Washington, Oct 1: Indian-Americans are by far the strongest supporters of US President Barack Obama, giving him an edge of 68 per cent to five per cent over his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, according to a new survey.

Thus, while two Indian-American Republican Governors, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Nikki Haley of South Carolina, are among the strongest critics of Obama, they see...

Islamabad, Oct 1: With fishermen inadvertently trespassing and getting caught, it’s high time India and Pakistan tackle the issue of maritime boundary demarcation, a leading daily said on Monday.

An editorial in the Dawn said the plight of Pakistani and Indian fishermen who stray into each other’s waters is “usually as predictable as the ocean currents that buoy up the...

London, Oct 1: A new phone application, created by US military experts, can make your phone camera take secret pictures, and in turn help hackers spy on you and your home.

The “PlaiceRaider” application was created at the US Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Indiana, to show how cyber criminals could operate in the future, the Daily Mail reported.

The creators e...

Beijing, Oct 1: China should unswervingly stick to and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics, said an article in Qiu Shi (Seeking Truth), the official magazine of the Communist Party of China (CPC) central committee. Socialism with Chinese characteristics is a right path blazed by the CPC and the people during long-term practice, and proves to be the only system that can solve the problem...

London, Oct 1: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was killed by a French secret serviceman on orders of then president Nicolas Sarkozy, a media report said. The secret serviceman is said to have infiltrated a violent mob mutilating the captured Libyan leader last year and shot him in the head, the Daily Mail reported. The daily quoted Libyan sources as saying that the motive was to stop Gaddafi from be...

Muscat, Oct 1: Date palm leaves can help remove chemicals like pharmaceuticals and dyes from hospital waste water before it is discharged into the municipal sewers, says a scientist from a university in Oman. Al Said Al Shafey, principal investigator of a project at the chemistry department of Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, has started a research with an objective to establish a physico-chemi...

Washington, Oct 1: When children suffer from allergies and asthma induced by dust mites, finding relief seems an uphill task. Researchers now claim that three years of allergy shots would offer long-term control of allergic asthma. Immunotherapy, also known as allergy shots, can alter the progression of allergic disease. The treatment eases patients of symptoms, while preventing asthma and the dev...

Toronto, Oct 1: Only two of 100 people are aware of aphasia - a condition characterised either by partial or total loss of speech or the capacity to write. It affects a third of stroke victims, a Canadian study says. Aphasia occurs when there is stroke damage to language and communication centres in the brain. It does not affect intelligence but can leave people unable to express themselves, find ...

Washington, Oct 1: Those who smoke and drink heavily may develop pancreatic cancer at an earlier age than those who don’t, according to a new US study. Researchers from the University of Michigan Health System found that heavy smokers with pancreatic cancer were diagnosed around 62 years and heavy drinkers at age 61 - almost a decade earlier than the average age of 72. Smoking is a strong ri...

London, Oct 1: Men with shaved heads are seen as tougher, powerful, taller, stronger and having greater potential as leaders, according to a US study. Researcher Albert Mannes from the University of Pennsylvania, and a balding man himself, carried out three experiments to look into how men who shaved their heads were perceived by others, the Daily Mail reported. He said perceptions of dominance an...

London, Oct 1: A seven-year-old boy in the US suffers from a host of severe allergies and cannot go to school. He sends an interactive robot instead, through which he answers teachers’ questions and chats with classmates. Devon Carrow-Sperduti from Buffalo, US, attends every class through his interactive “Roboswot”, The Sun reported. The boy’s face appears via webcam on the...

Sydney, Oct 1: A man in Australia, asked to wait 10 hours for a doctor to fix his sliced lip, rather opted to use dental floss and a sewing needle to do it himself. Allan Dell (26) from Darwin city, said he had no medical background but had pierced meat in the kitchen, Australia’s Daily Telegraph reported. “I’m also a chef so I’m not too strange with threading meat ... I us...

London, Oct 1: Nearly one in 10 people over 60 years of age is “naturally blessed” to have not a single grey hair on their head, says a new research conducted in more than 20 countries. Researchers at cosmetics giant L’Oreal analysed the natural hair colour of more than 4,000 men and women of different ages and ethnic backgrounds from more than 20 countries, including Britain, th...

Tokyo, Oct 1: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda unveiled the new cabinet lineup here on Monday after accepting the ministers’ en masse resignation earlier in the day.Noda announced at a press conference the appointments of ex-foreign minister Seiji Maehara as the national policy minister, and of Koriki Jojima who was chief of Diet affairs in ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) as the...

London, Oct 1: Wokingham, a market town in Britain, has been named best in the country to bring up a family. Wokingham, around 50 km from London and with a population of 30,000, topped the list thanks to excellent school results, low crime levels and relatively affordable homes, the Daily Express reported. The town in Berkshire, which held its first market in 1219 and was famed for bull-baiting in...