London, May 20 (ANI): Sir Alex Ferguson had stunned Manchester United players after he reportedly told them not to call him 'Boss' again, as his final order.

The Scot ended his 26-year Old Trafford reign with a thrilling 5-5 draw against West Bromich Albion and will be succeeded by outgoing Everton boss David Moyes, The Sun reports.

Making the quip to players and backroom staff at Old Trafford, Ferguson joked that his retirement means that United players can finally call him

New Delhi, May 20 (ANI): Consequent to the spot-fixing scandal in the cash rich Indian Premier League (IPL), Union Law and Justice Minister Kapil Sibal has suggested introduction of a legislation to curb the menace of betting and other illegal activities in the country's sports arenas.

He said, there is a need for a separate law, as the Indian Penal Code (IPC) does not recognise match fixing and spot fixing as offences.

Sibal said he has already asked the law ministry to work

Washington, May 20 (ANI): A Russian capsule, which had mice and lizards as its occupants, returned to Earth on Sunday after spending a month in space.

According to scientists, the experiment was conducted to test effects of weightlessness and other factors of space flight on the cell structure, Fox News reported.

Russian state television showed the capsule and some of its inhabitants following its safe landing in a planted field near Orenburg, about 1,200 kms southeast of Moscow.

Washington, May 20 (ANI): Demi Lovato has revealed that she was furious when Joe Jonas broke up with her.

Three years after the couple broke up, the 20-year-old X Factor judge said that she and Joe were able to get past their failed relation and maintain a friendship, Us magazine reported.

However, she confessed it wasn't easy getting over him.

She said in an interview with ABC News that when a person goes through heartbreaks and things like that, they always have in mind

Karachi, May 20 (ANI): The chief security officer of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) leader Hafeez Saeed has been allegedly murdered, with his body found lying near a canal in Lahore.

According to sources, Khalid Bashir had received a phone call from an unknown person while having dinner at his residence late at night after which he went missing, and his body, showing signs of torture, was found in the morning, the Express Tribune reports.

Alleging that Bashir's role in the JuD had irked

New Delhi, May 20 (ANI): President Hamid Karzai will be in India for a two-day visit, discussing issues that are of importance to both countries. This would be his twelfth visit here, and this in itself, is testimony to the importance of this relationship that both need to nurture constantly.

There are however concerns that affect both countries, arising from the impending drawdown, as it is called, of U.S. forces next year, the status of the Afghan security forces, the parlous state of

Washington, May 20 (ANI): Although prediabetes has no symptoms it is not benign, according to an expert.

According to statistics from the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control, about 79 million adult Americans (one in every four over the age of 20; and one of every two Americans over age 65) are walking around with prediabetes.

This means they have blood glucose levels that are higher than normal, but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes.

People

Washington, May 19 (ANI): Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a promising method to distinguish between pancreatic cancer and chronic pancreatitis - two disorders that are difficult to tell apart.

They found that a molecular marker obtained from pancreatic juices could identify almost all cases of pancreatic cancer.

Many researchers have been working on such a diagnostic test for a long time - for me, it has been 20 years. But for the first time, we have found a very strong

Sydney, May 20 (ANI): Australian Test batsman David Warner was reportedly enraged by a picture linking him to spot-fixing suspect S.Sreesanth in an article by journalist Robert Craddock into corruption in the Indian Premier League (IPL), which led him to insult Craddock and his co-scribe Malcolm Conn on Twitter.

An early morning text message from a friend in Australia is believed to have sparked the Twitter tirade from Warner that has resulted in the opener being reported by Cricket Australia

New Delhi, May 20 (ANI): Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, who is on a three-day state visit to India, on Monday said that global prosperity would not be possible without the simultaneous development of China and India.

Keqiang, who received a ceremonial reception at the Rashtrapati Bhawan here this morning, told media that the combined population of China and India is a third of the world's population, and therefore, both China and India are important world markets.

Development and

Washington, May 20 (ANI): 'Star Trek: Into Darkness' fetched 70.6 million dollars in its opening weekend in the US.

However, it's not setting any records as it debuts lower than the studio's expectations.

The latest voyage of the starship Enterprise fell short of its predecessor, 2009's 'Star Trek,' which opened with 75.2 million dollars, Fox News reported.

Since premiering Wednesday in huge-screen IMAX theaters and expanding Thursday to general cinemas,

New York, May 20 (ANI): Men are putting their best foot forward by kicking safe black socks to the curb in favor of bright colours and dashing prints.

According to 33-year-old Roland Gonzales, who works in finance, socks are a way that he can stand out at work.

The Brooklynite was spotted in Bryant Park flaunting a pair of pink and purple striped Paul Smiths that he wore at his wedding.

Everyone wears the same sort of conservative uniform. This is a way to personalize my work

Hyderabad, May 20 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh Home Minister P Sabita Reddy and Roads and Buildings Minister D Prasada Rao, who were named as accused in a disproportionate assets case involving incarcerated Kadapa Member of Parliament Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, have resigned.

Sabita and Pradasa Rao submitted their resignations to Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy late last night. The chief minister is likely to forward the resignation letters of the two ministers to Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan for

Washington, May 19 (ANI): Researchers including one of Indian origin have engineered a strain of electricity-producing bacteria that can grow using hydrogen gas as its sole electron donor and carbon dioxide as its sole source of carbon.

This represents the first result of current production solely on hydrogen, said Amit Kumar, a researcher on the study who, along with his co-authors are part of the Lovley Lab Group at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Under the leadership

Washington, May 19 (ANI): Purified components of ginger may have properties that help asthma patients breathe more easily, a study from researchers at Columbia University have revealed.

Asthma is characterized by bronchoconstriction, a tightening of the bronchial tubes that carry air into and out of the lungs. Bronchodilating medications called beta-agonists are among the most common types of asthma medications and work by relaxing the airway smooth muscle (ASM) tissues.

This study

Washington, May 19 (ANI): People who have asthma may be at higher risk of developing obstructive sleep apnea, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin.

Using data from the National Institutes of Health (Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)-funded Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study, which has been following approximately 1,500 people since 1988, researchers found that patients who had asthma were 1.70 times more likely to develop sleep apnea after eight years.

This

Washington, May 20 (ANI): The four-day India-US Homeland Security dialogue between Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and his American counterpart Janet Napolitano will begin here today.

Threats from terror groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba and al-Qaeda, illicit financing and transnational crimes are high on their agenda.

Both the sides are expected to take stock of the existing mechanisms such as the Joint Working Group on Counter-terrorism and the Counter-terrorism Cooperation Initiative

Paris, May 20 (ANI): To promote India as a Filming Destination, Union Tourism Minister K Chiranjeevi will inaugurate incredible India exhibition at the 66th Cannes film festival in France today.

The joint participation of the Ministry of Tourism and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting at the festival is consequent to their entering into a Memorandum of Understanding to promote Cinema of India as a sub brand of Incredible India at various international film festivals like IFFI Goa,

Sydney, May 20 (ANI): Australian opening batsman David Warner is facing a Cricket Australia (CA) disciplinary hearing for his vitriolic social media outburst at respected News Limited sportswriters Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn.

Warner, whose captaincy aspirations have taken a hit, had been reported for breaching the code of behaviour of the CA, which will be deciding a date for the hearing ahead of this week's departure of the Ashes squad, News.com.au reports.

According to

Washington, May 20 (ANI): Scientists have suggested that the amount of time that asthma patients spend in the sun may have an impact on their illness.

A research team at King's College London said low levels of vitamin D - made by the body in sunlight - has been linked to a worsening of symptoms.

Its latest research shows that the vitamin calms an over-active part of the immune system in asthma, the BBC reported.

