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Kolkata, Sep 27 (IANS) Recession may have ebbed, but artisans of the potters’ colony Kumartuli here say export orders for idols for next month’s Durga Puja festival have picked up only marginally compared to last year. ‘We in Kumartuli have received a slightly higher number of orders compared to last year,’ Babu Pal, who is [...]

Berlin/Warsaw, Sep 27 (DPA) Thirteen Polish nationals were killed Sunday when a bus with holidaymakers on board crashed into a motorway bridge on the outskirts of the German capital Berlin. The bus, run by the Polish POL-BUS travel operator, was carrying employees of the forestry office in the western Polish town of Zlocieniec who were [...]

Washington, Sept 21 (ANI): A new research shows that female cichlid fish look after their young and raise them alone if abandoned by males. Dr Topi Lehtonen from the University of Turku in Finland, Dr Bob Wong and Dr Andreas Svensson from Monash University and Professor Axel Myer from Konstanz University in Germany, found that [...]

Loerrach (Germany), Sep 20 (DPA) A shooting rampage that began in an apartment block and continued in a hospital in Germany ended Sunday with four people dead, including the female assailant, police said. Police were still piecing together what happened in the sudden flurry of violence in the centre of Loerrach, a town just over [...]

Washington, Sept 17 (ANI): Keeping the lights on when romance strikes is a definite mood-killer – when it comes to birds, says a new study. In today”s increasingly urbanized world, the lights in many places are always on, and that”s having a real impact on the mating life of forest-breeding songbirds, according to researchers. “In [...]

London, Sep 13 (ANI): Scientists have apparently found a new technique for rapidly freezing sperm that could be a fresh hope to couples undergoing IVF. Experts have discovered that fast-freezing sperm preserves far more of its motility than present slow-freezing method, reports the Independent. They expect that the technique could help men with low sperm [...]

Mumbai, Sep 9 (IANS) If you sleep, eat and drink movies and always wanted to get up close with Bollywood, then wait no more. Opt for a special tour package that will take you to film sets, popular shooting locales and even the homes of superstars like Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan. Bollywood Tourism [...]

New Delhi, Sep 9 (IANS) A grand line-up of regional theatre, children’s plays and awards to promote the language stage in the run-up to the October Commonwealth Games has shored up the mood of theatre lovers and practitioners in the capital. The National School of Drama (NSD) is contributing to the performing arts with its [...]

Berlin, Sep 7 (IANS/WAM) Eighty-two pieces of Islamic coins dating back 1,200 years were found in Germany, archaeologists said Monday. Some coins made of pure silver and were minted in the 180th Hijri year, a German archeological mission said. The excavations were carried out in the Anklam city in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern province. The find is a [...]

Dubai, Sep 4 (IANS) ‘The biggest fireball ever seen’ and a ‘massive 20-storey tower of smoke and flames’ was how witnesses described the crash of a Boeing 747-400 cargo plane in Dubai, in which two crew members were killed. The United Parcel Service (UPS) Flight 6 took off from Dubai International Airport Friday night for [...]

Brussels, Sep 4 (DPA) Around 280 fans were arrested amid violence around Friday evening’s Euro 2012 qualifying match between Belgium and Germany, the German football federation DFB said. DFB general secretary Wolfgang Niersbach said clashes broke out between police and supporters in the centre of Brussels. Between 500 and 700 German football hooligans who had [...]

Dubai, Sep 4 (IANS) Two pilots were killed Friday when a Boeing 747 cargo plane crashed on a road just two minutes after it took off from Dubai airport, police said. The plane which took off for Cologne in Germany came down in a ball of fire at about 8 p.m. near the Nad Al [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Washington, Sep 3 (ANI): Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, have discovered a true counterpart of the cerebral cortex in an invertebrate, a marine worm. Our cerebral cortex, or pallium, is a big part of what makes us human: art, literature and science would not exist had this most fascinating [...]

New York, Sep 3 (DPA) Results Thursday at the 23-million-dollar US Open (x indicates new result). Women’s singles, second round x Caroline Wozniacki, 1, Denmark, def Chang Kai-Chen, Taiwan, 6-0, 6-0 Vera Zvonareva, 7, Russia, def Sabine Lisicki, Germany, 6-1, 7-6 (7-5) x Svetlana Kuznetsova, 11, Russia, def Anastasija Sevastova, Latvia, 6-2, 6-3 Yanina Wickmayer, [...]

Santiago de Chile, Aug 31 (DPA) The digging of a rescue shaft to free 33 miners trapped some 700 metres underground in a collapsed Chilean mine started late Monday, following several delays, a government spokesman said. Drilling the 66-cm wide rescue shaft is expected to take between two and four months. Rescuers hope to add [...]

Washington, Aug 30 (ANI): In a first of its kind study, scientists have traced genetic risk associated with migraine attacks, which might make it possible for the novel therapeutics to prevent migraine attacks. Researchers looked at the genetic data of more than 50,000 people. The team found that patients with a particular DNA variant on [...]

Berlin, Aug 30 (DPA) Chancellor Angela Merkel called Sunday for Germany’s nuclear power plants to be given an extension of 10 to 15 years past their current legal shutoff date in about 2022. The options of shutting down, continuing with or extending the life of the country’s reactors has proved a hot political issue, dividing [...]

San Francisco, Aug 27 (DPA) All the fuss about tweeting, texting, Facebook pokes and various other cutting-edge forms of communication can obscure the fact that old-fashioned telephone calls are still a pretty effective way of conveying information. But the 560 million people who are registered users of internet phone pioneer Skype have never forgotten the [...]