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London, Feb 22 (PTI) A report that will further embarrass Gordon Brown led British government, UK security agents were “complicit” in torture of at least 10 Britons in collusion with Pakistan’s ISI and the network “run much deeper”. “The issue is not just British complicity in the torture of British citizens, it is the issue [...]

By Sharon Jayson, USA TODAY
Young adults today aren’t any healthier than 10 to 15 years ago, and in some cases — obesity, for one — they are significantly less so, says a federal report on the nation’s health released Wednesday.
The annual report, from the National Center for Health Statistics, is based on the most recent [...]

Gold touched new heights at Rs 15,200 per 10 gram in the morning trading in Delhi, in line with significant rise in gold prices in the international market. Another reason for high price in India was decline in Indian currency and stock market.
Stockists kept on buying the precious metal, considering it as the safest investment [...]

Washington, Feb 9 (IANS) Biotech scientists have teamed up with curators to stem the decay of world’s art and cultural heritage, hastened by the depredations of climate change.
Many of the world’s cultural treasures are created out of organic materials like paper, canvas, wood and leather which, in prolonged warmth and dampness, attract mould, micro-organisms and [...]

New Delhi, Jan.28 (ANI): Prasar Bharati CEO B.S. Lalli and UNICEF India Representative Karin Hulshof have signed a broadcast agreement for Phase 2 of the Facts for Life entertainment-education drama serial, Kyunki…Jeena Issi Ka Naam Hai (Because… That’s What Life Is).
In an unprecedented partnership between India’s public broadcaster and UNICEF, the signing is a go [...]

Riga – The Latvian government breathed a collective sigh of relief Tuesday when European Union finance ministers meeting in Brussels approved payment of the EU’s 3.1-billion-euro (4-billion- dollar) slice of a 7.5-billion-euro (9.7-billion-dollar) economic assistance package brokered by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The funds for Latvia will be available in six instalments paid over [...]

Caracas  – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday called upon his followers “not to get overexcited” with incoming US President Barack Obama.
“Today is particularly significant at the international level because a new president takes over the United States presidency today. Let no one get overexcited, this is the North American empire,” Chavez said.
The left-wing populist [...]

Berlin – Germany was urged to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan in a video believed to have been made by a member of the terrorist network Al-Qaeda.
A German-speaker wearing a black turban and facecloth that left only his eyes visible spoke in the 30-minute video, which was posted on the internet on Saturday.
The message, [...]

Hamburg – WLAN USB sticks that sport the newest N transmission standard can retrieve data from the internet up to four times faster than those working with the prior G standard.
They can also broadcast across longer distances and require up to 50 per cent less energy, reports Hamburg-based Computer Bild.
While devices working with the [...]

Tel Aviv – The Israeli security cabinet was expected to vote Saturday night on a ceasefire proposal, as the military campaign entered its fourth week and airstrikes continued overnight across the Gaza Strip.
The warplanes hit about 50 targets during the night, including rocket launching sites, tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border as well as mosques used [...]

Singapore – Asian’s economy might recover from the recession as early as the second quarter of this year, supported by the governments’ policy responses to the downturn and the sharp drop in commodity prices, a news report said on Wednesday.
“The cavalry is on its way in the form of one of the most significant [...]

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has approached union law ministry to get legal aid on the issue of increasing base price for 3G and broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum allocation. Interestingly, the telecom department is not is the favor of increasing base price of 3G spectrum as it can discourage companies to participate in the [...]

London, Jan 9 (ANI): Muslim advisers have warned British PM Gordon Brown that the Gaza conflict could spark a violent Islamic backlash in Britain.
According to a report in The Sun, the alert came hours after dozens of police officials battled to separate hundreds of demonstrators outside the Israeli Embassy in London.
One cop was hurt and [...]

Washington, Jan 9 (ANI): A new study has revealed that after a sudden rise in species numbers, carbon-dioxide (CO2) gobbling plankton known as diatoms abruptly declined about 33 million years ago, trends that coincided with severe global cooling.
According to a report in Cornell Chronicle Online, the research casts doubt on the long-held theory that diatoms’ [...]

Melbourne, Jan 9 (ANI): Out of form Australian opener Matthew Hayden has vowed that he will not be pushed into retirement, despite selectors appearing to have made the decision for him.
On a dramatic day when Hayden was dropped from the one-day team, chief selector Andrew Hilditch backtracked on an earlier pledge to take the batting [...]

Washington, Jan 9 (ANI): A new study has revealed that counselling via the phone and Internet can help weight management in overweight individuals.
The study compared counselling via phone and e-mail with the standard practice of issuing self-help literature in approximately 1400 workers as an aid to weight management.
The study was conducted by a research team, [...]

London, Jan 9 (ANI): Anti-psychotic drugs prescribed to treat aggression in Alzheimer’’s patients can double their risk of dying, according to a study published in the journal Lancet.
The study, funded by the Alzheimer’s Research Trust, was led by Prof Clive Ballard’s King’s College London team.
To reach the conclusion, researchers reviewed 165 Alzheimer’s patients who were [...]

Washington, Jan 9 (ANI): Scientists already know that the annoying buzz of a mosquito is the sound of love. But now, a new study has shown that males and females flap their wings and change their tune to create a harmonic duet just before mating.
For the study, Cornell University researchers recorded mosquito sound to study [...]

Washington, January 9 (ANI): University of Kentucky scientists in the United States have revealed that long-chain fats like oleic acid, which is found in olive oil, are more prone to induce inflammation.
Erik Eckhardt and his colleagues say that long-chain fats seem to promote increased intestinal absorption of pro-inflammatory bacterial molecules called lipopolysaccharides (LPS).
While dietary [...]

Washington, Jan 8 (ANI): Sharing an experience with another person may change the perception we have of our own self, such as the recognition of our own face, according to a new study.
Published online in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, this study has for the first time shown that the image a person holds of [...]