A 69-year-old woman pulled from the wreckage of a building in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince is being treated in Haiti’s General Hospital on Friday.
Doctors said the woman was rescued earlier on Friday, 10 days after the magnitude-7.0 quake struck.
The woman is being treated with oxygen and intravenous fluids at Haiti’s General Hospital.
Dr. Ernest Benjamin said she [...]

The solar eclipse of January 15, 2010 is an annular eclipse of the Sun with a magnitude of 0.9190. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring Earth’s view of the Sun. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon’s apparent diameter is smaller than [...]

India’s maiden mission to the moon, Chandrayaan, found first evidence of water on the lunar surface before it terminated. A joint Indo-US study
published in the prestigious American journal Science has revealed this startling finding.
For long scientists have believed the moon is essentially a dry, parched pockmarked landscape. But the new studies based on the images [...]

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and four others were killed when his helicopter crash-landed atop the Rudrakonda hill in the Nallamalla range, about 40 nautical miles east of Kurnool.
“I’m formally announcing that the CM is dead,” said Home Minister P Chidambaram. In a formal statement to the media, he expressed “deep regret” [...]

Miss Venezuela Stefania Fernandez is on top of the world after winning the coveted crown Miss Universe crown. In the process Stefania Fernandez became the sixth Venezuelan to win the title. What’s more interesting is Stefania was crowned fellow Venezuelan Dayana Mendoza who won the competition in 2008. It is only the second instance in [...]

The first swine flu vaccines are likely to be licensed for use in the general population in September, the World Health Organization has announced.
Several manufacturers have produced initial batches of a H1N1 vaccine and some clinical trials are already underway.
WHO director of vaccine research Dr Marie-Paule Kieny also sought to calm fears about safety of [...]

A new research has revealed the origins of swine flu after scientists discovered that the transmission of the H1N1 influenza A virus to humans occurred several months before recognition of the existing outbreak.
India has confirmed a total of 23 cases of swine flu in the country, with the World Health Organisation declaring the outbreak as [...]

The suicide attack on a five star hotel in Peshawar has killed 15 people and wounded more than 60. Two UN officials, one from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees office and the other from UNICEF are among those killed. Two other UN officials are still missing.
The UNHCR official was part of an emergency team [...]

Oh yes, cricket will be included in the 2010 Asian games in China. Twenty-20 format will be used.
Isn’t it a a good news? Olympics is not far away from cricket now.
Another thing, don’t you think that cricket should also be included in the 2010 commonwealth games in New Delhi , India?
Re: Rocky – So you [...]

Kevin Pietersen has quit as England cricket captain in the fallout to his power struggle with coach Peter Moores, according to Sky TV.
Pietersen and Moores have had several disagreements and the England and Wales Cricket Board have spent days trying to resolve the issue.
Moores, who succeeded Duncan Fletcher after the 2007 World Cup, was expected [...]

Satyam Computer today plunged into a deep crisis, as B Ramalinga Raju resigned as its Chairman after admitting to major financial wrong-doings and saying his last-ditch efforts to fill the “fictitious assets with real ones” through Maytas acquisition failed. He faces a criminal proceeding with a jail term of up to 10 years, if proven [...]

A number of hostages have been freed from one of Mumbai’s top hotels – one of several sites in the city targeted by armed men – eyewitnesses said.
But the situation at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel remains uncertain, with an unknown number of people thought to still be in the hotel.
Police chief AN Roy said [...]

Washington, Nov 5 — Democrat Barack Obama today scripted history capturing the White House in a landslide trouncing Republican John McCain to become the first Black President of the United States.
After an extraordinary nearly two-year election campaign, the 47-year-old Illinois Senator, born to a Kenyan father and White American mother, secured 338 electoral college votes [...]

Wednesday, November 05, 2008 8:20 AM (Washington)
Democrat Barack Obama has seized command of the race for the White House.
The Illinois senator has beaten John McCain in Ohio and is building a near insurmountable Electoral College advantage as he bids to become the first black President.
Overall, Barack Obama had won 207 electoral votes, while John McCain [...]

GUWAHATI, Nov 3 – State Government today spokesperson Himanta Biswa Sarma said that every act of terrorism perpetrated in the State has its link with Bangladesh. Although, he did not divulge any thing further reiterating that ‘investigation into the serial blasts is going in the right and definite direction and very soon something will come [...]

GUWAHATI, Nov 1 – Even after more than 48 hours have passed since a series of blasts rocked the State on Thursday, Assam Police continue to be clueless about the identity of the organisation behind the terror strikes, which claimed 81 lives, besides leaving over 200 injured. However, police claimed to have laid their hands [...]

GUWAHATI, Oct 31 – The death toll in the serial blasts in Assam has gone up to 77 and the possibility of casualties further increasing cannot be ruled out with the condition of over 20 injured still stated to be serious. So far six persons have succumbed to their injuries at the GMCH alone, of [...]

GUWAHATI, Oct 30 – Serial blasts rocked Assam today killing at least 76 persons including 46 in Guwahati city, while, more than 480 others were injured. The death toll may go up as the condition of some of the injured persons is stated to be critical. The identity of the miscreants involved in the blasts [...]