However, treatment of patients with vitamin D has not yet

London, May 20 (ANI): Eva Longoria was left exposed at Cannes' red carpet when she lifted her dress off the wet ground to reveal that she wasn't wearing any underwear.

The 38-year-old actress made the mistake of pulling up her dress while she was going to pose for photographs in an elegant green dress before the screening of movie 'Jimmy P.' (Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian) at the Film Festival, the Mirror reported.

However, Longoria didn't let the embarrassing incident

Islamabad, May 20 (ANI): An US-based Pakistani filmmaker has urged on a ban on Bollywood and Hollywood movies in Pakistan, and has offered his guidance and support to save the deteoriating Pakistani film industry.

Urging the government to make efforts in the revival of the large screen by encouraging independent filmmakers and movies on social issues, Mumtaz Hassan said that it can be possible only by imposing a ban on screening and sale of foreign commercial movies like in Iran, the

New Delhi, May 20 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will hold comprehensive talks on key bilateral, regional and international issues here today.

Issues including boundary and trade are expected to come up for discussions during the high level interactions.

Earlier, both the leaders held talks on crucial bilateral issues here last evening.

External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai and National

Washington, May 20 (ANI): A recent study has found that teens in a relationship that involves dating violence are likely to be both a victim and perpetrator, as opposed to being just one or the other.

In some situations teens play both roles with one partner or they'll play one role in a given relationship and then another role in a subsequent relationship.

The violence in a relationship can be mutual, in that both partners engage in some aggression. Or it could be a learned

Washington, May 20 (ANI): According to new research, menu labeling has made more people aware of how many calories are in restaurant meals and has some people reducing their intake.

The study evaluated the effects of new requirements for chain restaurants to label their menu items with their corresponding calorie content by following restaurant patrons 18 months after implementation of the law-a longer period than previously published studies.

The researchers looked at various types

New York, May 20 (ANI): French daredevil Jean-Michel Casanova scaled the 564 feet Bailong Elevator in China with no help from any machinery, safety net or safety equipment.

Casanova's green-and-black sticky sneakers were the only help he needed in his dizzying feat.

According to officials, Casanova climbed the huge steel tower in 68 minutes and 26 seconds, while spectators looked on in awe, the New York Daily News reported.

The Bailong Elevator, also known as the Hundred

New Delhi, May 20 (ANI): Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, who is on a three-day state visit to India, was given a ceremonial reception at the Rashtrapati Bhawan here this morning.

He was received by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.

He inspected the guard of honour and also met members of the Indian Cabinet.

Talking to reporters here, Keqiang said: I have had a good beginning to my trip, I am confident that my full trip will be successful.

With this visit, I hope that both

Washington, May 20 (ANI): When it comes to relationship advise, your buddies, siblings and coworkers can have enough influence on your decision to start a new romance.

According to H. Colleen Sinclair, an associate professor of psychology at Mississippi State University, their opinions can shape your romantic destiny, Fox News reported.

If you have the support of your friends and family, your relationship is more likely to survive, Sinclair said.

Psychologists use the phrase

London, May 20 (ANI): Sir Alex Ferguson had led the way to a day packed with goodbyes after he bid farewell to Manchester United with 1500 games in charge after a record breaking 5-5 draw with West Bromich Albion.

Following the Scot, football icons Paul Scholes, Michael Owen, Jamie Carragher, Steve Harper and Stilyan Petrov also drew curtains on their illustrious careers, the Mirror reports.

However, the report added, it was Ferguson whose retirement made the most impact, adding

London, May 20 (ANI): England captain Alastair Cook has praised his bowlers Stuart Broad and James Anderson, saying that the duo's combined strikeforce is a major help to his assault on world domination.

Former England skipper Nasser Hussain introduced Anderson to Test cricket while English icon Michael Vaughan put him and Broad together to open the bowling attack five years ago in New Zealand, the Mirror reports.

According to the report, however, it is Cook, who will enjoy the

Sydney, May 20 (ANI): An Australian sports commentator has sparked outrage on Twitter for an Indian impersonation during a news broadcast.

Sandy Roberts had put on an Indian accent and made a joke about eating curry following coverage of the Indian Premier League (IPL) during Channel 7's news broadcast, News.com.au reports.

According to the report, Roberts' action caused an instantaneous backlash against him in Twitter as many users labelled his joke as a 'disgrace' and

London, May 20 (ANI): Tottenham Hotspur boss Andre Villas-Boas has said that it is necessary for them to keep a tight hold on star winger Gareth Bale so that the club can reach the top four 'Holy Land' in the Premier League next season.

Although the Welshman hit the only goal against Sunderland, but Tottenham fans will have to wait for the Europa League after Arsenal pipped them to a top-four spot, The Sun reports.

Stating that they have to keep their ambitions high and hold

Johannesburg, May 20 (ANI): South Africa's Justice Minister Jeff Radebe has claimed that the well-connected and wealthy Gupta family misused their diplomatic contacts to land their plane illegally at the country's strategic and sensitive Waterkloof Air Force Base last month.

They secured landing rights from ministers and an airports company in South Africa ahead of an elaborate reception for Vega Gupta and Aakash Jahajgarhia at Sun City.

News 24 reports that the irregular landing

London, May 20 (ANI): Iranian authorities have executed two men after they were charged and convicted for spying Israel and the United States.

Iran has repeatedly accused Israel and the U.S. of carrying out covert intelligence operations following ongoing pressure on the country over its nuclear programme, which the Western nations suspect as being used to build an atomic weapon, despite Tehran's insistence that the programme is meant for peaceful purposes, BBC News reports.

Tehran's

Guwahati, May 20 (ANI): Voting is on for 28 seats of the North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council in Assam today.

Over 1,21,000 voters are eligible to seal the political fate of 138 candidates. The Congress has fielded 28 candidates. The BJP has its candidates in ten constituencies. Nineteen former insurgent leaders are also in the poll fray.

Meanwhile, security has been intensified across Dima Hasao District to conduct free and fair polls.

Thirteen additional companies of

New Delhi, May 20 (ANI): Tibetan organisations are staging protests in different parts of Delhi against the three-day state visit to India of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.

Shouting slogans against the visiting Chinese dignitary, the Tibetans said they held Keqiang responsible for the spate of self immolations in their homeland.

Li Keqiang is responsible for the killings in Tibet. 117 self immolations have happened and he is responsible for all the things, said a female protestor.

More

Karachi, May 20 (ANI): Ireland has given hope of reviving international cricket in Pakistan after it reportedly agreed to consider visiting the country to reciprocate Pakistan's one-day international (ODI) tour of Ireland.

At a time when all the Test playing nations have written-off touring Pakistan, the International Cricket Council's (ICC) associate member Cricket Ireland (CI) gave a positive response on that subject to the Pakistan Cricket Board's (PCB) request for a reciprocal

Washington, May 20 (ANI): An individual should always personalize their CV according to the particular job they are applying for.

Gone are those days when a person could print out stacks of CVs and send it to the whole town.

In the age of digitalization, a person should make sure that he has made these five tweaks in their CV's before he/she sends them, CBS News reported.

Firstly, the resume should highlight their most relevant achievements.

Secondly, the CV should

New Delhi, May 20 (ANI): On February 17, 2013, 25-year-old Muhammad Ali Murtaza from Aghaar, Kotli, the son of a Kashmiri Imam of a masjid in Lahore, was brutally tortured and killed by the Pakistani Army.

His crime? He was visiting his cousin sister's home in a village in District Kotli near the LOC. Before he could reach her home, he was picked up by the Pakistan Army from Chattar and handed over to the ISI. That was the last he was seen alive. His body was handed over to the family

Washington, May 20 (ANI): Pop stars Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift won the big prizes on Sunday at the Billboard Music Awards.

