Washington, Oct 22: Even as President Barack Obama won the endorsement of 68 Nobel laureates and newspapers in four key battleground states, a new national poll shows the race for the White House in a dead heat.

With just 15 days to go until Election Day, the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released on Sunday shows both Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney with 47 per cent su...

Washington, Oct 22: While the Republicans are itching for a fight over the September 11 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst would like the two presidential contenders to focus on Pakistan.

“The toughest foreign-policy issue our next president will face is Pakistan, the most dangerous country in the world,” Bruce Riedel, wrote ...

Washington, Oct 22: Three people were killed and four injured in a Sunday morning shooting rampage at a spa near a mall in Brookfield, just miles from a Wisconsin gurdwara where six Sikh worshippers were shot dead in August.

The multiple shooting occurred about 11 am at the Azana Salon & Spa near Brookfield Square Mall, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

Waukesha County au...

Cairo, Oct 22: The Indian embassy organized a memorial service here to salute the heroism of Indian soldiers who died in a decisive World War II battle that sealed the fate of Hitler’s Afrika Korps. India’s ambassador Navdeep Suri and a number of senior diplomats and military officials from friendly countries placed wreaths at the memorial on Saturday, an embassy statement said.  ...

London, Oct 22: An Al Qaeda gang of British Muslims planned to carry out a 9/11 type attack in the country, The Telegraph reported on Monday. A Jihadist group, from Birmingham, were to target crowded areas to cause “mass death” in a terror plot that was set to be even more devastating than the 7/7 London bombings, Woolwich Crown Court was told. Two of the alleged ringleaders had receiv...

Toronto, Oct 22: Have you ever been “elbowed” by your bed partner because you were snoring? If yes, new research says you could have Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). Prior to polysomnography (sleep) testing, researchers from the University of Saskatchewan asked 124 patients two questions: Does your bed-partner ever poke or elbow you because you are snoring, and does your bed-partner ever...

Washington, Oct 22: One would expect pin-drop silence in intensive care units, but overnight noise levels there were found at over 80 decibel, well above the WHO recomnmended high of just 30 dB, says a US study. At that level, the noise causes sleep deprivation and immune dysfunction among patients. Yale University School of Medicine researchers reviewed 70 ICU patient charts and recorded in-room ...

Washington, Oct 22: College education and moderate alcohol intake is linked to lower chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) risk, says a new study. COPD is one of the most common lung diseases, having two forms; chronic bronchitis, which involves a long-term cough with mucus, and emphysema, which involves destruction of the lungs over time. Most COPD patients have a combination of both condi...

Washington, Oct 22: A snake slithering towards you may be farther away than it seems because fear magnifies the sense of danger and it can alter even basic aspects of how we perceive the world around us, says a US study. “Our results show that emotion and perception are not fully dissociable in the mind,” says study co-author and Emory University psychologist Stella Lourenco. “Fe...

Rome, Oct 22: An Italian lady has given away all her property worth about 2 million euros ($2.5 million) to her beloved dog. The 84-year-old woman, living in Caserta town with her daughter and several grandchildren, has made the will stating her mongrel dog called Kikko will inherit two apartments, several land estates and also bank accounts. The old woman has decided this soon after her husband&r...

Moscow, Oct 22: An amateur Russian boxer faces 15 years in prison on suspicion of beating a man to death outside a nightclub, police said on Monday. The body of a man in his late 20s was found with facial bruising outside a club in the town of Kamensk-Uralsky on early Sunday, police spokesman Valery Gorelykh said. Police studying security camera footage found the suspect of the killing to be a 22-...

Islamabad, Oct 22: Pakistan has sought extradition of Mullah Fazlullah, a militant commander who planned the attack on teenager Malala Yousafzai and is believed to be hiding in Afghanistan. Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has demanded Fazlullah’s extradition during her meeting with US special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan Mark Grossman. Grossman was told that Fazlullah was involved in...

London, Oct 22: Mark Zuckerberg has opened up about his startup experience and said that if Facebook hadn’t happened, he would have probably landed at Microsoft. The social networking mogul shared his experience in a talk at Startup School, the annual conference for entrepreneurs and computer hackers at Stanford University, the Daily Mail reported on Monday. Even though Facebook boasts one b...

Jerusalem, Oct 22: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday his country was not aware of any talks between the US and Iran, Xinhua reported. The comments came after The New York Times reported the US and Iran had agreed to hold one-on-one talks.  Both sides were set for talks to negotiate Tehran's nuclear power and put an end to the rift between Iran and the Western powers, th...