Monday, May 11th, 2009
Peshawar, May 11 (ANI): Ten people have been killed and more than 15 including were injured when a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden car near a Frontier Constabulary security checkpoint in tribal area of Darra Adam Khel in northwestern Pakistan.
The attack hit the outskirts of Darra Adam Khel, a town ...
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Sunday, May 10th, 2009
Chennai, May 9 (ANI): Clearing the air over the Lankan-Tamil issue and its effects on the Congress-DMK alliance, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Saturday said the two parties are political partners in the state and would continue to remain so.
"Congress' alliance with DMK has stood the test of ...
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Saturday, May 9th, 2009
Islamabad, May 9 (ANI): At least eight persons were killed and seven others injured in a suspected U.S. drone strike at Sararogha area in South Waziristan Agency (SWA) on Saturday, The News reported.
According to sources the U.S. Predator drone aircrafts targeted a house and madrassa in the region firing four ...
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Saturday, May 9th, 2009
Washington, May 9 (ANI): The discovery of giant trilobites in northern Portugal reveals the once ubiquitous marine creature mated in groups and used its numbers for protection.
Trilobites once roamed the sea floor, but were wiped out in the Permian-Triassic extinction, 250 million years ago.
These marine arthropods, typically less than ...
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
New York, May 07 (ANI): Canadian actor Kiefer Sutherland is expected to surrender to New York Police to answer the complaint involving fashion designer Jack McCollough and actor Brooke Shields.
Sutherland landed in legal trouble after he allegedly assaulted McCollough at an early morning party in New York City.
Sources say that ...
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Washington, May 7 (ANI): A study suggests that the use of drug-eluting stents on heart attack patients undergoing angioplasty is more effective and as safe as that of bare-metal stents.
Lead researcher Dr. Gregg W. Stone, a professor of medicine at Columbia University Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, has revealed that in ...
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Washington, May 7 (ANI): Scientists have found that the medicines used for the treatment of heartburn and ulcers can reduce the anti-clotting action of the medication clopidogrel, thereby resulting in about 50 per cent increase in the combined risk of hospitalisation for heart attack, stroke, and other serious cardiovascular illnesses. ...
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
New York, May 6 (ANI): Pictures of an ill-conceived photo-operation, designed to capture one of the president's planes near national landmarks like the Statue of Liberty, will be kept under wraps.
As part of a photo-op carried out by the US Defense Department, a 747 and supersonic jet fighter might have ...
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
London, May 6 (ANI): Forty-six-year-old Connie Culp, a shotgun attack victim who was the first person in the U.S. to receive a near-total face transplant, has unveiled the results of her surgery.
The woman was left without a nose, a palate or lower eyelids after being attacked by her husband in ...
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Barnala (Punjab), May 6 (ANI): Taking a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi has said that he 'has never seen a weak Sikh.'
Wooing Sikhs who form the majority in Punjab, Gandhi lashed out at the BJP for calling the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh 'as ...
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