Bieber, who was named top male artist, also performed at the show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Contactmusic reported.

He also took home Billboard's first Milestone Award, chosen by fans, for musical innovation and ingenuity.

The teen heartthrob has had a rough few months, with scathing reports about his bad behaviour on his ongoing

Washington, May 20 (ANI): Chris Brown is the focus of an investigation by Los Angeles Police Department after his lawyer Mark Geragos received multiple calls at his office threatening his client's life.

Sources told TMZ.com that though it's unclear if any specific threats were made, the caller threatened to kill Brown.

Insiders told the publication that Geragos, who represented Brown during his arrest and trial for assaulting Rihanna in 2009, immediately reported them to the

London, May 20 (ANI): Scientists have said that the recent downturn in the rate of global warming will lead to lower temperature rises in the short-term.

Since 1998, there has been an unexplained standstill in the heating of the Earth's atmosphere.

Dr Alexander Otto from the University of Oxford and colleagues said that this will reduce predicted warming in the coming decades.

But long-term, the expected temperature rises will not alter significantly, the BBC reported.

The

London, May 20 (ANI): Wayne Rooney missed his last season game with West Bromwich Albion, as his wife Coleen was preparing to give birth to her second child on Sunday.

The footie ace was left out of the last match of Manchester United's season - an amazing 5-5 draw at West Bromwich Albion - to be by her bedside.

The WAG tweeted: Such an uncomfortable sleep last night!!! #hurryupbaby.

According to sources, Coleen, 27, was admitted to the Liverpool Women's Hospital on Saturday,

London, May 20 (ANI): Tottenham Hotspur had to face a major disappointment after it failed to secure a top four finish in the Premier League which was clinched by Arsenal, who won 1-0 against a lacklustre Newcastle United.

Even though Gareth Bale's late wonder goals have spurred Tottenham on all season and has put them in contention for Champions League qualification, the three points they picked up with a 1-0 win at home against Sunderland were not enough due to Arsenal's win, the

Johannesburg, May 20 (ANI): South Africa's Justice Minister Jeff Radebe has said the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and police in South Africa will be the deciding authority on whether to prosecute or not to prosecute the well-connected Gupta family for allowing their plane to land at the strategic and sensitive Waterkloof Air Force base for the wedding of Vega Gupta and Indian-born Aakash Jahajgarhia at Sun City.

The plane carried 270 guests, including Vega Gupta and Aakash Jahajgarhia,

London, May 20 (ANI): David Beckham, who ended his glittering career with PSG win on Saturday, has been flooded with big-bucks offers of TV and film deals from all over the world.

Pals of the England legend told the Daily Star that Beckham has already been offered at least 14 deals to make him a top television star.

A source said that the 38-year-old footballer has had tonnes of offers of work and TV deals everywhere from NBC in the States hankering after him to do a chat show, to

London, May 20 (ANI): Frankie Boyle, who targeted Angelina Jolie last week by tweeting that she should sell her body for sex, has raised eyebrows with a second sick joke about the actress.

The 40-year-old comedian has been condemned by cancer campaigners after he made light of the 37-year-old's potentially life-saving double mastectomy breast operation, the Daily Star reported.

Just days later, he said: An impossibly sexy woman, who campaigns against war, between playing gun-toting

Washington, May 20 (ANI): Yahoo Board has reportedly approved a telephonic deal with New York-based social blogging site Tumblr to acquire the blogging site for 1.1 billion dollars in cash, although Tumblr will function independently despite the Internet icon investing in the company.

While Yahoo has approved the deal, Tumblr's board has not made it clear whether the company has approved the deal, Fox News reports.

Yahoo plans to get more traffic directed to its site by way of

New Delhi, May 19 (ANI): Delhi Government has decided to put in place a transparent mechanism by end of the year under which people will be able to access hassle-free services in all 13 sub-registrar offices without any jurisdictional issue.

The aim of the ambitious project -first of its kind in the country is to offer people a tout-free and seamless property registration experience through a highly secured online platform, which will replace the six-decade-old current system.

Under

New Delhi, May 19 (ANI): Internal Affairs Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Sunday left for the United States to participate in the Indo-US Homeland Security dialogue.

At the plenary session of the dialogue in Washington Shinde will interact with US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano on issues including threats from terror groups like LeT and al-Qaeda, illicit financing and transnational crimes.

Both side will take stock of the existing mechanisms such as the Joint Working

Kathmandu, May 19 (ANI): The Joint Indo-Nepal Army Mountaineering Expedition Team successfully climbed Mount Everest. According to the Nepal Army Directorate of Information, the first team of the Joint expedition reached the world's highest peak at nine local time this morning.

From the Indian army five, including Major R. M Jamwal , Mingmamagar Gurung, Sudhir Singh, Chhatar Singh and Sukvir, have reached the summit. Form the Nepal Army five of the team members have also sumitted.

New Delhi, May 19 (ANI): Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Sunday urged Dr. Manmohan Singh to firmly articulate the concern of the people and the country, including the opposition, he said this, in wake of Premier Li of China's arrival in New Delhi to discuss issues pertaining both the countries and to enhance bilateral ties.

He said: Surely, there can be business relationship, but the larger issue is India's strategic interest. The BJP would like

New Delhi, May 19 (ANI): Senior Janata Dal- United (JD-U) leader Shivanand Tiwari on Sunday in the wake of the spot-fixing saga in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) said cricket is no longer a sport, but a trade.

Tiwari said: It is no longer a sport rather it's more like a trade now, hence the incident does not come as a surprise. The way players are being auctioned is similar to that of slaves in ancient times. If you go to an animal fair, the cattle is sold after inspecting

Bhubaneshwar (Odisha), May 19 (ANI): The Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA), in association with the Odisha State Museum (OSM), organised the rock art exhibition in Bhubaneshwar on the occasion of the International Museum Day.

The renowned museum showcased around 250 photographs of rock arts and six to eight replicas of the preserved art.

Project director of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, BL Malla said that the aim of the exhibition was to create awareness

New Delhi, May 19 (ANI): Supporters of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), protested against inflated electricity and water bills in New Delhi on Sunday and submitted complaint letters to the Congress leaders.

The spokesperson of Aam Aadmi Party, Manish Sisodia and his fellow party members along with scores of supporters protested outside the residence of Delhi Health and Family Minister A K Walia and Congress legislator, Tarvinder Singh Marwah.

Sisodia along with party members vented out anger

Chennai, May 19 (ANI): Chennai, May 19 (ANI): The Vice President of the Board of Cricket Control for India (BCCI), Rajiv Shukla on Sunday said strict actions would be taken if the players are found guilty after the Working Committee submits its report.

Shukla said: In the Working Committee meeting of the BCCI, it was decided that strict action would be taken on all those who indulge in betting and match fixing. The accused players are already suspended. And Ravi Sawani (anti corruption

Sydney, May 19 (ANI): Brighton manager Gustavo Augusto (Gus Poyet) has been suspended after he sent an angry mail to his employees after excrement was found on the floor of the Crystal Palace dressing room ahead of a key Championship play-off at the Amex Stadium.

Brighton has called for investigation and threatened to call police if the culprit does not hand over himself, News.com.au reports.

According to the report, the club authorities have suspended Poyet and his assistant Mauricio

New Delhi, May 19 (ANI): A group of protesters, including Tibetans in exile, demonstrated against the Chinese premier, Li Keqiang's visit to india amid border tensions between both the countries.

India needs to toughen its stand on intrusion by China. They should demand China to demarcate the international boundary first and only then proceed with further dialogue and let their leaders visit India, said Kansal, a protester.

