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Rohtang Pass (Manali), Sep 10 (ANI): Tourists enjoyed fresh snowfall in the high peaks of Rohtang Pass above Manali in Himachal Pradesh.

The 13,050 feet high Rohtang pass, covered with six inches thick cover of snow, has had an unusually early snowfall [...]

London, Sep 10 (ANI): Pakistan-based terrorists are exploiting Britain’s shoddy visa system to come to the country.

Pakistan is considered by Britain as the No.1 base for Islamic extremists brainwashing potential terrorists.

More than 60,000 Pakistanis were given UK visas in the past nine months, but only 29 underwent face-to-face security interviews, The Sun reports. [...]

Washington, Sept 10 (ANI): ‘Dancing with the Stars’ contestant Kelly Osbourne has blamed her genes for her drug addiction.

Kelly’s father, rockstar Ozzy Osbourne, has had a long struggle with drugs, which makes her believe her DNA was pre-programmed to make her an addict.

Contactmusic quoted Kelly as telling BBC Radio 5 Live: “I don’t have any [...]

Islamabad, Aug.29 (ANI): The Indo-Pak Foreign Secretary level talks will be held in mid September in New York, the Pakistan Foreign Office has said.

According to sources, India Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao will meet her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir on the margins of the 64th UN General Assembly.

Sources said the prime focus in the [...]

Washington, August 25 (ANI): Experts have expressed doubts over the use of cranberry juice as a preventative against urinary tract infections (UTIs).

Dr. Raz, Director of Infectious Diseases at the Technion School of Medicine in Israel, said that the present clinical evidence for using cranberry juice and related products to fight the common ailment was ‘unsatisfactory [...]

Washington, Aug 24 (ANI): Pink Floyd star Roger Waters has lent his voice to a new short film ‘Walled Horizons’ that focuses on the hardships of Palestinians living in the shadow of Israel’s controversial separation barrier.

The rocker narrates the 15-minute film, which was made to mark the fifth anniversary of the International Court of Justice’s [...]

London, August 19 (ANI): A Tunisian woman, recently reported to be due to give birth to a record-breaking 12 babies, has gone into hiding after being exposed as a fraud.

The North African teacher, from Gafsa, had claimed that she was expecting six boys and [...]

London, July 15 (ANI): Simon Cowell is in talks to sign a 100million pounds-a-year ‘American Idol’ contract, which could make him the highest paid star in TV history.

By sealing the US deal with Fox, Cowell will quadruple his current 25million pounds a year, which means that he would rake in a whopping 2.2million pounds an [...]

New Delhi, July 9 (ANI): After space tourism, it is astro-tourism that is catching up people’s fancy, courtesy the ensuing total solar eclipse.

Air charter and tourist operators in India are receiving an overwhelming response for chartered flights to view total solar eclipse of longest duration in 21st century.

All set to take place on [...]

Washington, July 8 (ANI): The subsequent release of Lashkar-e-Toiba’s (LeT) chief Hafeez Muhammad Saeed, the hardcore Lal Masjid cleric Maulana Abdullah Aziz, and now the Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammed (TNSM) chief Sufi Mohammad has cast serious doubts over Pakistan’s claims that it is seriously acting against the Taliban and other home grown terror outfits, a senior US intelligence [...]

London, July 2 (ANI): A European Commission research has revealed that the United Kingdom has one of the highest rates of violence in the world, making it the violent crime capital of Europe.

The commission’s research was based on combined crime statistics [...]

Washington, July 1 (ANI): Michael Jackson’s friend Deepak Chopra has joined other critics in casting a shadow of doubt over the actions of the late singer’s doctor in the star’s finals moments.

Dr. Conrad Murray was said to have spent 30 minutes performing CPR on the unconscious King of Pop before calling 911.

He evoked serious criticism [...]

London, June 25 (ANI): According to a United Nations drugs report, more than one million people in Britain are cocaine users, with one in 20 school children also having tried it, making Britain the cocaine capital of Europe.

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime found that even three per cent of 15 and 16 year-olds [...]

London, June 24 (ANI): When it comes to actors swearing in films, the viewers can pardon any star other than Dame Judi Dench for using foul language on screen, according to the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).

The BBFC says that there exists a phenomenon, called the [...]

London, May 30 (ANI): The war for Ashes 2009 has begun with Australian captain Ricky Ponting firing the first salvo, questioning whether England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff will be any good this summer.

Flintoff underwent knee surgery in April and has not yet started running properly. He sustained the injury in the megabucks Indian Premier League in [...]

London, May 16 (ANI): An arnica product has become the homeopathic remedy to receive a first licence nod from the British medicines regulator under controversial new rules.

The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency [...]

Washington, May 14 (ANI): A new study has shown that the amount of oil residue in seafloor sediments that result from natural petroleum seeps off Santa Barbara, California, is the equivalent of approximately 8-80 Exxon Valdez oil spills.

Researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the [...]

London, May 14 (ANI): British educationists are worried that children these days are not growing properly because they spend hours on the Internet rather than playing traditional outdoor games, which, by teaching basic skills, prepare one for adult life.

John Gibson, the Chairman of the Independent Schools Association, while speaking at the institution’s annual [...]

London, May 9 (ANI): British MPs have put in claims for items from the common to the bizarre. Now, The Sun has presented their own ABC list of greed.

A is for AGA: A Tory charged 160 pounds for his annual Aga service.

B is for BREAD BIN: Labour backbencher claimed for a 20 pounds [...]

New Delhi, May 8 (ANI): If India has to become a major player in the 21st century, a major reappraisal of India’s foreign policy is needed.

This is the argument of a new book “Challenge and Strategy: Rethinking India’s Foreign Policy by Rajiv Sikri.

The former diplomat in his lucidly written book examines India’s current and [...]