Osteoporosis is a bone condition where parts of the bone become weak increasing the risk of fractures. It is reported that about 2 million fractures occur each year due to osteoporosis. Although bone disease can affect both the sexes, women are at greater risk, particularly those over the age of 50. However doctors have warned that men are as likely to be affected by the disease as women. This is […]
New York: Five years after his death, singer Michael Jackson is generating a fortune and is the top-earning dead celebrity, raking in an estimated $140 million in the past year for his estate, Forbes said on Wednesday. He earned more than twice as much as singer Elvis Presley, who died in 1977 and came in second with $55 million, and three times more than cartoonist and Peanuts comic strip creator […]
Unique? Suni was much more than that. He was vital to the survival of his kind. So, on Friday, after rangers found the northern white rhino lifeless in his hut on a Kenyan wildlife conservancy, a short countdown to extinction began. Suni was one of only seven northern whites left in the world, all of which live in captivity. There are none known to be left in the wild. More […]
OTTAWA – Canada’s financial intelligence agency says it is actively helping police and spies follow the money flowing into the coffers of Islamic extremists fighting overseas. The Ottawa-based Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, known as FinTRAC, has passed along information to investigators as part of the government’s effort to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, says centre director Gerald Cossette. Many Canadians have never heard […]
Washington: Comet Siding Spring or C/2013 A1, which is the size of a small mountain, passed extremely close to the planet Mars on Sunday (19 October 2014). Wowing space enthusiasts with an event that happens once in a million years, comet C/2013 A1 made its closest encounter with Mars Sunday at 2:27 pm (1827 GMT), racing past the Red Planet at a dazzling 203,000 kilometers per hour. The rare celestial […]
In July 2007, a fascinating story emerged in a U.K based Medicine Journal about a cat that could “predict” the deaths of patients in a nursing home several hours before they died. The cat, Oscar, had 25 successful predictions, in which patients died hours after the cat sat down by their beds. People have long believed that animals have mysterious powers of prediction. Do animals have a sixth sense? […]
Karachi: In a fresh rant against India, Pakistan People’s Party chief Bilawal Bhutto vowed to wrest Kashmir from India. “When I raise Kashmir, the entire Hindustan screams. They know when a Bhutto speaks, they (Indians) have no answer,” the 26-year-old Bhutto scion said during his first public rally here yesterday. “We will take back Kashmir from India,” he said amidst thundering applause by thousands of supporters at mausoleum of Pakistan’s […]
NEW YORK: Some scar-forming cells in the heart have the ability to turn into cells that form blood vessels, which are required to boosts the heart’s ability to heal after an injury, an Indian-origin researcher has found, suggesting a new approach to treat heart attack. The team of researchers he led also found that a drug could enhance this phenomenon – turning the scar-forming cells in the heart, known as […]
A little trick I like to use to make my days much more pleasant is to find little, simple pleasures and sprinkle them throughout my day. They’re not big things, but they each simple pleasure can translate to a great day if you use them right. So in the morning, I might have a cup of coffee, and sip it slowly to enjoy it fully. I might read a gripping […]
In this 1923 file photo provided by the Guadalupe Dunes Center, whip-wielding overseers drive Hebrew slaves – or hundreds of costumed actors and extras in these roles – before a 10-story wood-and-plaster Egyptian city set, constructed for production of Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments,” near the town of Guadalupe on the wind-swept Central Coast of California. Archaeologists, film buffs and historians are trying to save what remains of the […]