Premier Li will arrived in New Delhi on Sunday on his

New Delhi, May 19 (ANI): Insisting that the Telangana problem is very much on the UPA's national agenda, Congress leader P. C. Chacko on Sunday said the party is aware of the sentiments of the people from that region and a decision will be taken as soon as the ongoing consultation process is over.

In a statement, Chacko said his comments on Telangana on Saturday at a press conference were misunderstood and misconstrued as if the issue is not a part of the UPA's agenda.

Telangana

Melbourne, May 19(ANI): Buzz has it that 2000 Olympics medallist Ian Thorpe Thorpe and James Middleton, the brother of the Duchess of Cambridge, have become flatmates.

Thorpe, who was a guest at Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding two years ago and has considered the royal family amongst his closest friends since the 2000 Olympics, has spent significant amount of time in London in the recent months, the Age reported.

Pippa Middleton, who used to live with her brother,

New York, May 17 (ANI): O.J. Simpson has recently revealed that he had been drinking for the whole day on Sept. 13, 2007, before he robbed two sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas hotel.

But sources close to the case think that it might be that watching The Oprah Winfrey Show that afternoon made Simpson impulsive, the New York Post reported.

The family of Ronald Goldman, who was murdered along with Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, were on Oprah to discuss the controversial

Sydney, May 19 (ANI): Iran has reportedly gone into 'internet coma' by tightening internet controls ahead of next month's presidential election, mindful of violent protests inspired last time around over claims of fraud.

Authorities refuse to officially confirm the new restraints, but former officials and media reports have accused the Supreme Council of Cyberspace of ordering them, reports News.com.au.

According to local media, businesses, banks and even state organisations

New Delhi, May 19 (ANI): Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived here today on a three-day state visit.

He was received by Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahmed and senior ministry officials including Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai.

Li is accompanied by a high level delegation. The Chinese premier will have a restricted meeting with his Indian counterpart Dr Manmohan Singh this evening.

External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said New Delhi is highly hopeful

London, May 19 (ANI): Richard Kiel found popularity when he played one of the most memorable Bond villain 'Jaws' in the 1977 movie 'The Spy Who Loved Me' and 'Moonraker' in 1979.

The 7f 2in actor, who continues making TV shows and films to this day, said that initially he wanted to become a lawyer but his family could not afford the expenses due to the big recession in 1958, Daily Express reported.

The international star, who has acted in many movies including

Melbourne, May 19 (ANI): The popular cycling map app Strava has had one of its most popular Brisbane segments renamed 'Bedroom antics - shhhh' after complaints from homeowners along that route that riders were talking loudly about their sex lives.

According to News.com.au, complaints from Yeronga residents sparked a petition last month to crack down on riders talking too loudly along a stretch of the popular River Loo.

One regular loop cyclist Glyn Diwell said he thought renaming

Nangarhar, May 19 (Xinhua-ANI): Four Afghan policemen were killed Sunday as a roadside bomb went off in the country's eastern province of Nangarhar, the provincial government said in a statement.

Four members of Afghan Border Police died following a roadside bombing in Khawari area of Muhmad Dara district at around 10 a.m. local time Sunday, the statement said.

The Nangarhar province with Jalalabad as its capital is lying 120 km east of national capital Kabul.

A police

Moscow, May 19 (Xinhua-ANI): UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to return to the negotiating table with international mediators.

Ban was concerned over the DPRK's latest short-range missile launches and urged the country to refrain from further such acts, Ban told the RIA Novosti news agency.

The DPRK launched three short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan Saturday, the South Korean Defense Ministry said.

The

Washington, May 19 (ANI): An Australian scientist is planning an expedition to the Wessel islands in July and will revisit the location where five coins and an old map might reveal findings recreating Australia's history.

Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University in US Ian McIntosh plans to open up possibilities that the 1000-year-old coins may prove that explorers from distant countries might have landed in Australian shores much earlier than James Cook declared it 'terra

Washington, May 19 (ANI): A study featuring a new colonoscope that allows doctors to see more of the colon shows promise that could revolutionize colorectal cancer screening.

Researchers compared both the adenoma miss rate using the new colonoscope with the miss rate of a traditional colonoscope. The miss rate for the new colonoscope was only 7.6 percent as compared to 41.7 percent for the traditional colonoscope, in this study.

It's always our goal to minimize miss rates in colonoscopy.

London, May 19 (ANI): According to a new book, the idea that men are cutting back on work to help their partners with childcare is just a myth.

Gideon Burrows, author of Men Can Do It! The Real Reason Dads Don't Do Childcare and What Men and Women Should Do About It, to be published next week, said that the notion that dads are opting to replace mothers in huge numbers is a fallacy.

The book, which has been described as a wake-up call for all new parents, also examines the barriers

New York, May 19 (ANI): The knife that was carried by one of the elite SEAL Team Six members in the 2011 raid on former al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, has been sold at an auction, with the proceeds going to the family of another fallen SEAL, Brett Shadle.

SEAL team member Matt Bissonnette - who wrote his book No Easy Day under the pen name of Mark Owen -was given the knife by Ernest Emerson, the owner of company Emerson Knives, reports New York Daily News.

He carried it with him

Islamabad, May 19 (ANI): Pakistan's outgoing ambassador to the US, Sherry Rehman, has asked Washington to end drone strikes in the country's tribal areas in order to help put the relationship between the two countries on a sustained upward trajectory.

Rehman said this in her farewell speech to a gathering of senior American officials and Pakistani-Americans, reports The Express Tribune.

She said that drone strikes stir up anti-American discontent and fuels the cognitive disconnect

New Delhi, May 19 (ANI): Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived here today on a three-day state visit.

The visit is expected to expand cooperation between the two countries substantially.

External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said New Delhi is highly hopeful that the visit will enhance mutual trust and understanding between the people and leadership on sensitivities of two countries.

Briefing media here yesterday, Akbaruddin said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is

Washington, May 19(ANI): Charlie Sheen's troubled ex-wife Brooke Mueller is apparently not happy with Denise Richards taking care of her children.

Richards who has two daughters, Lola and Sam, with Sheen, and adopted another daughter, Eloise, on her own has cared for Mueller's kids on several occasions when Mueller was undergoing her rehab, People magazine reported.

Sheen had also supported this arrangement and according to a friend of his, the actor had praised about Richards

Washington, May 19(ANI): Nicole Kidman will star as Grace Kelly in a biopic that will be produced by Academy Award winner Harvey Weinstein and will be release the next Oscar season.

Kidman said that she has researched on Kelly and has come to know her very well, Fox News reported.

The 45-year-old actress added that she has fallen in love with her.

Other than the biopic, Weinstein is also planning to make 'August: Osage County', a movie about a dysfunctional family based

Washington, May 19(ANI): Angelina Jolie, who underwent a double mastectomy operation recently, has admitted that she is very happy with her decision as she can now tell her children that they don't need to fear about losing her mother because of breast cancer.

She said that the operation reduced her chances of developing breast cancer from 87 percent to under 5 percent.

Brat Pitt, whom Jolie praised for being with her for every minute of the surgeries, said that her choice was

Islamabad, May 19 (ANI): Pakistan's outgoing ambassador to the US, Sherry Rehman, has said that Pakistan and the United States should acknowledge each other's roles in the good work they do, adding that the two countries have improved their ties considerably from a low-point in 2011.

Rehman, who was addressing a gathering of senior American officials and Pakistani-Americans, added that Washington should end drone strikes in the tribal areas in order to help put the relationship on

Srinagar May 19 (ANI): Around 50 Shikara boats in Jammu and Kashmir lined up in the renowned Dal Lake on Sunday to participate in a race, which was organised to showcase the culture of the state and promote tourism in the valley.

