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Washington, Sept 20 (ANI): As cold and flu season approaches, giving up junk food for more healthy options would help maintain a strong immune system.

Dr Ara DerMarderosian, professor of pharmacognosy for University of the Sciences in Philadelphia and an expert in nutraceuticals and natural foods, have provided guidance to change how you eat and break [...]

London, Sep 4 (ANI): A survey has revealed that chavs, who are typically portrayed as uncultured, anti-social, baseball cap wearing youths, have topped the list of the 100 most annoying things Brits find.

The survey revealed that more than 60 percent people found chavs [...]

New Delhi, September 2 (ANI): A pet dog has saved three children from drowning in a raging river in China.

One child, however, died in the incident that took place in Tianmen, Hubei province, on Sunday.

Hua Hua had accompanied the four primary school students from the Fangwan village to a nearby riverbank.

When it saw [...]

Lahore, Sep.2 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Secretary General Mushahid Hussain Sayed has said that former President General Pervez Musharraf had left the country after inking a deal with the present government regarding not being prosecuted under high treason charges, and that one call from Saudi government would silence Musharraf’s trial seekers.

Speaking on a television [...]

Washington, Aug 25 (ANI): Aussie researchers are developing a tool that can use sound waves to identify early stages of tooth decay by measuring the mineral content of teeth.

Tooth decay begins by acid-forming bacteria eating away at the enamel, causing minerals to leach from it, softening, and weakening the tooth.

Sometimes dentists can identify this demineralisation [...]

London, Aug.24 (ANI): England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff, who is to go under the knife on Tuesday, will take his wife Rachael, parents and kids out for dinner, to celebrate the return of the Ashes with the 197-run victory over Australia at The Oval.

“I will take the missus out for dinner and spend the day with [...]

London, Aug 23 (ANI): Former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Frazier, who is famous for his trilogy of Heavyweight Championship fights with Muhammad Ali, has said that he still retains a disdain for the treatment he received from Ali.

Frazier, [...]

London, August 18 (ANI): British scientists have discovered a deadly plant that eats rats, and is believed to be the largest meat-eating shrub.

According to a report in The Sun, the giant pitcher plant lures rodents into its slipper-shaped mouth and dissolves them with acid-like enzymes.

Scientists, led by botanists Stewart McPherson and Alastair Robinson, tracked it [...]

Washington, Aug 8 (ANI): Using scary metaphors for any kind of natural disaster or health scare can not only make people notice it, but it can also spread panic or cynicism among populations, according to a study.

“Such terms can make people sit up and listen, but they can also lead to panic or cynicism,” said [...]

Washington, July 16 (ANI): Scientists have discovered the most complete skeleton of a type of pot-bellied dinosaur, a therizinosaur, in southern Utah, US, which had claws like that of the fictional ‘X-Men’ character ‘Wolverine’.

According to a report in National Geographic News, dubbed Nothronychus graffami, the 13-foot-tall (4-meter-tall) therizinosaur lived about 92.5 million years ago in [...]

Washington, July 14 (ANI): Black Eyed Peas singer Stacy Ann Ferguson, aka Fergie, has vowed to clean up her “filthy” language during the band’s stage shows.

Fergie, 34, who had embraced her sexual side during her solo career, and turned stage shows [...]

Washington, July 11 (ANI): Barack Obama’s staff called the owner of a religious gift shop in Philadelphia, Louis DiCocco, for advice as to what gift should be given to Pope Benedict XVI when the U.S. President meets him.

“Someone there remembered us from the Pope’s last visit,” the Washington Post quoted DiCocco as saying in a [...]

Washington, July 10 (ANI): Dental disease may be a warning that the high-glycemic diet that led to dental problems in the short term may, in the long term, cause harm to the body.

“The five-alarm fire bell of a tooth ache is difficult to ignore,” [...]

Washington, July 10 (ANI): A new study has ranked ‘hotspots’ among coastal marine ecosystems that are at risk worldwide as a result of human activities.

The study, by scientists at UC (University of California) Santa Barbara, US, is the first integrated analysis of all coastal areas of the world.

“Resource management and conservation in coastal waters must [...]

Washington, July 10 (ANI): Clinical studies conducted recently have established a strong link between periodontal disease and cardiovascular disease (CVD).

Marvin J. Slepian and and Neil R. Gottehrer, who will lead a discussion titled ‘Oral Body Inflammation Connection’ during the 57th Annual Meeting of the Academy of General Dentistry (AGD) in Baltimore, say that these [...]

Washington, July 8 (ANI): Florida Atlantic University engineers in Boca Raton are working on a superior new face recognition technique that can see through disguises.

Lin Huang, from the university’s Department of Engineering, says that every face has special features that define people, yet faces can also be very similar.

The researcher adds that this is what [...]

London, July 7 (ANI): Megan Fox has gone topless for a scene in her new horror movie ‘Jennifer’s Body’.

The ‘Transformers’ beauty roams around through a jungle topless for the scene in the film, which has her in the role of a demon-possessed cheerleader who turns men into bloody pulps, reports the Sun.

To add spooky zing [...]

London, July 6 (IANS) Model-turned-actress Megan Fox has gone topless for a scene in her new horror movie “Jennifer’s Body”.
Fox roamed around through a jungle topless for the scene in the film, which has her in the role of a demon-possessed cheerleader who turns men into bloody pulps, reports thesun.co.uk.
To add spooky zing to the [...]

Washington, July 2 (ANI): Contrary to all suggestions regarding Richard Wagner’s “difficult” reputation, a new study now suggests that the German composer used to set his text to music in a way that uses the acoustics of the soprano voice in a manner that helps both performers and listeners.

“Each vowel in European languages is associated [...]

Washington, July 1(ANI): Scientists have developed a novel headset that makes it possible for a person suffering from spinal cord injury to precisely control a wheelchair or computer using the tongue.

The “tongue drive”, being trialled at Georgia Tech University, Atlanta, could also [...]