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London, Sep 5 (ANI): After almost 30 years of one of Britain’s best-known UFO sightings, the true story behind the event has emerged- a truck load of dung is what caused all the mayhem.

The weird lights, strange marks on the ground, and odd noises in the night were [...]

Sydney, September 3 (ANI): NASA is preparing to launch an infrared telescope that will hunt down dark asteroids that have slipped beneath our radar.

According to a report by ABC Science, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft recently arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California ahead of its launch later this year.

With a quartet [...]

Srinagar, Sep 1 (ANI): A soldier was killed in firing from across the border at a forward post along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch District in the wee hours on Tuesday, Army officials said.

According to reports, the soldier [...]

London, September 1 (ANI): Jordan has reportedly shelled out 150,000 pounds on a new dressage horse that she has named Cross Dresser.

The former glamour girl, a.k.a Katie Price, was said to have acquired the world-class ride from a Dutch stables.

The keen horsewoman, [...]

London, August 31 (ANI): Jade Goody’s grave is said to be lying “lonely and forgotten” while her husband Jack Tweed has been snapped continuing his hard-party lifestyle.

The reality TV star’s final resting place was allegedly left untended, while the 22-year-old widower was photographed [...]

Mumbai, July 10 (ANI): About 1,400 Tamil refugees are dying every week at the giant Manik Farm internment camp in Sri Lanka, senior international aid sources have told The Times.

The death toll will add to concerns that the Sri Lankan Government has failed to halt a humanitarian catastrophe after announcing victory over the Tamil [...]

Washington, July 4 (ANI): Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine say that the hair sheep, a less-hirsute version of the familiar woolly barnyard resident, may be key to better diagnostic tests in developing world.

The researchers have found that not only are these ruminants low-maintenance and parasite-resistant, they’re also perfect blood donors for the [...]

Kolkata, June 29 (ANI): Roller-skating is rapidly catching the fancy of youngsters in Kolkata.

With the Roller Skating Club now has 500 registered members. It was started up in 2001.

“It is absolutely an aerobic sport. So, because it is an aerobic sport, it helps you in endurance and stamina. Secondly [...]

Queensland, June 29(ANI): In an analysis done by a leading Australian newspaper, it has formulated a plan which has suggested different methods to the Australian squad for winning the historic Ashes series this year.

The Courier-Mail in its analysis titled “ABC of how Australia can win the Ashes”, bewares the English side of its plan.

It has [...]

London, Jun 26 (ANI): A Canadian lady has managed to create an awe inspiring vision of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling in simple cross-stitch.

Joanna Lopianowski-Roberts, 44, who lives in San Francisco, California, used a British concept by cross-stitch ‘guru’ Dave Peters, called Xstitch [...]

Mumbai, June 25 (ANI): Hordes of movie enthusiasts thronged a film festival of rare and vintage war movies besides many other documentaries related to Indian independence and defence forces here.

Organised by the Films Division (FD), in cooperation with the Armed Forces Film and [...]

New Delhi, May 28 (ANI): Fifty nine ministers took their oath in English and Hindi at a solemn ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhavan on Thursday.

President Pratibha Patil administered oath of office to 38 ministers in English and 21 ministers in Hindi.

The 59 ministers will now join Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and 19 other Cabinet Ministers.

The 38 [...]

London, May 28 (ANI): Terri Seymour, ex-girlfriend of music mogul Simon Cowell, is seeking a restraining order against a woman she claims tried to strangle her.

Seymour, who is host of American Idol’s Extra TV spin-off, said she was attacked from behind outside the TV studio in Los Angeles.

The 35-year-old insists that she could have been [...]

London, May 27 (ANI): Frank and Anita Milford, aged 101 and 100 respectively, celebrated their 81st wedding anniversary yesterday. And, in case, you’re wondering what’s keeping their marriage alive, well the answer is pretty ‘mundane’ – regular rows!

The couple, who became man and wife in 1928, met at a YMCA dance in Plymouth, where they [...]

London, May 27 (ANI): If rumours are to believed, Guy Ritchie is set to direct a remake of classic musical ‘Guys And Dolls’.

According to sources, Ritchie has been given the green light by studio bosses in tinsel town to embark on a casting mission to fill the roles of Sky Masterson and Nathan Detroit – [...]

London, May 25 (ANI): Schoolkids as young as five should be taught to critically analyse advertising, media and popular culture “messages”, suggests a New South Wales academic.

Karen Brooks, a Southern Cross University Associate Professor, says that kids aged five to 18-referred to as “screenagers” or “mediavores”-should be taught the skills to deal with the onslaught [...]

New Delhi, May 22 (ANI): India on Friday dispatched a team of 27 doctors and paramedics to the war ravaged Sri Lanka for the benefit of the devastated Tamil civilian population.

An Indian Air Force IL-76 aircraft took off from New Delhi for Colombo this [...]

Pune, May 21 (ANI): The United Nations and other aid agencies are clamoring for unfettered access to the war zone in Sri Lnaka, which they say is crucial to aid the wounded and to lay the groundwork for rebuilding trust in the divided island nation.

“The international community must require the prompt deployment of international [...]

Colombo, May 21 (ANI): Thousands of Tamil civilians who had been forced from their homes by the conflict in Sri Lanka could be interned in refugee camps for up to two years before they are permitted to return, authorities in Colombo have said.

The revelation comes as the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) said [...]

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 [...]