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800 men carried out Syria`s Houla massacre

Attacks in Houla, a group of villages 25 km from Homs city, claimed the lives of over 108 people, wh...

Obama hits Romney`s record as Governor

Top Obama strategist David Axelrod planned to appear today in Boston, where Romney`s campaign has he...

UN rights body to hold session on Syrian massacre

The UN`s top human rights body will hold a special session Friday on the deteriorating situation in ...

NASA’s lunar spacecraft completes mission ahead of schedule

A NASA mission to study the moon from crust to core has completed its prime mission earlier than exp...

Four nations expel Syrian envoys

Australia, Britain, France, and Germany announced the expulsion of Syrian ambassadors from their cou...

Now, software that can read feelings behind facial expressions

Computers that could read our faces may not be far from reality.

Houla massacre: US expels top Syria diplomat

The United States informed the Syrian Charge d`Affaires Zuheir Jabbour of his expulsion from the Uni...

Earth took `10 mn yrs to recover from greatest mass extinction`

It took almost 10 million years for Earth to recuperate from the greatest mass extinction of all tim...

Kofi Annan `horrified` by Syria massacre, 108 dead

UN envoy Kofi Annan on Monday called on "every individual with a gun" in Syria to lay down arms.

Tiananmen massacre protestor’s dad kills self

The father of a man, killed in 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, hanged himself to death after failing...

UNSC strongly condemns Houla massacre in Syria

UNSC held an emergency meeting on the situation in Syria, condemning a massacre in which 108 people ...

Syria denies involvement in Houla massacre

Top UN officials and some countries joined the chorus of condemnation amid mounting calls for a halt...

UN leads global calls for action against violence in Syria

UN Secretary-general Ban Ki- moon has strongly condemned an incident of massive killings, involving ...

Breivik spared me, then shot me: Witness

Pracon testified that Breivik, a self-styled anti-Muslim crusader, first found him on Utoya island a...

US: Chinese held for illegal nuclear exports

Qiang Hu aka Johnson Hu was arrested at his hotel in North Andover, Massachusetts and charged with c...

Bangladesh opposition stages mass hunger strike

Zia said her party was ready to sit in dialogue of archrival Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina`s ruling A...

Residents admitted to hospital following nausea

About 45 residents of various housing colonies of Kombakkam village were admitted to hospital after ...

Fishermen case: No bail to Italian marines

A Sessions Court here on Saturday rejected the bail plea of the two Italian marines arrested in conn...

3-telescope interferometry reveals how black holes are fuelled

The observation was led by Gerd Weigelt, a director of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy ...

Iran hangs assassin of nuclear physicist

Iran Tuesday hanged a man convicted of assassinating an Iranian nuclear physicist, a media report sa...

Billions of life bearing planets float in the milky way

A few hundred thousand billion free-floating life-bearing earth-sized planets may exist in the space...

Massive sunspot could create solar flares directed toward Earth

Scientists say the largest sunspot seen in years has appeared on the surface of the sun, and it coul...

Massive black holes shut down star formation

All large galaxies have a massive black hole at their centre, each millions of times the mass of a s...

Himachal should promote use of biomass fuel: Gadkari

Nitin Gadkari Wednesday advised his party`s government in Himachal Pradesh to take green initiatives...

Briton faces death for killing 13 Africans

David Simpson was arrested after he reported the massacre to police, a newspaper reported.

Robotic arm to reveal inner working of brain cells

The method could be particularly useful in studying brain disorders such as schizophrenia, Parkinson...

Cause of North Star`s decreasing mass revealed

Researchers in Germany believe they have unlocked the answer to the North Star`s decreasing mass.

Ode riots: Nine convicted, 32 acquitted by court

Nine persons were Friday convicted while 32 others acquitted by a special court here in the 2002 Ode...

Scientists watch black hole feast on unlucky star

Scientists have witnessed the rare spectacle of a supermassive black hole devouring a star that had ...

Bigger animals `aren`t always faster`

Bigger isn`t always better -- at least when it comes to the sprinting speed of animals, says a new s...

Neutrinos `may soon be measured accurately`

Planetary scientists claim that their new research would for the first time help astronomers accurat...

Breivik rails at psychiatrists for calling him insane

Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik Wednesday slammed a psychiatric report that declared hi...

Nigeria Parl dopts USD 6 bn subsidy fraud report

A major scam persisted in Nigeria`s fuel subsidy system and state fund was defrauded of USD six bill...

CPI-ML(Liberation) sit-in to protest HC order

CPI-ML (Liberation) Monday held a sit-in demonstration at Kargil Chowk here to protest the recent P...

Palestinians begin mass hunger strike on Prisoners

At least 1,200 Palestinian inmates of Israeli jails began an open-ended hunger strike as rallies acr...

Bihar court acquits 23 in caste massacre case

Citing lack of evidence, a Bihar court Monday acquitted three men sentenced to death and 20 given li...

Karakoram glaciers bucking global warming trend and ‘putting on mass’

Some glaciers on Asia’s Karakoram mountains, which is home to K2, are defying the global trend and g...

Ode massacre: Life term for 18; 5 get 7 years RI

A special court in Gujarat`s Anand district on Thursday pronounced the quantum of sentence in the 20...

Alert sounded along Odisha coast

An alert was sounded along the Odisha coast on Wednesday with warnings issued to fishermen and peo...

Panic gripped Chennaites gather at Marina

Marina beach was hit by a 2004 killer tsunami.

Sumatra quake: 12 NDRF teams kept on stand

Six teams of National Disaster Response Force have been kept in readiness at Chennai.

Jaitley says facts being concocted in Gulberg case

BJP said "unsuccessful attempts" were made to drag in political leaders in the case by "concocting"...

Habitat loss and tropical cooling could be behind mass extinction

The second-largest mass extinction in Earth’s history coincided with a short but intense ice age dur...

Court to take call on closure report: SIT chief

RK Raghavan said closure was recommended in post-Godhra Gulberg massacre case as the team could not ...

Gujarat Ode massacre: 23 convicted, 23 acquitted

A special court on Monday convicted 23 people for their role in Gujarat`s Ode village massacre case ...

Black holes `eat binary star partners` to grow

There are two ways to grow a supermassive black hole: with gas clouds and with stars.

Massive star `turned inside out as it exploded`

A new X-ray study of the remnants of an exploded star suggests that the supernova that disrupted the...

Mass suicide attack bid foiled in Afghan, scores held

The authorities foiled a plan for an apparent mass suicide attack in Afghanistan`s capital Kabul and...

FBI warns of homegrown violence after Afghan massacre

Federal authorities have issued a warning there could be "acts of violence" across the US following ...

Details emerge about US suspect in Afghan massacre

Five days after the Afghan massacre, a portrait of the 38-year-old staff sergeant is beginning to e...

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