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Researchers have found more than half of newspaper stories surveyed over five days were driven by the public relations industry.
More than 2,000 articles from 10 newspapers were analysed by the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism at the University of Technology in Sydney and online publication Crikey in September last year.
The results showed nearly 55 per [...]

MELBOURNE: A majority of overseas students, including Indians, in Melbourne often fear for their safety because of risky jobs, poor transport options and lack of safe affordable housing, with many of them also attaching racial or religious element to the perceived threats, says a new study.
Of the 515 international students surveyed by the Victorian University, [...]

WASHINGTON: Though Pakistan fears that a repeat of the Mumbai attacks could be “very dangerous” to it, there is relatively little shift in its attitude towards India which it views as a “threat”, a noted US scholar has said.
Dan Markey of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Washington-based think-tank, was recently in Pakistan, where he [...]

Toronto, Mar 5 (ANI): Bradley Laborman calls and informs people that their lovers have dumped them, as part of his job.
The ‘IDUMP4U.com’ operator from Mount Pleasant, Iowa has made splitsville smoother with his unique e-business.
Laborman charges 10 dollars for the favor.
He also posts some of the heart-wrenching, sleazy and just-plain-uncomfortable recordings of the calls on [...]

London, Sept 18 (ANI): Jordan’s ex-fianci Warren Furman is now guilt ridden because he fears he had once accused the glamour girl of cheating on him with the man who she now claims raped her.

Furman who played Ace in the British TV show Gladiator [...]

Chandigarh, Sept 17 (ANI): In a bid to provide quick, hassle free and reasonably charged mode of transportation, a dial-an-auto service equipped with GPS navigation system has been launched for the first time in Chandigarh.

The neat and clean pink coloured motor rickshaws, known as Tuk Tuk, are changing the way people travel in the city.

The [...]

Patna, Sep. 16 (ANI): School students in Patna city protested on Wednesday against the kidnapping of a six-year-old boy.

Shresht Sanjay was kidnapped at the gunpoint in Patna on Monday. Shresht is a standard One student at Christ church school in Kankarbagh area.

Students of Montessori School in [...]

Nongshum Village (Manipur), Sep 14(ANI): Fear has gripped the villagers of Nongshum village in Manipur’s Imphal district after suspected militants ransacked houses and beat up villagers.

Militant violence has further forced people from the village to flee from their houses.

According to reports, some 50 militant cadres of suspected [...]

London, September 14 (ANI): Lily Allen has decided to take a break from her singing career and make her stage debut in a new West End play.

The 24-year-old confessed she has had enough of music for the time being as she recently wrapped up the festival season at Bestival.

“I’m not going to record and tour [...]

Washington, September 12 (ANI): Actress Rebecca Romijn has revealed she has no plans of having more children in fear of “overpopulating the world”.

The ‘X-Men’ star, who looks after her eight-month-old twins with husband Jerry O’Connell, said she was happy to have a four-member family.

“I’m pretty sure that this is it. We feel like the world [...]

Urumqi (China), Sep. 9 (ANI): Despite a death penalty warning, 77 cases of needle attack were reported between Sunday and Monday evenings in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, police say.

So far, police have caught 45 suspects during the syringe scare, of whom 12 remain [...]

Guwahati, Sep 9 (ANI): As experts claim that a big earthquake might hit Assam region shortly, locals are rushing to get their houses insured while the authorities are conducting sensitization campaigns as a precautionary measure.

The region was rocked by four earthquakes in past three weeks, including a tremor with 5.9 magnitude, the biggest in [...]

New Delhi, Sep 7 (ANI): Union Home Minister P.Chidambaram on Monday assured full and comprehensive security will be provided during the Commonwealth Games to be held in October 2010 in Delhi.

Speaking to a private news channel on the security arrangements for the Commonwealth Games, Chidambaram said the participating countries need not have any fear.

“I make [...]

London, September 7 (ANI): An expedition team has found a new species of giant rat in an extinct volcano in the jungle of Papua New Guinea, which at 82cm length, is as big as a cat.

According to a report by BBC News, the creature, which has not yet been formally described, was discovered by [...]

London, Sep 4 (ANI): The Internet has been touted as one of the most useful tool for the last two decades, and has had a huge impact on our lives, but along with its benefits, the World Wide Web has also had some negative impacts on people.

While tasks [...]

Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): Monkeys prefer silence to Mozart, but they are big fans of heavy metal music, in particular Metallica, a new study has found.

Music is a sure-shot way to influence human emotions. However, nonhuman primates scarcely respond to human music, and instead prefer silence.

Now, [...]

Washington, Sep 1 (ANI): The earthquake that jolted Wenchuan, China, in 2008 has had an acute impact on the brain function of physically healthy survivors, and even poses a risk to their mental health, according a new research.

Working with collaborators from universities in China, the US and Liverpool, researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry focussed [...]

London, Sept 1 (ANI): Planning to woo a girl? Well, then here’s a pointer for you: eight out of 10 women love men paying them compliments – even if they are strangers.

That’s the conclusion of a new UK study, which found that up to half women are secretly pleased if they get wolf-whistles from builders [...]

Palamu (Jharkhand), Aug 31(ANI): First it was drought and now it is swarming caterpillars, which are adding to the woes of the paddy farmers in Jharkhand’s Palamu district.

The farmers in the region are worried as the caterpillars are devouring the paddy plants and have spread across [...]

New Delhi, Aug 31 (ANI): Dita Von Teese has said that one of her biggest fears while performing on stage is to lose her nipple tassels.

The burlesque dancer uses extra-strong glue to ensure that her crystal-decorated breast accessories do not slip out of place, and flash too much flesh.

“I use serious waterproof glue, because [...]