The participants in the race, comprising of owners and operators of Shikaras, said boat racing was a prominent attraction in the region 20 years ago, but had faded over time.

This race is being organised as part of the tourism festival and

New York, May 17 (ANI): Pope Francis and the US Pontifical Mission Societies have joined the smartphone league by launching a new mobile application called Missio featuring latest news and video about the Catholic Church.

Marking a unique connection between the digital and the religious, the application is designed to give Catholic perspectives on world news and also moral discourses by the Pope, New York Daily News reports.

According to the report, around 1140 people from 27 different

New Delhi, May 19 (AN): Severe heat wave conditions continue to prevail over the north-west, central and eastern parts of the country.

Parts of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Vidarbha, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh would experience heat wave to severe heat wave conditions during the next three days.

The MET office predicts further increase of about two degrees Celsius in maximum temperatures.

Delhi recorded a maximum

Melbourne, May 19 (ANI): Winona Ryder, who was arrested in December 2001 for shoplifting at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills, has finally opened up about her brush with the law and how it forced her to take a much-needed break from acting.

The 41-year-old actress told Interview magazine that she was headed towards the wrong direction for a long time and was struggling with the people's opinion of her, the Herald Sun reported.

The 'Heathers' star admitted that a lot of

Washington, May 17 (ANI): The Pentagon is planning to request the lowest-ever annual supplemental budget from the government, about 79.5 billion dollars, which is the lowest cost for anti-terror war ongoing since 2005.

The drop in budget comes as US troops and war equipments deployed in Afghanistan are returning to their homeland, Washington Times reports.

According to the report, President Barack Obama's administration has seen decline in the appropriations as he plans to drive

Washington, May 19 (ANI): Asteroid 1998 QE2 will sail past Earth on May 31, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon.

While QE2 is not of much interest to those astronomers and scientists on the lookout for hazardous asteroids, it is of interest to those who dabble in radar astronomy and have a 230-foot (70-meter) - or larger-radar telescope at their disposal.

Asteroid 1998 QE2 will be an outstanding

Washington, May 19 (ANI): A leading senior religious clerics in Saudi Arabia has said that Saudi citizens using Twitter will risk damnation.

Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh's declaration comes as a move to attack the US-based microblogging service, the Huffington Post reports.

According to the report, Saudi leaders fear that Twitter and other social media services are platforms for making the dissidents voice out their opinions against the government, despite the religiously

London, May 19 (ANI): Denmark has been crowned the winner of Eurovision song contest 2013 that were held in the Swedish city of Malmo.

Emmelie de Forest, 20, won the title with 281 points thanks to her splendid rendition of the song 'Only Teardrops', while Azerbaijan stood second 234 points, the BBC reported.

UK entrant Bonnie Tyler, 61, who is best known for her 1983 hit 'Total Eclipse of the Heart', had high hopes for her chances but came 19th which was an improvement

Washington, May 19 (ANI): A senior US Senator has posted on Twitter that the country is not working on its foreign policies as of now, remembering that last time when the country had no foreign policies Hitler had started the World War II.

Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa is known for his unusual Twitter feeds referring history, the Huffington Post reports.

Grassley has warned that a modern-day Hitler invasion is imminent if America does not work on its foreign policies.

Last

Islamabad, May 19 (ANI): The Chinese ambassador to Pakistan has said that China is ready to act as an arbiter in Kashmir dispute but any such arrangement is subject to India's consent.

Envoy Liu Jian affirmed that the India and Pakistan could see rapprochement over Kashmir issue through China, reports The Nation.

Jian, at a farewell reception, said that Pakistan and China would sign a wide range of trade and economy and other strategic agreements during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's

Rajouri (Jammu and Kashmir), May 19 (ANI): A crumbling building, absent school benches and blackboards coupled with frequent power cuts is being offered to school students, of a remote area in Rajouri district of Kashmir, who are keen to get basic education for a better future.

The state authorities have failed to provide adequate staff, burdening the teachers who have no choice but to teach multiple subjects to large groups of children.

Students are forced to sit on the ground and

Melbourne, May 19 (ANI): A Belgian golfer had crashed out of the World Match Play Championship in Bulgaria after he was forced to play out of a toilet.

Defending champion Nicolas Colsaerts was beaten by Ryder Cup colleague Graeme McDowell 2 and 1 in the quarterfinals on the Thracian Cliffs course after his tee shot flew into a public toilet close to the green, The Age reports.

The report further said Colsaerts was then told that he had to take a one-stroke penalty drop within the

New Delhi, May 19 (ANI): Hundreds of enthusiasts ran for marathon here today in a bid to raise awareness about safety of women in the wake of recent cases of rape which has shocked the entire nation.

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit along with the sports entrepreneur-politician, Naveen Jindal and others flagged off the marathon.

Dikshit said that the marathon aimed at taking adequate steps to improve the status of women.

Marathon is not a solution but it attracts and creates

Washington, May 19 (ANI): In a new study, patients with treatment-resistant major depression saw dramatic improvement in their illness after treatment with ketamine, an anesthetic.

The largest ketamine clinical trial to-date was led by researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

The antidepressant benefits of ketamine were seen within 24 hours, whereas traditional antidepressants can take days or weeks to demonstrate a reduction in depression.

Led by Dan

Washington, May 19 (ANI): Michelle Obama made light of the failures that her husband, Barack, faced in his life.

The First Lady said at the graduation ceremony for Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Magnet High School that when something doesn't go a person's way, they just have to adjust.

The 49-year-old said that a person has to dig deep and work like crazy.

She asserted that talk show host Oprah Winfrey was demoted from her first job as a news anchor and then talking

Chennai, May 19 (ANI): The Board of Cricket Control for India (BCCI) on Sunday accepted that they were not in a position to control spot-fixing in wake of the spot-fixing row which involves three Rajasthan Royals players.

BCCI President N. Srinivasan said, Each team will have an Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) officer apart from that Ravi Sawani has been appointed as the commissioner to probe into spot-fixing allegations.

For the last three-four days, BCCI-bashing and IPL-bashing

Bokahat (Assam), May 19 (ANI): Irate over rampant killings of endangered one-horned rhinoceros Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) staged protests in Assam.

Led by former Assam Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta and senior leaders of AGP held a demonstration in Kohora against surging Rhino deaths due to poaching in Kaziranga National Park.

Upset over recent spate in death of the threatened animals provincial leaders demanded stringent measures to check the killings.

Kaziranga is famous

Melbourne, May 19 (ANI): A Gold Coast Primary school has come in for a bit of criticism after it launched a model search for kids as young as two.

The Ashmore State School Model Search, which features categories for kids from 2-13, will be held at a Family Fun Fair next month, and the prizes will include modeling courses valued up to 500 dollars for winners and categories like best catwalk model and most photogenic, News.com.au reported.

No make-up is allowed and there is no evening

Washington, May 19 (ANI): Prostitutes in Cannes or the thousands of them who descend on the city each year during the Cannes Film Festival, can apparently make up to 40,000 dollars in a single night.

In an extensive expose, The Hollywood Reporter interviewed Elie Nahas, the person accused of running a prostitution ring that supplied women to Muammar Gaddafi's son, Moatessem, in Cannes in 2007, Fox News reported.

Even though Nahas alleged that he was not guilty, he told the magazine

Melbourne, May 19 (ANI): The exotic dancer, who was at the center of Silvio Berlusconi's sex trial, revealed at her first court appearance that young women wore nun and nurse costumes to perform sensual dances at his bunga bunga parties.

