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Indigenous singer-songwriter Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu has scored a US release for his platinum-selling debut album.
The self-titled record by the blind singer from Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory picked up a string of awards following its release in 2008, including an ARIA for best independent album.
It will be released in the US on the Dramatico [...]

London, September 16 (ANI): Facebook has announced that it has crossed a benchmark of 300 million active monthly users from across the world and also started raking in profits ahead of schedule.

Founder of the world’s largest social networking site Mark Zuckerberg said the company had not expected to begin reaping financial benefits until sometime next [...]

Washington, September 13 (ANI): In a new study, scientists have found that even a simple road can turn subsistence communities into commercial hunting camps that empty rainforests of their wildlife.

The study was carried out by researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the IDEAS-Universidad San Francisco de Quito at Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park.

The researchers, [...]

San Francisco, Sep 10(ANI): The Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, making his first public appearance since his return to work in June after six months’ medical leave, has admitted of a liver transplant.

Jobs admitted this on the sidelines of a press conference San Francisco, where [...]

London, Sep.8 (ANI): New evidence put before a British jury during a retrial of three Brit Muslim convicts suggests that the men used code words to discuss their plans with an al-Qaeda fixer based in Pakistan.

The e-mails and conversations suggest that the plot was in its final stages, possibly days away from execution in [...]

London, September 8 (ANI): The world’s smallest parrot, which is not much bigger than an adult person’s thumb, has been filmed in the wild for the first time.

According to a report by BBC News, an expedition team filming in Papua New Guinea for the BBC programme ‘Lost Land of the Volcano’ caught two of the [...]

Washington, Sept 8 (ANI): A simple jab may soon help prevent prostate cancer, say researchers.

The research team from University of Utah and University of Columbia have identified a virus, known to trigger leukaemia, in malignant human prostate cancer cells.

The research team hopes that the virus, XMRV (Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus), would open opportunities [...]

London, September 5 (ANI): A 66-million-year-old Tyrannosaurs Rex dinosaur is being put up for sale at an auction in Las Vegas.

The 170 fossilised bones dubbed ‘Samson’ was said to be the third most complete T. rex skeleton ever discovered.

According to San Francisco-based auctioneer Bonhams and Butterfields, it is expected to fetch more than [...]

London, Aug 30 (ANI): A filthy, ramshackle secret garden, hidden inside ‘American Fritzl’ Phillip Garrido’s house in the small town of Antioch, east of San Francisco, has been revealed to be the place where he kept Jaycee Lee Dugard as sex slave for 18 years and fathered two children with her.

Jaycee – kidnapped from a [...]

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Terrell Eldorado Owens born on December 7, 1973 in Alexander City, Alabama is an American football wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League.
A six-time Pro Bowl selection, and holder of the league single-game reception record, Owens has been one [...]

Colonial Bank Failure | Colonial Bancgroup | Colonial Bank Collapse | BB&T Corp | Colonial Bank goes Down
San Francisco – Colonial BancGroup Inc. became the largest bank failure this year Friday after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation seized the struggling Alabama-based lender and sold it to BB&T Corp. This failure is considered to be the [...]

Washington, July 15 (ANI): A ‘heart healthy’ diet and taking moderate exercise can protect against cognitive decline, according to two new studies.

Researchers at Utah State University in the US found that over-65s on a diet full of green leafy vegetables, oily fish and the odd glass of red wine scored higher in mental tests.

A separate [...]

London, July 02(ANI): Oscar winning actor Karl Malden has died at the age of 97 at his home in Los Angeles.

His family said that the actor had been in poor health for several years and his death occurred due to natural causes, reports the BBC.

Malden, who rarely played the lead in the films he did, [...]

Washington, July 1 (ANI): President Barack Obama’s claims of broad executive authority to carry out the war on terror are drawing fire from an unexpected source: federal judges nominated by President George W. Bush, who asserted the sweeping powers in the first place.

In recent weeks, three different Bush appointees considering cases relating to war-on-terror [...]

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San Francisco, July 1 (DPA) A new version of the Internet browser Firefox was released Tuesday, offering users more speed and privacy and greater compliance with new Internet video standards.
The release of Firefox 3.5 came as the open [...]

Washington, June 30 (ANI): An electrochemical process for coating metal implants which vastly improves their functionality, longevity and integration into the body has been developed by a Tel Aviv University researcher.

Brainchild of Prof. Noam Eliaz of the TAU School of Mechanical Engineering, [...]

Chicago Pride Parade – Pride Parade Chicago – Chicago Pride – Taste of Chicago – Chicago Pride 2009 – Pride Fest kicks off Pride Weekend in Chicago – Pride parade hits Market Street on Sunday – Parade flooded the streets of San Francisco this weekend
Chicago Pride Fest, a two-day Parade flooded the streets of San [...]

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 [...]

Washington, June 26 (ANI): It’s not just age, partner’s health and interest in sex too have significant impact on sexual activity among middle-aged and elderly women, say researchers.

During the study, the team from University of California, San Francisco and Kaiser Permanente examined 2,000 women, aged 45 to 80 years old, 43 percent reported at [...]