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Saturday
 An angry Polish airline passenger ate a 8930 sterling pounds winning scratch card after he was told he could not claim the money immediately.
18 prisoners who were being taken to a Court hearing in Haryana escaped after attacking the police party. police were able to re arrest only two escapers.
In the forefront of country cadaver organ progamme recorded another milestone when two leading government hospitals. The G.H and Stanley Medical college hospital conducted five organ transplants in less than 14 hours.
In western Utter Pradesh a class eleven girl was abducted and raped by three of her classmates at gunpoint all three accusers are absconding.
Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen attacked a Kabul hotel and guest house full of Indian doctors and security personal 9 Indian were killed in the attack.
Sunday
 Jewels belonging to the murder mystery author Agatha Christie have been discovered in a battered trunk bought for 100 sterling pounds in a sale.
A 36 year old woman driver was caught flossing her teeth at 70 miles per hour on a motor at Godia, New port.
Two Previously unseen sketches by Adolf Hitler of a young nude woman and an elderly ladey are expected to raise 20,000 sterling pounds at an auction.
Around 3500 pilgrims from India took part in the Anthony’s church festival in Katchatheevu after a lapse of 27 years.
The official death toll from Chile’s devastating 8.8 Magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami waves measuring up to 2 meters hit Russia’s Pacific coastal also.
Monday
 A 14 month old boy in Jinhu. Eastern China born without pores in his skin has baffled doctors by developing fish scales. Doctors say because the common sweat or lose heat through his skin it peels away in fish like scales.
A Russian Chimpanzee has been sent to rehabilitate by zoo keepers to cure the smoking and beer drinking habit he has picked up. He always would pester passers by for a booze.
A desperate 52 year old mother from Cape town South Africa kills her 20 year old drug addict son was sentenced 3 years Jail term.
Researchers at a British university have found that intelligent men with higher IQ are less likely betray thpartners.
A new study say vehicles left unused in the sun for days at a time can emit damaging hydrocarbon one of the main ingredients in smog.
Tuesday
A new study claims frequent napping is asserted with increased risk type two diabetes in older adults.
Winston Spencer Churchill grandson of Britain’s war time prime minister and a member of Britain parliament dies of cancer at the age of 69.
A four inch nail thought to be used to crucify Jesus Christ in a decorated box has been found in a fort on the Ilheu de Pontinha of Madenia .
Archaeologists have discovered a 500 year old inscription on a cathedral a wall in Britain which they claim is the earliest ever form of English language.
Residents in a remote desert town in Australia witnessed two days of fish raining, hundreds of small fish fell from sky, believed the fish spangled perch were sucked up in a thunderstorm.

Wednesday
An 85 year old man in Dover, Kent , England, a life long smoker had his dying wish honoured when he had the words “Smoking killed me” in signs in his hearse.
A war veteran who thought he had arthritis to discover discomfort had actually been caused by a bullet which had been lodged in his hip for the last 66 years.
An online auction site ”TradeMe” is putting two vials for sale which apparently contain spirits of ghosts exorcised from a house in New Zealand
A rare sword and bronze cannon are among Tippu Sultan’s weapons and artifacts is to be auctioned at Sotheby’s in London estimated to fetch 50,000 to 70,000 sterling pounds.
Mammals which spend most of their time up a tree enjoy longevity over those which live on the ground, arbores ancestry may partially explain why humans have such long life span relative to other mammals

Thursday
A Japanese Scientist has developed a new injection systems that can deliver drug into human skin without causing any pain.
Researchers in London developed a miniature device capable of converting ultra fast laser pulses into bursts radio frequency signals thus making wires obsolete for communications in future.
A great great grand mother in London who toasted her 100th birthday with a cigarette and a tot of whiskey says she committed to smoking for the past 70 years, smoked half a million cigarettes.
Over 60 people all woman and children were killed and over a 100 injured in a stampede in Pratapgurgh district Uttar Pradesh, the crowd gathered to receive food and clothes in an ashram.
A clipping of hair apparently taken from Nepolean Bonapate on his death bed has been found in an old building in Sydney’s Town Hall after 130 years.
Friday
 A group of Psychologists from the university of Arizona and Washington university find that happy people tend to talk more than unhappy people.
Love letter and telegrams written by former U.S. President John F. Kennedy to his Swedish lover in 1950s were sold in an auction for over one lakh fifteen thousand dollars.
A couple in South Korea was hooked to an oniline game where they were raising a virtual daughter left their own 3 months old daughter stave to death.
China puts 23 people on trail on suspicion of involvement in the sale of nearly 50 babies in what the state media described as one of the country’s biggest ever child trafficking cases.
Russia’s far Eastern Aarur region has received yellow coloured snowfall. A similar phenomenon took place in the year 2006.

