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Washington, September 11 (ANI): A research mission has located and identified the final resting place of the YP-389, a US Navy patrol boat sunk approximately 20 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, by a German submarine during World War II.

Six sailors [...]

Washington, May 10 (ANI): Jennifer Lopez and Cris Judd, Tom Green and Drew Barrymore, Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson, Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley are some of the names that have made it to the list of shortest celebrity marriages in Hollywood.

Fox News has put together a list of famous couples who headed for [...]

Baltimore, May 8 (ANI): Former Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps is back in the pool to the delight of trainer Dawn-Marie Caingrinned.

Phelps practiced a few of his famed trade mark strokes inside the pool at the Loyola College Fitness and Aquatic Center here.
Weeks after he considered walking away from the sport for good, Phelps peppered [...]

Washington, Apr 18 (ANI): Hollywood actor Mickey Rourke has revealed that he was reduced to tears when he received a letter from Kim Basinger, stating that she utterly loved his performance in ‘The Wrestler’.

Rourke, who acted alongside Kim in 91/2 Weeks, revealed that letter to him was like winning accolades.

“Coming from her, it was very [...]

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – TNT has canceled its low-rated freshman drama “Trust Me,” which starred Eric McCormack and Tom Cavanagh as ad-agency executives.
The show garnered middling reviews, and its January 26 premiere drew 3.4 million viewers, losing 50 percent of its lead-in from “The Closer.” A week later, “Trust Me” dropped to 1.9 million [...]

Washington, Feb 22 (IANS) Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf were close to signing an accord to end the decades-old conflict over Kashmir after three years of secret talks but failed to achieve the vital breakthrough, media reports here said.
The peace initiative is described in an article by investigative journalist [...]

Washington, Feb 14 (ANI): When struck by cupid’s arrow our cheeks flush, palms sweat and hearts start racing, and scientists have now found the reason behind all these signs of love-chemical reactions in the body.

Loyola University Health System love guru Domeena Renshaw says that falling in love causes the body to release some chemicals that [...]

Geneva – The United Nations’ World Food Programme said Friday it had very limited access to the conflict zone in northern Sri Lanka and had not been able to deliver aid for weeks.
A four-hour humanitarian “window” was supposed to be opened each Thursday, but the agency has not been able to send in food aid [...]

Washington, Feb 8 (ANI): Wondering why the bloke you went out with last night has not called back yet? Don’t console yourself by thinking he’s shy, the truth is he’s just not into you.

A researcher has delved into the female psyche to uncover why women pursue men that are just not that into them.

According to [...]

Madrid – Struggling Spanish Liga side announced early on Tuesday the sacking of coach Mane.
Mane, whose full name is Jose Manuel Esnal, had only been in the job for six weeks, since taking over from Bartolome Marquez in November.
The final nail in Mane’s coffin was Sunday’s 4-0 thrashing away to Malaga, a result which leaves [...]

Budapest  – One of three terminals at Budapest’s Ferihegy International Airport was closed from 4 pm Monday as ground staff resumed a strike over pay and conditions.
In a repeat of the first days of industrial action six weeks earlier, crowds of hundreds of confused passengers amassed in the check-in area after security gates were closed.
Ground [...]

Melbourne – Realistic Roger Federer is well aware that a jam-packed annual tennis calendar will almost certainly not allow the Australian Open to move from its traditional January date.
Despite voicing the opinion this week that the Open would be more pleasing to players were it slid a few weeks into February – more time [...]

Gaza City/Tel Aviv – After three weeks of relentless Israeli air strikes and two weeks of heavy ground fighting, Gazans, exhausted, are hoping the end may be near, but also afraid to face the devastation around them once a truce is in place.
A huge rehabilitation effort will be needed to rebuild the buildings and [...]

London, January 12 (ANI): Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have announced the discovery of an enzyme that plays a very important role in controlling the breakdown of fat.
The researchers said that in a study conducted by them, mice that had this enzyme disabled remained lean despite eating a high-fat diet, and losing a [...]

Sydney, Jan 9 (ANI): Australians work the longest hours in the developed world, according to a new study.
One third of full-time workers won’t take any annual leave this year, according the country’’s largest ever study into annual leave accrual by Tourism Australia.
Almost 60 per cent of full-timers don”t use their four weeks holidays each year [...]

London, Jan 9 (ANI): An experimental nasal spray vaccine has shown promising results in providing protection against a major botulism toxin that can cause rare but serious paralytic illness.
The researchers are pioneering a botulism vaccine that adds a second layer of immune protection against exposure to botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs). It would prime the disease-fighting cells [...]

New York, Jan 9 (ANI): US president George W. Bush has been issued a warning that he has only two weeks left to keep the tradition that has been going on at famed eatery ‘21’.
Dubya had eaten at ‘21’ when he was the Governor of Texas, but the eatery is determined that he visits them [...]

Sydney, Jan.8 (ANI): Proteas captain Graeme Smith has declared England favourites for this year’’s Ashes series in a parting shot at Australia’’s fading Test team.
Speaking after the conclusion of the third Test at the SCG, Smith predicted arch-enemy England would prove too strong for Australia when the fight for the Ashes resumes in England in [...]

London, Jan 8 (ANI): A new study by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has warned that women who choose repeat cesarean deliveries and have them at term but before completing 39 weeks gestation are up to two times more likely to have a baby with serious complications including respiratory distress.
The research [...]

London, Jan.7 (ANI): England’s cricket establishment was in complete disarray on Wednesday after both captain Kevin Pietersen and team coach Peter Moores declared that they were quitting their respective posts as the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has failed to resolve their differences.
Sky News quoted Pietersen as saying that: “I am not in a [...]