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Colombia: FARC rebels release French reporter

French war correspondent Romeo Langlois has been released by FARC guerrillas after 33 days in captiv...

Judiciary to decide Colombian rebel`s fate: Chavez

Guillermo Torres Cueter, better known by the alias "Julian Conrado”, was captured last year in south...

New fossil reveals evolutionary history of Jurassic dinosaurs

New fossil material found in Patagonia has shed light on the evolution of dinosaurs in the Jurassic ...

Modi lambasts centre on meat export policy

Coming down heavily against the Centre for its policy on meat exports, Gujarat Chief Minister Narend...

Chandrasekharan murder: CPI(M) worker among 5 arrested

Five persons, including a CPI(M) local committee member, were arrested on Tuesday in connection with...

High-level police officials meeting at Kasargod

Radhakrishnan said that the probe into the RMP leader`s murder was progressing in the right directio...

Colourful birds `evolve faster`

Colourful birds evolve into new species faster than those with only one colour form, according to a ...

Chandrasekharan case: ‘Full progress into probe’

Fifty-year-old Chandrasekharan, expelled from CPI-M some years ago, was killed on May 4 in Kozhikode...

Colombia’s FARC rebels `holding French reporter`

French journalist Romeo Langlois is being held as a "prisoner of war", the Revolutionary Armed Force...

`Internet revolution bypasses rural India`

Reflecting the digital divided in India, the study said just 3.5 households per 1000 families, had a...

`French journo taken hostage after Columbia FARC gunbattle`

A French journalist reported missing in Colombia has apparently been kidnapped, French Minister Alai...

Meat eating had profound human evolution?

Meat eating helped early humans to spread more quickly across the world and had a profound effect on...

`Dinosaurs put eggs in wrong evolutionary basket`

The fact that land-bound dinosaurs laid eggs is what sealed their fate of mass extinction millions o...

Dalai Lama eyes reform in China, fearing revolution

The Dalai Lama has said there are hopeful signs that China will push through political reforms in Ch...

Somnath Chatterjee slams Mamata Banerjee

Somnath Chatterjee slammed West Bengal govt for the reported commission of Russian revolution in his...

Colombia troops kill 33 FARC rebels

Colombia`s new military strategy is to battle the Marxist guerrillas by destroying their key armed a...

Not just birds, human noise affects plants too

Man-made noise doesn’t just affects birds and other animals, it has ripple effects on plants too, re...

Zambia seeks India`s help for Green Revolution

Zambia urged India to provide technical and financial support to help bring in a Green Revolution an...

Expect to free hostages soon: Colombian rebels

The FARC said it was waiting for the President to permit a group of activists to visit jailed guerri...

Giant squids` huge eyes help them escape from whales

Giant and colossal squids have super-sized eyes which allows them to spot predatory whales from a di...

Lack of reform may invite another Cultural Revolution: Wen

Wen said he would carry on his struggle for reforms even after his retirement this year.

Gorilla genome sheds new light on human evolution

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the gorilla and say it gives new insights into differences b...

Colombia`s FARC to stop kidnapping for ransom

Colombia`s feared FARC rebel group said it would free all military and police hostages it holds in ...

Explosive evolution need not follow mass extinctions

A new discovery has challenged the widely held assumption that a period of explosive evolution quick...

Race is on to find life under Antarctic ice sheet

The race is on to discover life in the most remote and extreme environment known on Earth.

Iranians slam US, Israel on revolution anniversary

The 1979 revolution toppled Iran`s pro-west monarchy and brought Islamic clerics to power.

Iran to announce nuclear progress: Ahmadinejad

Tension with the West over Iran`s disputed nuclear work has risen in recent weeks.

Iran cuts off access to Internet fearing protests

The shutdown comes as people prepare to celebrate the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.

Threatening us will harm America, warns Iran

Iran`s Supreme Leader said the Islamic Republic would not yield to international pressure to abandon...

Bomb kills 6, wounds 71 in Colombia

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos condemned the attack, calling it an "act of desperation”.

Radical theory says `inanimate` objects also alive

Even so-called inanimate matter -- DNA, water and planets included -- are all alive, asserts a revol...

A year on, Egyptians back at Tahrir Square to mark uprising

Egyptians gathered here at the Tehrir square to mark the completion of their revolution that begin ...

Climate change led to waves of mammal evolution

Six distinct, consecutive waves of mammal species diversity, or “evolutionary faunas” in the last 65...

‘Hope Lanka acts decisively on power devolution`

India asked Sri Lanka to set up an independent and credible mechanism to probe allegations of huma...

Fossils hint at evolution of animal kingdom

Scientists have found fossils that shed light on the evolutionary origin of animals from single-cell...

Czechs mourn "Velvet Revolution" leader Havel

Thousands of Czechs streamed through Prague Castle to write condolences and bid farewell to Vaclav H...

Czech ex-president Havel to be buried Friday

The funeral of former Czech president Vaclav Havel, who died Sunday morning at the age of 75, will t...

Czech revolution icon Vaclav Havel dies at 75

"On Sunday Vaclav Havel has left us," his secretary, Sabina Tancevova, said in a statement.

Demise of elephants led to rise of modern man

The disappearance of elephants 400,000 years ago led to the appearance of modern humans in the Middl...

Fish may have started walking underwater

African lungfish can use its scrawny limbs to ‘walk’, which redraws the evolutionary course of life ...

Paper wasps have flair for recalling faces

Paper wasps, possessing brains less than a millionth of the size of that of humans, have evolved a s...

Social revolution reduced Bihar’s gender gap: CM

CM Nitish Kumar said that the gender divide between male and female in Bihar has decreased in rece...

Red Galaxies may be cosmic `missing link`

Four red galaxies, uncovered 13 billion light-years away from Earth may be the missing link in the e...

British Muslims boycott lectures on evolution

Muslim medical students in UK are boycotting lectures on evolution because they say those clash with...

Father of White Revolution turns 90

The Father of India`s White Revolution Verghese Kurien, who led `Operation Flood` to make India the ...

Climate change actually boosts human evolution

Climate change is actually beneficial for human evolution as it fosters better adaptation capabiliti...

`Sudan candidate for next Arab revolution’

Sudan has seen a series of small protests in Khartoum and the undeveloped east against sharp rises i...

Iran buries key missile commander killed in blast

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for better observance of safety standards at military s...

Iran rejects Bahrain`s claim of terror cell links

Bahrain`s Sunni leaders have repeatedly accused Iran of encouraging Shiite-led protests that erupted...

Guard commander killed was missile expert: Iran

The Revolutionary Guard is a key Iranian military force closely tied to the country`s powerful cleri...

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