Saturday
 A 48 year old weighing 70 stones thought to be world’s heaviest man has been taken to Ipswich hospital after suffering a suspected heart attack.
An incredible image of a tiny ant carrying 100 times of own body weight while hanging upside down from a glass like surface snapped by scientists at Cambridge university won the first prize in a National photo competition
According to a media report the hands of 5 persons charged with theft were amputated on the orders of a Taliban court in North Pakistan.
Recent medical research has confirmed that heart disease are linked to ones temperament and state of mind. happy people less likely to develop heart problems.
A cow from the Ever green View Farm in Eastern Wisconsin has set a new National Milk production record by pumping 8400 gallons of milk in one year.

Sunday
 National Library of France has brought the memories of celebrated Ventian lover Gicomo Casanova written by him in 1789 for 7 million euros.
Researchers in Norway have found that cooking with gas produces more potentially harmful fumes than electric cooking might increase the risk of certain type of cancer for professional chefs and cooks.
US Scientists at the University of California Berkeley has claimed that a nap of for 90 minutes does better at cognitive tests than those who were kept awake.
Bio- Diesel from fish waste may soon power Indian vehicles with the country’s first plant to come up along the Kochi coast line, Initially to be used by fishing vessels.
In a serious security lapse a drunken lorry driver rammed through the Secretariat complex and entered the parking lot allotted to the Deputy Chief Minster

Monday

 Gemstone producer Gemfields has announced the discovery of an exceptional 6225 carat rough emerald in its Kagem mines in Zambia.
A study at the Cambridge university claims that sleepless nights can shrink a person’s brain.
A 5 day old girl was brunt to death due to over heating from a convector in a state run hospital in Maharastra city.
A drunken teacher in a local high school at Kadamdihi, Orissa, thrashed two 11 year old class six students for not answering questions suffered injuries in their faces and one of them suffered multiple cracks in his right hand.
Experts at the university of Australia say that the wild green oats contain bioactive nutrients which could boost brain power maintain even unto old age.

Tuesday

An Israeli archaeologist says the newly excavated ancient fortifications date back 3000 years to the time of the Bible’s King Solomon and offer evidence for the accuracy of the biblical narrate.
Giant George, Great Dane from Arizona has been named the tallest dog by the Guinness Books of Records. George is 1.9 meters tall.
A rare copy of the first comic book a 1938 edition featuring Superman sold for 1 million dollars smashing previous record price for a comic book.
A study at the University of California said that small domesticated dogs probably originated in the Middle East more than 12000 years ago as descendants of grey wolves.
A poverty stricken 97 year old man in Vietnam won up to 40,0000 dollars in a lottery sparking a frenzy among relatives.
Wednesday

 A 35 year old violent woman criminal used a spoon to dig a tunnel to find her way out of a prison in southern Netherlands.
Scientists at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research Kalapakkam has succeeded in developing nano sensors capable of detecting diabetes in human body which is a simple, fast and inexpensive process.
Indian Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar scored the first ever double century in the 39 year old history of International limited overs in which 2962 ODls have been played.
Scientist at Saint Louis university found that an extract from bitter gourd to be a giant slayer of breast cancer besides highly beneficial against diabetes, high blood pressure heart burn, cholesterol level and ulcers.
An international quest warrant has been issued for the 30 year old Lingerie Model who is believed to be heading one of the World’s largest drug gangs in Mexico.
Thursday

A Vietnamese man who was thought to have the world’s longest hair 6.8 meters long dies at the age of 79. He was growing the hair for well over 50 years.
5 year old Guiliano Stroe believed to be the world’s strongest boy creates records by performing 20 air push ups live on Romanian Television.
Thorp Park in a Surrey, United Kingdom has asked the public for an unusual contribution of their urine. The park will pay 500 stealing pounds for the most pungent smelling urine
In Ipswich Suffolk, a hen laid an egg four times the size of the size of a normal egg, 9 cm high and had a circumferences of 21 cm.
A 27 year old Spanish priest has been dismissed after he advertised as a male prostitute on the internet, spent funds on telephone sex and internet pornography
Friday

