WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who has been holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy for a year has slammed the Australian government for having abandoned him....
Berlin, June 19 (Xinhua-ANI) Visiting U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday will propose plans for the United States and Russia to further cut strategic nuclear warheads during his high-profile speech at the landmark Brandenburg Gate, a senior U.S. official said....
Mogadishu, June 19 (Xinhua-ANI) Militants on Wednesday launched suicide bomb attacks on the office of United Nations Development Programe (UNDP) in Mogadishu where guards exchanged fire with the gunmen in and around the compound, police and witnesses said....
The turmoil and loss that residents and tourists have undergone in Uttarakhand after flash floods and landslips triggered by the monsoon, is like a bad dream, feel residents. ...
Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi Sinha were spotted promoting their upcoming movie 'Lootera' on the sets of reality show, 'Emotional Atyachaar 4', in Mumbai....
London, June 19 Salma Hayek, who was announced InStyle magazine's July cover girl less than a week ago, has been featured on the cover page of Glamour magazine's summer edition of Glam Belleza Latina....
East Japan Railway Co. has started testing a sign-language interpretation service in Tokyo on Monday using a videophone application on an Apple iPad tablet for guiding hearing-impaired people. ...
The Japan Credit Bureau (JCB), in collaboration with Hua Nan Bank, has announced that it will launch the Nua Nan Bank JCB LOVE TSCC Debit Card in Taiwan in August. ...
An agreement for loan of US$ 255 million (equivalent) from World Bank for the "National AIDS Control Project (NACP-IV)" was signed here today between India and the World Bank. ...
In Vietnam and other locations, patients with central nervous system infections may well be suffering from the effects of a newly discovered virus.
This is according to a study to be published in imBio/i (Regd) , the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology. Researchers have detected the virus in spinal fluid from 4 percent of 642 patients with central nervous system infections of unknown cause, and in an average of 58 percent of fecal samples .......
West Bengal Governor M.K.Narayanan said that with the introduction of sophisticated techniques in cancer detection and therapy like PET-CT scan, preventive oncology has become a critical part of modern healthcare.
"Preventive oncology has become important part. With passage of time, more sophisticated technologies have come forward. PET-CT scans are a quantum leap forward in tomography," Narayanan said while inaugurating the 128 Slice Ingenuity PET-CT scan system .......
According to a clinical in vitro fertilization (IVF) study, the naturally occurring hormone kisspeptin effectively induces egg maturation during infertility treatment.
The results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
Aptly named after the popular chocolate Hershey's kiss candy, kisspeptin was discovered in Hershey, PA, in 1996. Released by the brain in both males and females, the hormone triggers the development .......
For patients with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), age disparities exist in the continuum of care with people younger than 45 years less likely to be aware of their infection or to have a suppressed viral load.
This is according to a report published Online First by iJAMA Internal Medicine/i, a JAMA Network publication.
Early diagnosis, prompt and sustained care, and antiretroviral therapy (ART) are associated with reduced morbidity, mortality .......
Chelsea striker Fernando Torres has expressed his desperation to finally prove himself at Stamford Bridge under new boss Jose Mourinho, and hopes to persuade Mourinho that he is still the man to fire the Blues to glory....
