Baghdad, May 10 (IANS) At least seven security personnel were killed and 20 injured Saturday in a suicide tanker bomb attack in Iraq, an official said. The attack occurred when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden tanker into an army checkpoint in Salahudin province, the official told Xinhua. The suicide bomber targeted the checkpoint while a […]
New York, May 10 (IANS) The age-old East-West debate has just got a new twist as a study suggested that if you come from a culture that values independence and individualism, it may be because you belong to a region that has traditionally cultivated wheat. The opposite is true for people in the rice growing regions; […]
London, May 10 (IANS) BBC’s TV show “BBC Breakfast” temporarily went off air and the staff were forced to evacuate the building during a fire scare. An alarm was set off at the broadcaster’s buildings in Salford Friday and those both in front and behind the cameras on “BBC Breakfast” had to leave the studio and […]
London, May 10 (IANS) Don’t get depressed if she has refused to go on a date with you owing to your short height. Tell her you are going to stay longer on earth for better chances knocking on your door! According to research on Japanese men, shorter men are more likely to have a protective form […]
Toronto, May 10 (IANS) If you could not make sense of a childhood story that your parents and neighbours related, you are not alone; childhood memories do fade and researchers have found that growth of new cells in brain could erase old memories to make way for new ones. Newly-formed neurons in the hippocampus (an area […]
Islamabad, May 10 (IANS) A court in Pakistan Saturday asked police to submit details of the case of an agent of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), who was arrested for carrying ammunition at an airport. Police said Joel Cox was arrested Monday evening while attempting to board a domestic flight in the port city […]
Bangkok, May 10 (IANS) Pro-government supporters in Thailand staged a rally Saturday a day after anti-government protestors marched in Bangkok in a “final battle” to oust the caretaker government and to usher in reform before the next election. The United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) has urged its supporters, called Red Shirts, to avoid actions […]
London, May 10 (IANS) Slim people in the streets of European countries may be a rare sight by 2030 as a study projected that rates of obesity and overweight in both male and females would go up in almost all European countries. However, the forecast rates vary throughout the 53 Euro-region countries, with projected male obesity […]
Washington, May 10 (IANS) Air and surface sampling could be vital to detecting biological terrorism and preventing potential loss of lives, according to an experiment. “This experiment confirmed that a biological attack could be detected earlier using air sampling which means public health would have more time to respond,” said Alexander Garza, an associate professor of […]
Islamabad, May 9 (IANS) At least two people were killed and 50 wounded when an earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale jolted Pakistan’s Sindh province early Friday, authorities said. The roofs of several buildings in Nawabshah district collapsed due to the intensity of the earthquake, Dawn online reported. The epicentre of the earthquake was 27 […]