 Two inhuman police men in Naubastu police station in Kanpur district robbed 4 lakhs cash from a man who met with an accident and dumped the man in the mortuary. For want of immediate medical care the man succumbed to his injures.
Researchers say a 2550 square kilo metre block iceberg broke off from the Metz Glacier Tongue and is floating into the southern ocean from east Antarctica due south of Melbourne.
Britain’s Royal Mail took 27 years to deliver a parcel to a place just 6 miles away The parcel was posted on 2.11.1982 and was delivered on 23.2.2010.
Petra Diamonds in London sold a 507 carat diamond for 25.3 million dollars creating a record of the highest price paid for a rough diamond
In a First of its kind Gujarati’s second largest dairy Dudhsega Dairy of Mehsana set to flag of a train to transport milk to the country’s biggest milk market Delhi by the end of this year.

Saturday
 A teenager made Medical history by becoming the first person to be discharged from a pediatric hospital in South Texas with an implanted mechanical heart pump.
An Indian American professor and his two colleagues where shot dead when a disgruntled woman faculty member went on a shooting spree at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
A media reports as many as 58 executives of the BBC earn more than the British Prime Minister whose salary is 1,94,250 sterling pounds per annum.
A two month old girl from Bihar was accidentally trampled to death by drunk relatives at a wedding in Southern Nepal.
A 22 year old Hungarian student who told the police he planned to kill 22 people at random because he had 22 bad years.

Sunday

 A 73 year old pensioner unarmed robbed three banks in Florida 600 dollars from each bank to pay his mortgage was arrested and faces a penalty of 15 years jail term for each charge.
Scientists have successfully transplanted most of the nose of the mosquito centered its antennae that spread malaria into frog eggs and fruit flies are employing the surrogates to combat the spread of malaria.
27 Gold coins with Arabic inscriptions were unearthed by farm workers in Poosanur village in Thoothukudi district were confiscated by police.
Latin America’s main development bank announces that the damage from Haiti earthquake on 12th January is twice the value of the country’s annual economy.
Having chips might be considered bad for health for its high carbohydrates counts but a new study by the potato council claims that improves a person’s mood and makes him or her calm or more cheerful.

Monday

A Mumbai born entrepreneur plans to re-launch the East Indian Company after strenuously acquiring shares in the firm that once ruled India.
Investigators in Belgium say that they have found an important clue that may help them to recover the haul from the World’s largest diamond robbery in which gems and cash worth up to 350 million pounds were stolen.
A liquor outlet in Britain has come up with an unique way to combat underage drinking by installing an electronic fingerprint gadget to identify the age.
The popular Cartoon character “Dennis the Menace” will no longer be seen wearing his traditional catapult as the creators have admitted that it is being redrawn to appear less violent.
A powerful blast ripped Pune’s famous German Bakery killing 10 persons and injuring more than 43. Among the dead there were 3 foreigners

Tuesday

A letter written by John F. Kennedy to a Swedish woman during his affair with her in early 1950s is expected to fetch 25000 dollars at an auction.
South Korean researchers have developed the world’s first Tangerine based gel that has the potential to be used make artificial skin, which can effectively protect damaged skin from infections.
A Russian businessman has been arrested for murder after local person was allegedly assaulted by him succumbed to injuries at Panaji Goa over a petty brawl
Britain airways is planning to establish Europe’s first green Jet fuel plant that would turn rubbish into carbon neutral aviation fuel by the year 2014
Researchers in Egypt, Italy and Germany in an extensive study reveal that Egypt’s famed king Tutankhamen suffered from a cleft palate clubfoot and died of complications from a broken leg and exacerbated by malaria 30 centuries ago.

Wednesday

Michael Gurevitz a professor in Tel Aviv University in his new study says scorpion venom is notoriously poisonous but it can potentially replace dangerous and addictive pain killers like morphine.
Psychological scientists from university of British Columbia and a researcher says babies who hear two languages regularly when they are in their mother’s womb are more open to being bilingual.
Perkin Elmer Health Science laboratory in Collaboration with an American health care giant launches the country’s first foetal maternal and new born screening lab in Chennai.
A team at Washington University in U S has designed an artificial foot which they claim recycles energy otherwise wasted in between steps making it easier for amputees to walk.
A survey says Indians figure among first ten in the list of the most attractive looking people in the world while America top the list.