Karima El Mahroug said that she often received envelopes filled with notes of 500 euros from the former Italian prime minister, but asserted that the money was not in return for sex, the Age reported.

Nicole Minetti, a showgirl and one of the

Washington, May 19 (ANI): Individuals suffering from Crohn's disease are often plagued by reduced muscle strength, fatigue and poor quality of life.

These symptoms can remain even when patients are in remission.

A randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled study presented at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) found for the first time that vitamin D supplementation corresponded to significant relief of these symptoms.

Our findings may have significant implications for these

London, May 19 (ANI): Northern Irish golfer Graeme McDowell has defended his slip about World No.2 Rory McIlroy leaving his management company, saying that although the move is not yet confirmed, it is already being much talked about in the golfing world.

For weeks there have been whispers at big events in America that McIlroy is about to leave Horizon, the Dublin-based management agency that negotiated his 20 million dollars-a-year Nike deal, the Mirror reports.

Adding fuel to one

Washington, May 19 (ANI): A study from Texas Tech University, El Paso, and the University of Mississippi, Oxford, holds promising results for diabetic patients suffering from indigestion symptoms like nausea, vomiting, bloating and heartburn.

The study tested a new method of therapy using a custom-made wireless device to stimulate acupuncture points with electrical waves on the surface of the skin rather than needles.

Treatment options for this patient group are severely limited,

London, May 19 (ANI): Chelsea is reportedly looking to sell their record 50 million-pound buy Fernando Torres this summer, despite this season being the best of his career at Stamford Bridge with 22 goals.

However, Torres had netted just seven times in the Premier League, the last coming against Aston Villa in December, for which the Blues hope that Sunday's match against Everton will be his final one, The Sun reports.

The report further said that Torres has had 34 goals in 130

Johannesburg, May 19 (ANI): Syrian president Bashar Assad has said that claims of the West that the Syrian government used weapons of mass destruction against its countrymen are nothing but a pretext for waging war against Syria.

The statement comes after US, Britain and Israel strongly put forth their opinions that there is evidence of chemical weapons being used in Syria, News 24 reports.

However, Assad said that the West lies and forges evidence as a prelude to wage war as this

Washington, May 19(ANI): Sarah Michelle Gellar shared her best parenting advice ever as she showed up at the CBS Upfront event for her new comedy series, The Crazy Ones, in New York City.

When it comes to her parenting style, the Vampire Slayer actress said she likes to keep it simple, Us magazine reported.

The mom of two told the publication that her parenting tip is not too original but it works.

The 36-year-old actress advised to trust instincts, adding that there's a

Karachi, May 19 (ANI): Religious discrimination and acts like forced conversion of Hindu girls in Pakistan should be declared as crimes against humanity and legal action should be taken to curb it, speakers at a consultation on minority rights have said.

The speakers who attended the ceremony on 'Religious Minority and Human Rights: Democratic Process and New Opportunities', underlined the need for formulation of laws to end discrimination against oppressed sections including non-Muslims

Washington, May 19 (ANI): Transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) has shown promise in improving mental states in people suffering from chronic pain.

In 2002 a UCLA group led by Alexander Bystritsky noticed beneficial side effects in psychiatric patients whose brains were imaged by TUS. A team led by Virginia Tech's W. Jamie Tyler has shown TUS-induced behavioral and electrophysiological changes in animals.

A Harvard group led by S-S Yoo has used focused ultrasound aimed at

Washington, May 19 (ANI): May 28th, 2013, Venus and Jupiter will pass within one degree of one other (about twice the apparent size of the full moon, it has been predicted.

And a little further above the horizon Mercury will also put in an appearance.

Although they may look close from our point of view, in reality Jupiter will be 660 million kilometers further away than Venus, and 744 million kilometers further away than Mercury, which is the closest of all of them come to us, Discovery

Karachi, May 19 (ANI): Pakistan's Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has demanded that a high level judicial inquiry be conducted into the events surrounding the murder of senior vice president in Sindh of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in Karachi.

MQM deputy convener Farooq Sattar, while speaking at an emergency press conference, extended their party chief's condolence and condemnation message to the family of Zahra Hussain and PTI workers.

Sattar also expressed concerns at how

Washington, May 19 (ANI): People can make matters worse by not taking responsibility for their actions, when they are caught cheating by their spouses.

The 5 things that a person should not do when caught cheating are, firstly they should not deny it, as doing that will just make the spouse angrier, the Huffington Post reported.

Secondly, they should not leave any explicit evidence of their affair lying around, as if the spouse finds it out he/she will be hurt even more.

Thirdly,

Washington, May 19 (ANI): An Indian immigrant is set to become the most accomplished hacker in US as he is being paid for dropping college studies and engaging himself in Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial environment.

Diwank Singh Tomer, 19 has enrolled himself with the Facebook's first investor and the co-founder and former CEO of PayPal, Peter Thiel, who is paying 100,000 dollars to 20 teenagers to launch a business of their own, ABC News reports.

Tomer, who is designing an

Washington, May 19 (ANI): Researchers at NYU School of Medicine have shown that the effects of trauma persist in certain brain regions even when veterans of combat are not engaged in cognitive or emotional tasks, and face no immediate external threats.

The results shed light on which areas of the brain provoke traumatic symptoms and represent a critical step toward better diagnostics and treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

A chronic condition that develops after

London, May 19 (ANI): A debate held by Afghanistan MPs to back up law to eliminate violence against women came to a standstill amid angry protests by traditionalists.

A 2009 presidential decree has banned violence against women, child marriages and forced marriages but was not approved in the parliament, the BBC reports.

According to the report, the speaker had to end the debate 15 minutes after the protests started for the law to be scrapped as mullahs, fundamentalists and other

Washington, May 19 (ANI): Astronomers have found the farthest known solar twin in the Milky Way Galaxy-CoRoT Sol 1, which has about the same mass and chemical composition as the Sun.

Spectra from the High Dispersion Spectrograph (HDS) on the Subaru Telescope showed that CoRoT Sol 1 is about 6.7 billion years old while space-based data from the CoRoT (Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits) satellite indicated a rotation period of 29 plus/ minus 5 days.

This newly discovered,

Rajnandgaon (Chhattisgarh), May 19 (ANI): Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has said that development in all spheres is the sole key and formula of solutions to the problems faced by India.

Modi, who is also a senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, asserted this in his rhetoric manner while addressing a huge public rally here yesterday.

He also highlighted the significance of development approach to tackle the problems in the country.

Citing examples of development

London, May 19 (ANI): Sacked Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini had reportedly taken out a full-page advertisement in a local newspaper in Manchester to thank his fans and say goodbye to them.

The Italian, who was dropped a day after City lost to Wigan Athletic in a dramatic FA Cup final, has kept quiet about his sacking but bought a full-page ad in the Manchester Evening News to deliver a farewell message to supporters, Sky News reports.

According to the report, the ad had a headline

Lahore, May 19 (ANI): Pakistan Army Chief, General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has met Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president and expected prime minister for the next parliamentary tenure Nawaz Sharif at his residence, and exchanged views on internal and external security issues confronting the country.

According to PML-N sources, Kayani held a three-and-a-half-hour-long discussion with Sharif and both discussed the Karachi situation, terror attacks in different parts of the country and

Washington, May 19 (ANI): Unlike other studies, which found differences between men's and women's thoughts during disagreement, a new study found only one statistically significant sex-based difference in thoughts: women were more likely than men to blame their partner.

It also found that people who are unhappy in their romantic relationship spend more time during a disagreement thinking about how angry and frustrated they are, but happy couples coordinate their thoughts so that

London, May 19 (ANI): Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho has reportedly been told by the club's top officials that forward Cristiano Ronaldo will not be going with him if he seals a deal for a return to Chelsea.

