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Melbourne, Sept 11 (ANI): Australian scientists have come up with a non-invasive screening tool for detecting obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA).

Snoring is a very early symptom of sleep apnoea, however, monitoring the changes [...]

London, Jul 10 (ANI): Reality television show ‘Big Brother’ is in hot water once again, as watchdog Ofcom has received almost 300 complaints that Marcus Akin racially bullied Indian contender Sree Dasari.

Ofcom has said that it would be looking into viewers’ concerns about the 35-year-old window fitter imitating former housemate Sree’s Indian accent.

The [...]

New York, July 4 (ANI): The US Department of Homeland Security has given three state-of-the-art radiation detectors to the New York Police Department to patrol city streets in search of dirty bombs and other nuclear threats.

The 450,000-dollar worth Advanced Spectroscopic Portal Monitors will be placed [...]

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 [...]

Hamburg – A German aviation expert, analyzing sparse details provided so far by Air France, gave an account Wednesday suggesting several minutes of severe technical problems by the Air France Airbus before it crashed into the Atlantic Ocean early Monday.
In an interview with the German Press Agency dpa, aviation expert Heinrich Grossbongardt reviewed information which [...]

Mainz, Germany – Taking basic steps to save energy can also save up to 60 euros (80 dollars) a year, according to a German consumer agency.
Computer users should set their system to energy saving mode, advises the Consumer Central of Rhineland Palatinate in Mainz, Germany. Doing so forces the computer to automatically switch into [...]

Kathmandu, May 2 (ANI): Japan’s Vice Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi will arrive here on a two-day visit today.

During his visit, Kishi will inspect the activities of the Japanese Arms Monitors working under the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) to familiarise himself with the activities of UNMIN.

Kishi will also pay a courtesy call to [...]

Kathmandu, May 1 (ANI): Japan’s Vice Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi will arrive here on a two-day visit on Saturday.

During his visit, Kishi will inspect the activities of the Japanese Arms Monitors working under the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) to familiarise himself with the activities of UNMIN.

Kishi will also pay a courtesy call [...]

WASHINGTON: The second-ranking leader of the al-Qaida network, Ayman al-Zawahiri, said in a new video that US President Barack Obama “did not
change anything” in the Muslims’ perception of the United States, al-Qaeda monitors said.
“The new President Obama did not change anything of the image of America towards Muslims and the oppressed,” according to excerpts [...]

BEIJING (Reuters) – International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei on Monday called for new dialogue to solve the diplomatic stand-off with North Korea, adding that he hopes the six-party talks will resume and the IAEA will be allowed back into the country.
“There is no other solution apart from dialogue,” ElBaradei said at a conference [...]

The second-ranking leader of the Al-Qaida network, Ayman al-Zawahiri, said in a new video that US President Barack Obama “did not change anything” in the Muslims’ perception of the United States, Al-Qaida monitors said.
“The new President Obama did not change anything of the image of America towards Muslims and the oppressed,” according to excerpts of [...]

WASHINGTON: The US has warned North Korea of consequences for “kicking out” inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its
monitors from Yongbyon nuclear complex in response to the UN Security Council’s condemnation of Pyongyang’s April five rocket launch.
“They are going to have face the consequences of kicking these personnel out,” State Department Spokesman [...]

London, Mar 28 (ANI): You can now stop worrying about the way you look while sitting, for iPosture a small gadget, which can be stuck on the skin and buzzes to remind the wearer to sit up straight, helping improve posture, has come to your rescue.

The revolutionary device vibrates discretely when the wearer slouches by [...]

Moscow/Tbilisi – Georgia’s interior ministry said Tuesday that two European ceasefire monitors had been detained by South Ossetia militia on the border of the separatist region and Georgia.
A spokesman for the ministry, Shota Utiashvili, told news agency Interfax that the two monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) were detained near [...]

Brussels – European Union foreign ministers were Wednesday holding dinner-time talks in Brussels with their Israeli counterpart, Tzipi Livni, in a bid to convince her to re-open the Gaza crossings and revive the stalled Middle East peace process.
“We hope we can find an agreement that will make it possible for supplies to get into [...]

Brussels/Prague – Ukraine and Russia remained at loggerheads Thursday over the deployment of international experts to monitor gas flows through Ukraine, European Union officials said.
While both sides have agreed that international monitors could play a role in solving the standoff which has crippled gas supplies to Europe, officials said that no final agreement on a [...]

Tel Aviv, Jan.6 (ANI): Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’’s toxic comments Sunday that Israel’’s actions in the Gaza Strip would lead to punishment from Allah and Israel’’s “self-destruction” has drawn a strong protest from the Israeli Foreign Ministry, which told Turkey’’s ambassador to Israel that these words were “unacceptable” among friendly nations.
Erdogan, speaking at [...]

Munich – When it comes to colours being displayed on computer monitors, many computer users cannot be blamed for being confused. After all, the white on the screen is not really white. Monitor technology itself often disrupts the neutral depiction of colours: imperfect circuitry or tubes may cause the image to have a reddish [...]