Thursday

In Meerut a couple were to be married on February 16th but the groom met with a road accident and was admitted to ICU the bride did not want to postpone the marriage and the couple were married at the ICU as arranged.
Two kids missed the 7th standard Board Exam because the unfortunate parents could not pay the exam fee of Rs.25/ each, in Kantapada village Orissa.
An 89 year old man in Saibanamedu in North Vellore was handed over to the police by the public for teasing school girl students.
A Colombian woman declared dead of heart attack moved one of hers arms just as an undertaker was about to embalm her.
Two drunk Iranian women assaulted the traffic police and the TV crew when they were booked for drunk driving with out a valid license.
Friday

 In Noida a bridegroom was shot dead when his drunk relatives opened celebratory fire at a wedding ceremony . The groom was hit on the head when his paternal uncle fired from his double barrel gun during the brides farewell.
British Scientists from Oxford University have found a way to keep vaccines stable even in room temperatures to overcome worst problems in healthcare, faulty and inadequate cold chain for vaccine storage.
Researchers from the University of London Institute of Education tracked 15000 children over the first four years of their life and found that those kids who could not crawl at 9 months face falling behind at school
 A Saudi court has sentenced a 50 year old employee of Kingdom’s religious police to 120 Lashes for marrying 6 women
In an unique wedding 100 year old Shafi Mohamed a resident of Dera Sarai Phulwar in Sambhal district married 90 year old Quraisha a resident of Turitipura village with a crowd of their grand and great grand children

Saturday
 Connie Brown the oldest working woman dies aged 102 year after briefly being admitted to hospital for the first time in life. She had worked 6 days a week for 80 years.
 A 3 day old boy whose right hand was cut allegedly due to the negligence o doctors during a caesarean operation at a Govt Hospital in Udaipur died in hospital.
 For the first time in more than 50 years Britain Queen Elizabeth will address the UN General Assembly. The queen addressed the US Assembly only in one previous occasion in 1957.
 Britain will soon have a burial ground where humans can be laid to rest next to their loved pets.
 An International team lead by Queensland University’s researches has found that marriages make a woman fatter up to 4 pounds and up to nine pounds after a baby.

Sunday
 Million of people from Sydney to Sweden are to set to switch off their lights at 8.30pm on March 27th as a part of global earth hour campaign and highlighting climate change.
 European space engineers plan to collect solar energy from space and beam back to earth by laser to power homes and electric vehicles that could help provide a solution to the planets dwindling energy supplies.
 A US base company has developed an instrument called Endoscope by which a 15 minute non surgical treatment that could lead to drastic weight loss and remove the onset of diabetes.
 A pot full of copper coins were unearthed in a village near Mannargudi in Tiruvarur District while earth was scooped by an earth remover.
 A 25 year old Italian man was rescued after spending 11 days buried in the ruins of a grocery shop survived on snacks and coca cola.

Monday
A 50 year old man hurled his shoe at Sudanese President Omar al-Bishi in a hallway. The shoe missed the president.
Mayanmar prodemocratic leader Ms Aung San Suu Kiji is to be freed in November 2010 after being in house arrest for over 20 years.
Sadam’s Hussain notorious cousin known as Chemical Ali who was responsible for the killing of thousands of kurds in 1991 has been finally executed.
An application for the iPhone has helped a British woman who was considering in vitro fertilization (ivp) treat has become pregnant thus she becomes the first Britain awaiting the first iPhone baby.
All 90 people abroad an Ethiopian Airline plane were feared dead after it plunged into the Mediterranean sea minutes after taking off from Beirut.

Tuesday
Doctors in Peru mistakenly amputated the wrong foot of an 86 year old man instead of his infected foot. The doctors involved were suspended.
6 lakhs pilgrims have booked to see the world famous shroud of Turin which goes on show in the Northern Italy city of Turin in April 2010.
A part of Southwest Houston Texas, home to a large number of south Asians including Indians has been officially renamed Mahatma Gandhi District to hounour the leader on his 141 birth year.
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) has found a new technique of increasing milk yield in cows by resting the cows comfortably on specially made rubber mats, more comfort more milk they say.
An astronomer at a Royal Society Conference in London said that an earth like planate is likely to be discovered out in the solar system by the year end.

