Dec 13 2006
The king of Vitamins (well almost) is Vitamin C. And, the good old Guava has a whole lot of it. One large guava (820g) contains 1,221mg of vitamin C, whereas the recommended daily adequate intake levels of vitamin C is around 100mg. Therefore, all...
Dec 12 2006
Partly as a result of global warming caused by emissions of greenhouse gases, the Arctic Ocean could be mostly open water in summer by 2040 - several decades earlier than previously expected, as concluded by a study done by the National Center for...
Dec 11 2006
Archaeologists working at the Burnt City in Sistan-Baluchestan Province, southeastern Iran discovered an artificial eye belonging to a large woman who died when she was 25 to 30 year old. This rare discovery at the 5200-year-old site throws light on...
Dec 8 2006
Afghanistan, the land of incessant turmoil has one more thing to worry about now, parents spreading drug use in the confines of their homes. Infants are inheriting drug addiction in the womb, and drinking opium-laced breast milk. And when he cries, he...
Dec 7 2006
Beijing Olympics may be more than a year ahead, but, Chinese authorities are leaving no stone unturned to make it a memorable event. After a dry run few months back of the inaugural ceremony, China has set out tightening measures on the storage and safe...
Dec 5 2006
An unusually well-preserved 65 million-year-old dinosaur nest containing fossil eggs was sold in an auction for nearly £212,000. The Cretaceous-era nest was unearthed in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong in 1984 and eventually was sold to...
Dec 2 2006
The super typhoon Durian hit the Philippines, leaving a trail of death and destruction. 248 confirmed dead, 300 reported missing and rescue operations seriously disrupted by non-availability of highway transportation, communication and electric power....
Nov 27 2006
78 dead, 28 injured and 11 missing, all in a period of few days in 3 different incidents at the Shanxi, Changyuan and Yuanhua coal mines in China. The reason being the same old ‘negligence in safety measures’. And these incidents are not...
Nov 27 2006
Britney did it again! The marketing gurus need to learn a few tricks of the trade from this ever-minting woman from the shores of America. The lady exactly knows what sells when. Be it the 55hrs marriage to a childhood pal or driving without a seatbelt...