The Special One was keen to take Real's Portuguese star to Stamford Bridge but president Florentino Perez, fuming about Friday's Spanish Cup Final defeat by Atletico Madrid, is adamant that Ronaldo is going nowhere, the Mirror reports.

The report further said that Perez

Amritsar, May 19 (ANI): Polling for 146 Panchayat Samitis and 22 Zila Parishads is taking place under full security arrangements here today.

More than 40 thousand police personnel have been deployed to ensure free and fair elections.

For the Zila Parishad, 760 candidates are trying their luck as 30 candidates have been elected unopposed. 5,786 candidates are contesting for Panchayat Samitis as 229 candidates have been elected unopposed.

In all, 1.10 crore rural voters would

Islamabad, May 19 (ANI): The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), which is set to lead the government at the Centre, has reportedly told Army Chief Ashfaq Pervez Kayani that Pervez Musharraf should leave Pakistan before the elected government takes charge from the caretakers.

The PML-N, which has reportedly pardoned the former president under the pressure of international guarantors now desires that Musharraf should not be on the issues' list of the country when they take charge to

Lucknow, May 19 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has ordered a probe into the death of Khalid Mujahid, an accused in the 2007 serial blasts in Lucknow, Faizabad and Gorakhpur.

Mujahid died yesterday in Barabanki while being escorted to Lucknow jail after a hearing in Faizabad.

According to reports, the accused Khalid Mujahid fell sick and fainted near Barabanki border and was rushed to district hospital where doctors declared him dead.

Mujahid was an accused

Washington, May 19 (ANI): Fair skinned people are known to be at higher risk for skin cancer and other problems associated with too much exposure to the sun, but experts say people of color also are vulnerable to the harmful effects of ultraviolet (UV) rays emitted by the sun and indoor tanning beds.

Darker skin has more pigment-making cells, which provide some inherent protection against UV rays, but not enough, said Adam Friedman, M.D., director of dermatologic research, Division of

London, May 19 (ANI): Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany and several of the players, including goalkeeper Joe Hart and David Silva, had reportedly threatened to quit the club if Roberto Mancini had continued to stay on as manager.

The Italian' reign at the Etihad was doomed when it became clear that Kompany and his teammates would leave if he was not replaced, as Mancini's abrasive style had upset several first team players before the sack, the Mirror reports.

According

Washington, May 19 (ANI): A suspected American drone attack has reportedly killed four Al Qaeda militants in the southern province of Yemen according to security officials.

A fight between Yemeni forces and Al Qaeda in Abyan province last year had drove away militants from several cities that the outfit had ruled over for a brief period in 2011, Fox News reports.

According to some security officials, the attack took place around dawn in Deyqa in the Arabian province.

President

London, May 19 (ANI): Sharon Osbourne, who was snapped wearing a huge diamond on her wedding finger again, is apparently giving her marriage another chance by letting her wild-man husband, Ozzy Osbourne, move back in with her.

The couple, who were reportedly living apart with their marriage in shambles, is spending nights under the same roof once again, the Sun reported.

The star's assistants were spotted moving clothes and boxes from the Black Sabbath singer's rented Beverly

Wellington, May 19 (ANI): In another cyber-attack Twitter and Financial Times (FT) website have reportedly been hacked.

An online group called the Syrian Electronic Army supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had followed a phishing attack on Financial Times' mail accounts, Stuff.co.nz reports.

According to the report, the hackers have taken control over Twitter account of a news organization where 200 million users of the social media service have sent out more than 400

Melbourne, May 19 (ANI): JK Rowling's own copy of the first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which started the enthralling journey of the Harry Potter series, is all set to go under the hammer.

The book, which was the first installment of the seven-part saga, is about a young wizard's adventures and will be auctioned at Sotheby's in London, the Herald Sun reported.

The novel has personal notes and original illustrations by the author.

The director

London, May 19 (ANI): London Olympics champ Jessica Ennis swapped her tracksuit for a wedding dress as she walked down the aisle in St Michael and All Angels Church on Saturday in Hathersage, Derbyshire.

Around 100 guests are thought to have attended the marriage between the Olympic gold medallist and her fiance Andy Hill - a construction manager -before heading off to a reception at an undisclosed location, the Daily Express reported.

The couple have been together for more than

Thiruvananthapuram/New Delhi, May 19 (ANI): Congress Vice President Rahul has criticised the opposition parties for stalling the Food Security Bill in Parliament, and asserted the UPA government was determined to enact the legislation for the benefit of people.

I am sad that the opposition is acting against the interests of the poor Indian...I can understand politics. But I cannot understand political parties hurting the poor of the country, Gandhi told a party rally here yesterday.

We

London, May 19 (ANI): A Saudi woman has become the first female from the country and the youngest Arab to reach the summit of Mount Everest - the world's highest mountain.

Raha Moharrak, 25, was part of a four-person expedition, which also included the first Qatari man and the first Palestinian man attempting to reach the top of Mount Everest, trying to raise 1 million dollars for education projects in Nepal, the BBC reported.

Moharrak, who is originally from Jeddah, is a university

New Delhi, May 19 (ANI): The 45th Session of the Indian Labour Conference concluded in New Delhi with a resolve to provide universal social security coverage and assured pension to the entire working population.

During the course of Conference the Labour Ministers of State Governments, Central Trade Union Leaders, Employers' representatives, and Officials of the central and state governments also deliberated on service conditions, wages and social security for various categories of

Washington, May 19 (ANI): A researcher led a study to take a look into the minds of burglars, providing insight into their motivations and methods.

The team gathered survey responses from more than 400 convicted offenders.

UNC Charlotte researcher Joseph Kuhns said that the study helps to understand gender differences in offending motivations and techniques.

He said that by asking the burglars what motivates and what deters them, the team believes that this research can help

Washington, May 19 (ANI): Some things are better left unsaid in the case of your boss that stands true.

There are five things that you should avoid talking about with your manager at all costs.

Firstly, an individual should never reveal their side business or a hobby through which they are making profit to their to their boss, the Muse reported.

Secondly, a person should never tell their superiors that they are exhausted after studying late night.

Thirdly, if a person

London, May 19 (ANI): Chelsea has reportedly refused to bow down to Manchester United's public claim that wantaway strker Wayne Rooney will not be sold by asking United to name their price for the troubled star.

According to sources, the Blues' owner Roman Abramovich would be prepared to splash out over 30 million pounds for Rooney, who is also being chased by new French league champions Paris Saint Germain, and match his 250,000 pounds-a-week United salary, the Mirror reports.

The

Washington, May 19 (ANI): Praying for a partner may lead towards a more cooperative and forgiving behaviour towards them, a new study has claimed.

Frank D. Fincham, eminent scholar and director of the Florida State University Family Institute, said that this set of studies is the very first to use objective indicators to show that prayer changed actual behaviour, and that this behaviour was apparent to the other partner, the subject of the prayer.

In addition, objective observers

New Delhi, May 19 (ANI): Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will arrive here today on a three-day state visit.

The visit is expected to expand cooperation between the two countries substantially.

External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said New Delhi is highly hopeful that the visit will enhance mutual trust and understanding between the people and leadership on sensitivities of two countries.

Briefing media here yesterday, Akbaruddin said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

Sydney, May 19 (ANI): Former Australian captain Ian Chappell has said that the Australian Twenty20 tournament, the Big Bash League (BBL) needs to carefully vet their overseas contracted players in order to avoid importing corruption.

Chappell's comments came following the spot-fixing controversy enveloping the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL), in which three Indian cricketers of the Rajasthan Royals franchise, including Test paceman S.Sreesanth, were charged with the crime.

