing the 2001 blast at a city rally that killed 10 and injured scores of people.
The blast occurred in 2001 at Dhaka’s Ramna Batamul area during Pahela Baisakh, the [...]

SEOUL, April 13 (Reuters) – The following is a summary of major South Korean newspapers on Monday, prepared by Reuters in Seoul. Reuters has not checked the stories and does not guarantee their accuracy.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s brother-in-law Jang Song-taek, who was recently appointed to a powerful military post, visited France, Italy [...]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – BNP Paribas (BNPP.PA) will abandon its attempts to buy the assets of Fortis (FOR.BR) if shareholders of the stricken Dutch-Belgian group reject the latest revised deal this month, BNP’s chief executive said.
“If it’s ‘no,’ the game will be over for us. On this point, I am ready to bet a box of [...]

Dhaka, April 7 (IANS) Candidates in Bangladesh’s parliamentary poll spent three times more than the limits imposed by the Election Commission, says Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB).
Candidates spent an average of over Tk 4.4 million ($63,000 approximately), flouting the Election Commission poll expenditure limit of Tk 1.5 million ($21,000) for each candidate, TIB has said in [...]

London, Apr.2 (ANI): British tennis star Andy Murray insists that he has rediscovered the habit of winning as he prepares for a Masters quarterfinal in Miami today.
The British No 1 will take on Fernando Verdasco – who beat him in the fourth round of the Australian Open in January – at the Sony Ericsson Open.
“I’ve [...]

London, Mar.25 (ANI): British tennis star Andy Murray is hoping to capture the world number one spot with his recent stupendous form.

Murray has been performing well on grass court as well as on synthetic courts’ as he powered his way through to the final of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells last weekend, [...]

Indian Wells (California), Mar 15 (ANI): Indian tennis sensation Sania Mirza on Sunday crashed out of the women’s singles event after a straight set loss to Italian Flavia Pennetta in the second round of the BNP Paribas Open here.

Another Indian Leander Paes, however, advanced to the second round of men’s doubles.

The loss ends Sania’s campaign [...]

London, Feb.28 (ANI): The number of British jobs going to migrants is lighting the fuse for potential mass disturbances across the nation severely affected by the global meltdown, a bishop has warned.

The Right Reverend Nigel McCulloch, [...]

Recent study has revealed the first common gene variants associated with an elevated risk of hypertension. Research team led by Christopher Newton-Cheh of the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Human Genetic Research studied the DNA of nearly 30,000 people.
The research team studied variants of two genes for these peptides — atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and [...]

London, Feb 16 (ANI): Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital have identified two common genetic variants associated with increased risk of hypertension – a significant risk factor for heart attack, stroke and kidney failure.

The variants are located on two genes called NPPA and NPPB, which control proteins that relax blood vessels and help the excretion [...]

Dhaka, Feb.9 (ANI): The newly elected Sheikh Hasina government has reassured India that it will not allow its territory to be used for spreading terror in India.

Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni told reporters here: “They (terrorists) don’t have any borders, don’t have any religion. They don’t have any nationality, they are terrorists, [...]

London, Jan.14 (ANI): An official investigation has been launched after two immigration service staff working with asylum-seekers were found to have links to the British National Party, The Independent reports.
One guard employed to look after asylum-seekers at a detention centre has been forced to resign after his name was found on a membership list of [...]

Peshawar, Jan 5 (ANI): The Pakistan Government is providing covert support to the Taliban to capture land in eastern and western Quetta in order to undermine the Baloch nationalist movement and promote Talibanisation in Balochistan.

Balochistan National Party (BNP) Information Secretary and former senator, Sanaullah Baloch, said the government is fully aware of these encroachments, but [...]