Washington, Oct 26: Amid seesawing polls and with just 12 days to go before the November 6 election, President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are crisscrossing battleground states to swing voters their way.

Continuing on a non-stop two-day tour of several battleground states, Obama on Thursday moved from Nevada overnight to Florida to Virginia, Illinois - where he vo...

Beijing, Oct 26: Disgraced politician Bo Xilai has been expelled from China’s top legislature, authorities said on Friday.

The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) announced on Friday the termination of Bo Xilai’s post as an NPC deputy, reported Xinhua.

“According to the law on deputies to the NPC and to local people’s congres...

Taliban takes responsibility for US solders’ killing

Kabul, Oct 26: At least 41 people were killed and 34 wounded when a suicide bomber wearing a police uniform targeted a mosque in northern Afghanistan’s Mainama city just after Eid-ul-Azha prayers, an official said. The dead include 23 members of the Afghan National Police,  deputy to provincial governor Abdul S...

Washington, Oct 26: With the help of dozens of free mobile applications, teenagers can virtually light up and smoke away, say Australian researchers and warn it can encourage the real thing.

According to a new study led by Nasser BinDhim at the University of Sydney’s School of Public Health in Sydney, these applications may be a way for tobacco companies to reach new, younger cust...

Moscow, Oct 26: Employees of a golf club in California, US have rescued a shark which appeared to have fallen on a golf course from the sky, a media report said. The leopard shark, measuring two feet in length, was found by an employee at San Juan Hills Golf Club on Monday afternoon, according to the Capistrano Dispatch newspaper. The employee picked it up, put it into the back of his golf cart an...

Rio de Janeiro, Oct 26: A 61-year-old Brazilian woman who spent the last two decades trying to become a mother gave birth to twins this week, her doctor said on Thursday. The pregnancy was achieved using artificial insemination and 10-year-old frozen embryos. Antonia Leticia Rovati Asti gave birth on Monday thanks in part to the efforts of Orlando de Castro Neto, a specialist in assisted reproduct...

London, Oct 26: A pre-school teacher in China is facing dismissal from her job after sharing online hundreds of photographs, including the one in which she is seen lifting a kid with ears in the classroom. The picture shows 20-year-old Yan Yanhong smiling as she hauls the screaming child several inches off the ground at the school, located in Wenling city, The Sun reported. Parents in China’...

New York, Oct 26: Sikh Art & Film Foundation’s 9th Annual International Film Festival to be held here on November 2-3 will present 14 groundbreaking films sharing the culture, values, self-esteem and struggle of contemporary Sikhs. The Sikh Heritage Award Gala on November 2 will premiere a multi-million dollar public service announcement campaign called “Be Proud”, created by...

Sydney, Oct 26: Whistle blowing website Wikileaks founded by Julian Assange is reportedly publishing secret American military documents again. Australia-born activist Assange announced a progressive release of over 100 leaked US Defence Department files setting out rules and procedures for interrogating detainees in military custody. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the documents to be publ...

Moscow, Oct 26: The New York Times reports that China blocked access to its Chinese-language website on Friday following the publication of an article claiming that members of Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s family hold more than $2.7 billion in assets. Access to the site was blocked soon after the article was published, the newspaper said. Later, access to the English-language site gradually be...

Washington, Oct 26: Extending the normal exercise routine by a few minutes could ensure higher satisfaction levels among young adults aged 18-25 years, says a new study. “We found that people’s satisfaction with life was directly impacted by their daily physical activity,” said study author Jaclyn Maher, graduate student in kinesiology at the Penn State University. “The fin...

Washington, Oct 26: Full-body scanners used at airports can damage the insulin pump or continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) device used by diabetics, caution experts. The risk to these sensitive devices posed by scanners and the low-pressure conditions on airplanes were the focus of a report published in the journal Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics. Authors Andrew Cornish and H Peter Chase of...

London, Oct 26: Defective taste buds prompt obese children to gorge on larger portions of food, which actually blunts their ability to distinguish the five tastes of bitter, sweet, salty, sour and savoury. They compensate for the lack of taste by gorging on more food to derive the same pleasure. Although obese and normal children had the same ability to taste sweetness, the ability of the former t...

Washington, Oct 26: When astronauts land on earth, their blood pressure (BP), along with the altitude, drops in a condition known as orthostatic hypotension, according to a research. The condition occurs in up to half of those astronauts on short-term missions (two weeks or less) and in nearly all astronauts after long-term missions (four to six months). A new research solves the biological myster...