Thursday, May 7th, 2009
London, May 7 (ANI): A group of scientists have identified three genes that specifically mediate the metastasis, or spread, of breast cancer to the brain and how.
Researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) have found that COX2 and HB-EGF - genes that induce cancer cell mobility and invasiveness - are ...
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Kuching, May 6 (ANI): The Malaysian Custom Department has detained an Indian who was trying to smuggling ketamine worth 382,655 ringgits through the Kuching International Airport.
The 32-year-old, who flew in from New Delhi, was held when he was behaving suspiciously. The man has been remanded for four days.
His two ...
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
London, May 5 (ANI): Burlesque artist Dita Von Teese has further wooed her German fans by stripping off on a national TV show.
Von Teese, 36, will be performing with the nation's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest on May 16, reports the Sun.
And she gave fans a peek at what ...
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Monday, May 4th, 2009
Sydney, May 4 (ANI): Australian tennis player Jelena Dokic has said that her father, Damir, physically abused her during their tumultuous relationship.
Dokic, who is estranged from her father, told how she had fled from her family in 2002 to escape the violence.
In an exclusive interview with the Fairfax magazine Sport ...
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Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
London, May 2 (ANI): Mills and Boon, the biggest, most breathless romance publisher in the world, has completed its search for fresh literary talent. And its first writer from India is Milan Vohra.
In the hope of discovering new literary talent to appeal to the country's expanding middle class, ...
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Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
Melbourne, May 1 (ANI): As Tourism Queenland's 'best job in the world' campaign enters its final stage, Taiwan's wild card entry Clare Wang has been touted as the winner of Great Barrier Reef's much-publicised caretaker job.
An interpreter by profession, Wang made it to the competition by ...
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
London, Apr 30 (ANI): Dita Von Teese is set to steal the Eurovision title for Germany, for she has joined hands with country's entry into the annual popfest.
The burlesque sex kitten will appear on stage alongside Alex Christensen and Oscar Loya to play the part of 'Miss Kiss Kiss Bang' ...
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
London, Apr 30 (ANI): British MPs belonging to the Labour Party and the Conservative Party have backed a Liberal Democrat motion by 267 votes to 246 to give Gurkhas the right to live in the UK, dealing a major blow to the Gordon Brown Government over his refusal to allow ...
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Colombo, Apr.29 (ANI): British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has met with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama and urged him and the Sri Lankan Government to put a cease-fire in place.
Bogollagama is reported to have told Miliband and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner that Colombo is doing everything possible to ...
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Washington, Apr 28 (ANI): While there are many methods to prevent transmission of HIV, scientists have now claimed that a new vaginal cream containing a reawakened protein could someday prevent the transfer of the deadly virus.
Researchers at the University of Central Florida in Orlando have revived a dormant gene found ...
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