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Berlin, Aug. 28 (ANI): Germany has handed over 29 yellowing blueprints of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The blueprints give chilling details, with gas chambers, crematoria, delousing facilities and watchtowers drawn to [...]

Washington, July 10 (ANI): Scientists from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre have identified a protein that helps TB bacteria resist immune response, and remain latent in the body for decades.

They hope that the new discovery may lead to new [...]

London, May 27 (ANI): A dog got stuck in a rabbit hole in Haverfordwest, West Wales, and could manage to crawl out only after it lost a third of his body weight due to starvation for 25 days.

Well-fed Jack Russell Jake lost 2kg when it came out of the hole, and vets feared [...]

Harare (Zimbabwe), May 26 (ANI): Zimbabwe could collapse into “complete anarchy” in a year if foreign aid does not bolster it’s failing economy, a former judge has told Sky News Online.

The nation is battling to pay nurses, teachers, police and soldiers, despite adopting the [...]

Harare, May 19 (ANI): At least 700 out of the 1300 inmates in Zimbabwe’s maximum security jail have died of starvation or disease in the last year.
Due to its death rate, Chikurubi prison, located on the outskirts of Harare, has been touted as one of the worst jails in history.

On Sunday alone, six prisoners were [...]

Washington, Apr 30 (ANI): Hollywood actress Mia Farrow has revealed that magician David Blaine gave her some tips on how to endure her hunger strike for Darfur.

The 64-year-old actress, who is three days into her own starvation stunt, admits her mind is feeling “muddled and swimming”.

Farrow said that she is getting advice from Blaine, [...]

London, Apr.28 (ANI): Polish construction crew renovating a cellar near the notorious Auschwitz death camp in Poland have discovered a letter written by prisoners more than 60 years ago.
The note, written in pencil then rolled up and inserted in a bottle, contains the names of seven young people who probably thought they were doomed to [...]

Washington, April 27 (ANI): Scientists have discovered a dinosaur tooth along what’s now the Kakanaut River of northeastern Russia, a find that shows dinos once lived above the Arctic Circle.

Scientists say the dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago when a big meteor crash set off volcanoes galore, with dust and smoke filling up the [...]

Auschwitz (Poland), April 26: President Pratibha Devisingh Patil here on Sunday paid homage to the victims of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where at Nazi forces killed least 1.1 million Jews during World War II.

On visit to the concentration camps, put up by [...]

Washington, April 24 (ANI): Mia Farrow has bulked up in a bid to prepare for a three-week fast, which has been planned to draw attention to the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan.

The actress will begin her water only strike from the end of April (09), despite doctors fears she could cause [...]

London, April 14 (ANI): A cat in Britain has set himself apart from his fellow felines by refusing to eat anything to do with meat and instead wolfing down only organic fruit and vegetables.

Dante was rescued by his owner Becky Page, from Tasburgh, near Norwich, who found him on the edge of starvation.

The two-year-old walks [...]

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THE RAIN gods have beaten politicians this year in drought-prone Bundelkhand. A bumper monsoon – the first in 10 years – has led to a bumper crop.
And election time is also harvesting season in the region’s seven impoverished, parched districts. “We’ll think about the elections later,” says Ramakant Patel, (43) overseeing workers on his 70-acre [...]

Johannesburg (South Africa), Apr.1 (ANI): A horrifying investigative film has exposed how prisoners in President Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe are dying from either disease or hunger.

The documentary, shown last night on South Africa’s state broadcaster SABC, documented the “living hell” for prisoners across 55 state institutions.

“Hell Hole”, as the film is titled, is a grim [...]

London, March 27 (ANI): A new research has determined that warm summers are dramatically reducing populations of daddy long legs, which in turn is having a severe impact on the bird populations which rely on them for food.

The new research, by a team of bird experts, including Newcastle University’s Dr Mark Whittingham, spells out for [...]

Washington, Feb 16 (ANI): The Global Crop Diversity Trust has announced that it is on track to save from extinction 100,000 different varieties of food crops from 46 countries, making it one of the largest and most successful biological rescue efforts ever undertaken in history.

“We are moving quickly to regenerate and preserve seed samples representing [...]

New York, January 28 (ANI): Lindsay Lohan’s representative has rubbished reports that the star is battling an eating disorder, after snaps of the actress looking shockingly thin surfaced.

The actress was said to be heading back to her former skinny self following speculations claiming relationship trouble with girl lover Samantha Ross.

The ‘Mean Girls’ star was rumoured [...]

Nairobi – Tens of thousands of Kenyans celebrated Barack Obama’s inauguration at parties across the east African nation as images of their favourite son were beamed onto big screens.
Thousands gathered at a public viewing at Nairobi’s Kenyatta International Conference Centre, clapping and cheering as President Obama spoke.
In Kogelo, the Western Kenyan village where his [...]

Harare – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has set a Monday meeting with opposition leaders as the last chance to present concerns before a government is formed, with or without them.
“This is the occasion when it’s either they accept or it’s a break,” said Mugabe, quoted in the state-owned Sunday Mail. “After all, this is [...]

London, Jan 16 (ANI): Queen of pop Madonna still manages to look half her age even at 50, and it is all thanks to the rigorous diet and exercise regime her personal trainer Tracy Anderson has put her on.
Madge follows a gruelling two-hour workout six days a week, and Anderson, 33, remains at her side [...]