According

Washington, May 19 (ANI): A pediatrician has said that if infants don't spend time on their stomach, it will be much harder for them to push on their arms, which will not only delay rolling over but may also flatten the back portion of their skull.

Hannah Chow-Johnson, MD, pediatrician at Loyola University Health System and assistant professor in the department of pediatrics at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, suggests parents to place their child on their tummy

Washington, May 19 (ANI): Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have parted ways after dating for more than three years, according to reports.

A source said that, however, it will not be surprising if the couple get back together, People Magazine reported.

The revelation follows online reports that Pattinson missed out on his 27th birthday plans arranged by the 23-year-old actress.

Before his birthday, the couple were seen in New York together after the Met Gala - and then jetted

Washington, May 19 (ANI): Radio host Pete Santilli has made shocking comments about former First Lady Hillary Clinton, claiming that she should be shot in the vagina for her involvement in the killings of US troops.

He hosts a show on his website, but said that he is ready to take his show to national syndication but only if the FCC regulated AM/FM radio stations can handle his truth and honesty.

Santilli said that Clinton needs to be convicted, tried and shot in the vagina, asserting

London, May 19 (ANI): Football icon David Beckham had reportedly broken down into tears as he captained the newly crowned French champions Paris St-Germain at the Parc des Princes in Paris to a comfortable 3-1 victory over Brest, signifying a fitting end to his glittering career.

Beckham, who was watched by a crowd of 55,000 including his wife, mother, children and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, had by far his best game since he signed for PSG in January, the Independent reports.

The

Sydney, May 19 (ANI): Australian Test batsmen David Warner is likely to be charged with detrimental public comment for his Twitter outburst under Cricket Australia's (CA) code of conduct, delivering a setback to his leadership aspirations.

Condemning Warner, CA's high-performance chief Pat Howard had confirmed that Warner will be disciplined after using the social networking site to launch a savage attack on cricket journalists Malcolm Conn and Robert Craddock, News.com.au reports.

According

Sydney, May 19 (ANI): Australian Test batsman David Warner may reportedly lose his place in the squad for the prestigious Ashes tour following his Twitter outburst.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Warner may now have to face a Cricket Australia code of behaviour hearing to explain why he should still be allowed on the upcoming Ashes series.

Warner launched a blistering attack against two of the Australian media's longest-serving cricket writers, Robert Craddock and Malcolm

Melbourne, May 19 (ANI): NASA has revealed that a boulder-sized meteor slammed into the moon in March, causing an explosion so bright that it was visible to the naked eye on Earth.

Though about 300 lunar impacts have been logged over the years, NASA scientists consider this latest impact, from March 17, much brighter than anything else observed, News.com.au reported.

We have seen a couple of others in the 'wow' category but not this bright, said Robert Suggs, manager of NASA's

Siliguri, May 19 (ANI): Local police have conducted martial arts training for about 400 school girls in West Bengal's Siliguri district in order to combat violence against women.

Recently, the alleged rapes of girl children triggered protests, reawakening concerns about safety for women and girls.

In order to protect themselves, the girls were seen enthusiastic and curious to learn defence training.

Deputy Commissioner of Police of Siliguri, OG Paul on Saturday said that

Gumla, May 19 (ANI): Jharkhand Police arrested four cadres of the People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI) who were acting as messengers of Maoists in Gumla district.

Police had been conducting several search operations in various districts in order to catch hold of the Maoists who approach the local villagers and offer them some money.

Talking to mediapersons here on Saturday, Inspector of Police of Gumla district said that the sympathisers used to pass on the information of

Melbourne, May 19(ANI): Swedish car company, Volvo has developed an iPhone app that would help car owners to find the location of their vehicle through their smartphone.

Not only this, with the new system, you can lock or unlock the car via the phone, from far away, News.com.au reported.

The system would also give a warning if someone is trying to break into the car, or has bumped into it while trying to park in front or behind.

The car would send signals to the phone if the

New York, May 19 (ANI): The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned US citizens that public swimming pool is filled with fecal matter.

The researchers from CDC collected water samples from filters at 160 indoor and outdoor pools around Atlanta, and found traces of feces in nearly 60 percent of them, demonstrated by the presence of E. coli bacteria.

The agency said that the E. coli bacteria enters the pool when swimmers have a fecal incident or when they fail to

Washington, May 19 (ANI): Consuming coffee regularly could reduce risk of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) - an autoimmune liver disease - a research has shown.

PSC is an inflammatory disease of the bile ducts that results in inflammation and subsequent fibrosis that can lead to cirrhosis of the liver, liver failure and biliary cancer.

Study author Craig Lammert, M.D., a Mayo Clinic gastroenterologist said, While rare, PSC has extremely detrimental effects.

For the study,

Washington, May 19(ANI): King's County Bar in Brooklyn, New York is set to host the first ever 'Smallest Penis Contest', on July 20.

According to an advertisement on Craigslist, the contest invites 'less endowed men' who can prove that 'good things can come in small packages,' the Huffington Post reported.

The 'pageant style' contest would involve 'talent, evening wear, and swimsuit elements.'

A 'small member expert panel,' would judge

London, May 19 (ANI): Manchester City has reportedly agreed to sign a record 54 million-pound transfer deal with Atletico Madrid striker Radamel Falcao, who will become City's first signing of the Manuel Pellegrini era.

City has met the buy-out clause in the Atletico contract of the Colombian, who has long been one of hottest properties in world football, to snatch him away from incoming Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho and boost their profile of the Premier League, the Mirror reports.

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London, May 19 (ANI): Britain has been funding surveys in Pakistan's Tribal Areas which reveal that US drone strikes in the region are causing deep resentment among the local population.

Foreign Minister, Alistair Burt, confirmed that the Foreign Office had supported surveys which showed the proportion of respondents in the tribal areas who believed drone strikes were never justified had risen from 59 percent in 2010 to 63 percent in 2011, reports the Guardian.

It is the first

London, May 19 (ANI): Angelina Jolie, who recently got a double mastectomy and wants to get her ovaries removed next, is all set to portray the role of her own mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who died of ovarian cancer in 2007, in a new biopic.

The biopic celebrating Bertrand's life will go into production in 2014 under Brad Pitt's company 'Plan B', the Daily Express reported.

The 'Salt' star's mother was involved in humanitarian work herself and helped women Afghan

London, May 19 (ANI): Beyonce, who was rumored to be preggers with her second child, slammed the gossipmongers on Instagram.

After few weeks of heavy speculation, the mega-star shared a note online which read: I can't stop the rumors from starting, and I can't really change peoples minds who believe them, all I can do is sit back and laugh at these low life people who have nothing better to do than talk about me, the Mirror reported.

The pregnancy stories first started spreading

London, May 19 (ANI): Lara Bingle has revealed that she could have a new boyfriend, a new business venture and a new series this year, but wants to be more private this year.

Australian cricketer Michael Clarke's former girlfriend told Confidential magazine that she can do a second series of reality show 'Being Lara Bingle' if she wants to, although Channel 10 has denied it by saying that there is nothing planned at this point, the Daily Telegraph reported.

New Ten boss

Melbourne, May 19 (ANI): A guitar, once played by John Lennon and George Harrison of 'The Beatles,' was sold at 408,000 dollars, at an auction in New York.

The guitar, which was sold by Julien's Auctions at the Hard Rock Cafe on Times Square on Saturday, is a custom prototype, made in 1966, News.com.au reported.

The instrument fetched a hundred thousand dollars more than the pre-auction estimate of 200,000 to 300,000 dollars.

Harrison can be seen rehearsing with the