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Tainted Pak cricketer Asif ‘fixes’ his wedding celebrations on Sep 30

Lahore, Sep 28 (ANI): Test cricketer Mohammad Asif, one of the Pakistani players implicated in spot fixing, has now fixed his wedding celebrations, which will be held on September 30. Asif, currently under provisional suspension by the International Cricket Council (ICC), is set to bring home Karachi girl Sana Hilal as his bride, The News [...]

US women made less progress in management compared to their male counterparts

New York, Sept 28 (ANI): Women in the United States have made have made little progress in the field of management, even in the boom years before the financial crisis, according to a G.A.O. report to be released on Tuesday by the Government Accountability Office. According to The New York Times, women accounted for about [...]

Oz team in need of new bowling coach after Cooley gets CA job

Sydney, Sep 28 (ANI): After appointment of Troy Cooley as the head of Cricket Australia’s Centre of Excellence in Brisbane, the Australian team is in need of a new bowling coach. Cooley, a part of the Australian team since ending a successful stint as England bowling coach in 2006, will take part in the job [...]

Courteney Cox to reprise her role as hard-nosed reporter for ‘Scream 4’

London, Sep 28 (ANI): Courteney Cox is set to reprise her role as a hard-nosed reporter for upcoming flick ‘Scream 4’. Starring alongside husband David Arquette for the fourth time, the pair have evolved as a couple through the franchise, reports the Sun. Speaking of her character Gale Weathers, Courteney said: “She”s pretty bored, pretty [...]

Tiger Woods alone as US Ryder stars fly in with wives and girlfriends

London, Sep 28 (ANI): Disgraced golfer Tiger Woods landed in Britain with his US Ryder Cup team-mates this week without a WAG. Their wives and girlfriends accompanied America’s stars, led by captain Corey Pavin, when their plane landed in Cardiff. But Woods, 34, cut a lonely figure following his 65million pounds divorce from wife Elin [...]

Protein could help in treatment of osteoporosis

Washington, Sept 28 (ANI): Scientists at Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan have discovered a protein that could help in the development of approaches to treat age-related osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is characterized by reduced bone mass and increased risk of fracture – an imbalance created by decrease in formation of bone forming osteoblast cells from mesenchymal [...]

Breastfeeding ‘wards off baby infections’

London, Sep 28 (ANI): Greek researchers have suggested that the composition of breast milk helps babies fight infections. World experts already recommend that infants are exclusively breastfed for at least the first six months of life. For the study, the researchers tracked the health of 926 infants for a period of 12 months, recording any [...]

Electronic circuits to ‘rewire brain connectivity post trauma’

Washington, Sept 28 (ANI): Kansas University Medical Centre researchers are developing microelectronic circuitry that could rewire brain connections that get damaged by trauma. Pedram Mohseni, and Randolph J. Nudo are trying to guide the growth of axons in a brain damaged by an exploding bomb, car crash or stroke. They believe repeated communications between distant [...]

Hitler was a great man, says Holocaust denier David Irving

London, Sep 28 (ANI): On his shocking tour of former Nazi death camps in Poland, controversial British historian David Irving praised Adolf Hitler as ”a great man” and his Gestapo as ”fabulous policeman”. Irving said Hitler was not ”immoral” but was let down by lesser people in the Nazi regime, according to an undercover report [...]

Electric cars more promising for ‘cutting emissions and US oil imports’

Washington, Sept 28 (ANI): A new research revealed that electric cars hold a greater promise for reducing emissions and lowering U.S. oil imports than a national renewable portfolio standard. Rice University”s Baker Institute for Public Policy found “the single most effective way to reduce U.S. oil demand and foreign imports would be an aggressive campaign [...]

Could a magnet on your head turn you from right to left-handed?

Washington, Sept 28 (ANI): If you are a right-handed person, chances are you will use that hand to pick up a cup of coffee or write, but a new study shows that a magnet on your head could very well make you a leftie. Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, applied transcranial magnetic stimulation [...]

Vitamin supplements ’up skin cancer risk’

London, Sep 28 (ANI): Scientists have revealed that millions of people who take daily vitamin pills could be putting themselves at risk of the deadliest form of skin cancer. Research has revealed that supplements containing antioxidants and minerals appear to increase the chances of developing a malignant melanoma. Volunteers given pills containing vitamin E, ascorbic [...]

Mindfulness meditation may alleviate fatigue, depression in MS patients

Washington, Sep 28 (ANI): A new study has found that learning mindfulness meditation may help people who have multiple sclerosis (MS) with the fatigue, depression and other life challenges that commonly accompany the disease. For the study, 150 people with mild to moderate MS were randomly assigned to receive either the eight-week meditation training or [...]

Brainstorming rules ‘can lead to success in real-world business settings’

Washington, Sept 28 (ANI): North Carolina State University researchers have found that steps taken to make brainstorming sessions more productive can actually lead to success in real-world business environments. “We found that, when tackling complex issues, the use of best practices to produce high-quality brainstorming did result in better decision-making,” said Dr. Joe Brazel. “When [...]

LiLo ‘wanted $10K for staged post-jail pic’

Washington, Sep 28 (ANI): Lindsay Lohan wanted 10,000 dollars for the first post-jail photo of her wearing her SCRAM alcohol-monitoring bracelet, according to sources. “Lindsay Lohan was calling around the pap agencies all weekend trying to get 10,000 dollars up front to pose up in the SCRAM bracelet,” Usmagazine.com quoted a reliable insider as saying. [...]

Kashmir Valley school record 80% attendance

Srinagar, Sep 28 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir Education Minister Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed has said 80 per cent students attended schools in rural areas, whereas urban centres recorded 30 to 40 per cent of attendance. Expressing satisfaction over opening of educational institutions across the Valley on Monday, Peerzada said: “Anantnag, Kulgam, Baramulla and Kupwara districts registered [...]

Botham backs England for ‘magnificent’ Ashes win over Australia

London, Sep 28(ANI): Former cricket legend Ian Botham has predicted that England would beat Australia in the battle for the Ashes with out-of-favour batsman Kevin Pietersen being one of the key trump cards. “I think England will win the Ashes and I think they might win it in a bit of style. I do think [...]

CIA steps up drone attacks in Pakistan

Islamabad, Sep 28 (ANI): The Obama administration has enthusiastically embraced the CIA’s drone program, an ambitious and historically unusual war campaign by American spies, which has launched nearly four times as many attacks in 2009 and 2010 as it did during the final year of the Bush administration, according to The Long War Journal. As [...]

PCB not in war with ICC, other boards: Ijaz Butt

Lahore, Sep 28 (ANI): Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt has rubbished speculations that the PCB was on a warpath with the International Cricket Council (ICC) and other cricket boards, and defended his decision of not suspending the three Pakistani cricketers implicated in spot-fixing scandal. “We have our reservations over our decision to suspend [...]

New Zealand athletes give thumbs up to Delhi Games Village

New Delhi, Sep 28 (ANI): The first batch of New Zealand athletes to check into the Delhi Commonwealth Games Village has given the thumbs-up to the facilities provided by the Organising Committee. Coach Dave Edwards said the players had no complaints after their first night in the village. “Obviously, there”s been a bit of work [...]