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By vani • September 3rd, 2010

London, Sep 03 (ANI): Guns N” Roses band walked off stage while performing in Dublin after being booed and having plastic bottles thrown at them by the fans.
Fans were upset after Axl Rose’’s band arrived nearly an hour late.
The singer was forced to stop the O2 set 20 minutes in during Welcome To The Jungle [...]

New Delhi, Sep 3 (ANI): India has conveyed its concerns to Beijing on Chinese activities in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK).
India’s Ambassador to China S. Jaishankar met Chinese Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Zhang Zhijun in Beijing on Friday.
Jaishankar conveyed New Delhi’s concern over the reported presence of Chinese troops in the Gilgit Baltistan region of [...]

Islamabad, Sept 3 (ANI): The Pakistan defence ministry has said that the United States has apologised for the misbehaviour of Dulles Airport officials with the Pakistani military delegation and has assured of taking necessary measures to avoid such untoward incidents in future.
The Pakistan defence ministry released a statement saying that US Under Secretary of State [...]

London, Sep 3 (ANI): Wives and mistresses of the 33 Chilean miners trapped in the San Jose mine are reportedly engaged in a tug of war over compensation announced by the government.
According to The Telegraph, at least five wives came face to face with mistresses whose existence was kept from them by their husbands, who [...]

London, Sep 3(ANI): England manager Fabio Capello has admitted that before the World Cup in South Africa, he was seen as a God, but following his team’s disastrous performance in the tournament, he is now being regarded a monster.
“You create the God and you create the monster, no? This is my team. We lost one [...]

London, Sep 3 (ANI): In a first appearance after the operation, the recipient of a rare double hand transplant has shown the world that he can curl his fingers and make half a fist.
Richard Edwards underwent an 18-hour transplant procedure at a hospital in Louisville about a week ago.
The 55-year-old chiropractor from Edmond, Oklahoma, had [...]

New Delhi, Sep 3 (ANI): Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad held a meeting with Delhi Health Minister Kiran Walia on Friday to review the situation arising out of rise in dengue cases, which has become a concern for the Government prior to the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
“Azad emphasised the need for a [...]

Washington, Sep 3 (ANI): A new study has revealed that school children who eat foods purchased in vending machines are prone to chronic health problems.
University of Michigan Medical School researchers have suggested that such food is responsible for poor diet quality that may be associated with being overweight, obese or at risk of health problems [...]

Sydney, Sept 3 (ANI): Getting into a relationship is easy, but keeping it alive is the difficult part.
There are plenty of things, big or small, that can wreck an otherwise great relationship. Now, Dr Barton Goldsmith, a California-based psychotherapist and the author of ”100 Ways to Boost Your Self-Confidence – Believe in Yourself and Others [...]

London, Sep 3 (AN): Edinburgh has been named Britain’’s best city in an annual poll compiled by a leading travel industry bible.
Readers of Conde Nast Traveller magazine have voted Scotland’’s capital ahead of runner-up Oxford and last year’’s winner, London, citing its “culture” and “user-friendliness” as its major plus points.
Edinburgh has topped the list three [...]

London, Sep 3 (ANI): ”James Bond” legend Roger Moore has landed a role in the British television comedy-drama ”Benidorm”.
The 82-year-old has agreed to play a local dignitary in the Spanish resort for the upcoming series on ITV.
“Roger is a massive fan so we thought it would be fun to get him involved,” the Sun quoted [...]

Seoul (South Korea), Sep 3 (ANI): India and South Korea on Friday inked two landmark Memoranda of Understandings (MoUs) to give a huge boost to strategic defence cooperation between the two nations.
The two MoUs were signed in the presence of Defence Minister A K Antony and his South Korean counterpart Kim Tae-young in Seoul.
The [...]

Washington, Sep 3 (ANI): A new research has discovered that males with a variant form of the immune receptor gene ”Toll Like Receptor 7 (TLR7)” are more likely to develop the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus).
Validating the Lupus Research Institute’’s (LRI’’s) “Human Lupus Biology” initiative to translate mouse findings to human disease, Betty Tsao [...]

London, Sep 3 (ANI): Experts can predict how stressed you are or if you are prone to a heart attack, just by looking at your hair, revealed a study.
Researchers have found that by measuring the levels of the stress hormone cortisol in strands of hair they can even predict if an attack is imminent.
Cortisol is [...]

New York, Sep 3 (ANI): A Bronx teenager has earned the title of New York’’s bookworm of the year for plowing through a staggering 325 novels and comics in just three months.
From June to August, 14-year-old Brittany Lopez spent most of her waking hours with her head in a book.
With the feat, she was proudly [...]

New York, Sep 3 (ANI): Hotels are making extra effort to ensure ESPN sportscaster Erin Andrews’ safety after her recent stalker ordeal.
When the ‘Dancing With the Stars’ beauty recently stayed at the Marcel Hotel in Gramercy, she receieved careful treatment from the staff.
“Staff were instructed to keep their eyes out for any Peeping Toms, checked [...]

Islamabad, Sept 3 (ANI): At least three people were killed and six were injured in an explosion at a place of worship belonging to the minority Ahmedi community in northwest Pakistan.
The blast took place in Mardan, which is located in northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Xinhua quoted police sources, as saying. (ANI)

London, Sept 3 (ANI): Soon, music aficionados can use plug-in USB speakers that produce high-quality sound from the laptop without the need for mains power.
The tinny fizz produced by most laptops”” built-in speakers spoils the music quality because the USB port, from which they get their power, can supply only 2.5 watts. Now, the British [...]

Washington, Sept 3 (ANI): A rare, vine-swinging species of chameleon called ‘Tarzan chameleon’ has been discovered in a tiny patch of forest on the vast Indian Ocean island of Madagascar, a new study says.
According to National Geographic News, the five-inch-long (13-centimeter-long) Calumma tarzan lives in the Tarzan Forest, near the village formerly known as Tarzanville.
The [...]

Washington, Sept 3 (ANI): A UC Santa Barbara scientist has come up with a new method of predicting how contaminants like oil from Deepwater Horizon spill would spread.
“We predicted where the oil was going to go,” said Igor Mezic.
“We were able to do 3-day predictions pretty accurately,” he added.
Mezic, Sophie Loire and colleagues at the [...]