Wednesday
A woman in Wisconsin tried to extort money from a upscale restaurant by putting a rat in her lunch and demanded 5,00,000 dollars and threatened to alert the media.
A retired schoolteacher in Concord who tired 100 years old earlier this month earned her bachelors degree the day before she died two days ago.
Police in Eastern Germany found a new born baby in the refrigerator of the 21 year old mothers apartment who was in psychiatric care.
A German man who suffered 44 small lizards into his underwear was arrested before boarding a plane in New Zealand.
An Islamize Supreme Court president fall back and suffered bruises when she was hit on her forehead by a shoe thrown by a 50-year-old man during a court proceedings.

Thursday
In a stunning recovery, French resources pulled out a 16 year old girl alive from the debris of a home 15 days after the earthquake in Hachi.
After growing pressure from Animal Rights activists the Chinese Government bans on eating dog and cat meat from April. Any one eating their pet’s will be fined 450 dollars or 15 days in jail.
A US Court has declared former Satyam Computers Chairman Ramalingja Raju and his brother Ramaraju as paupers because they were unable to meet their court charges.
An Australian study says after surveying 4677 men and 4563 women that overweight adults who have crossed 70 years live longer.
In a naval study, scientists from Stanford University have successfully transformed skin cells into nerve cells, an advancement that could pave way for new treatment of dementia.

Friday
 A study has claimed that Australia is the most sinful nation on earth ranking first overall in the seven deadly sins which include lust, greed and pride.
A Chinese porcelain vase used as an umbrella stand for emperor Qianlong in 1740, worth 500,000 sterling pounds has been recovered from auction house in Dorchester.
Researchers in Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston say the drug valpori acid could improve the survival from injuries particularly in soldiers by preventing certain biological mechanism from shutting down.
Prof Julio Santiago de Torres at the university of Granade says right handed people favour the right and associates the direction of positively and is the opposite for the left handers.
A Dutch court has ruled that the dismissal was too server a measure meted against an employee of McDonalds restaurant who gave a colleague restaurant who gave an extra Peace of cheese on a hamburg.

SATURDAY
 The eyes of a 5 hour old infant who died of respiratory problems were donated by its parents at Thuvakadu near Trichy.

 Nasa experts claims that by the end of 2010 the most intriguing question on “Is there life on Mars” for every one on Earth would be answered by American scientists.

 Mehmet Ali Agea the Turk who tried to kill Pope Paul II in 1981 has been freed from jail after 30 years. He is now 52 years old.

 A pedal operated washing machine which does not need power, clean clothes and also helps the operator get rid of extra body fat will soon hit Indian markets.

 Australian scientists have claimed that fish can remember things for months dismissing the fact that the aquatic animals have 3 second memory.

SUNDAY
 Scientist say rabbit milk may treat heart patients because the milk contains a protein called CI Inhibiter. The milk could help rejection of transplant organs and tissue damage.

 95 year old CPM Patriarch, India’s longest serving Chief Minister (23 years uninterrupted) Jyoti Basu passes away in a private hospital in Kolkata.

 North Carolina Detectives find a marijuana garden in a school bus buried 8 feet under a back yard tool shed. Officers seized 68 plants worth 40,000 dollars.

 A warning issued two years ago that most Himalayan glaciers will melt by 2035 due to climate change is likely to be retracted after inter governmental panel admitted to scientific blunder.

 Australian researchers have found that regular playing the wind instrument Didgeridoo and singing can help alleviate the symptoms of Asthma.

MONDAY
Spain to open its world’s first Gastronomic University with a research lab to explore the mysteries chemistry of taste.

British Scientist have succeeded in trying knots in light using special holograms which helped them bend and control beams of light.

South Korean scientists have developed a human like walking robot maid which can clean house, dump clothes in a washing machine and even heat food in a microwave.

A new research says that Egypt pyramids were not built by slaves but build by people pharaoh picked up outside local rock foundries.

A team at the University of California has developed synthetic muscle that can restore the ability of facial paralysis patients who can’t close their eyelids to blink.

TUESDAY
29 year old Shakeia Robson, a British Lady can predict rain by the intense of her headache. She always gets a migraine before the rain.

A 76 year old Taxi driver and a widower of U.K gets 26.1 million sterling pounds in a lottery plans to give the majority of his fortune away to charity and cancer research.

According to scientist at the Cambridge University, regular jogging leads to growth of new cells in the area of the brain which in turn boosts memory.

It is reported that 4000 prisoners escaped from the quake damaged prisons in Haiti. United Nations has arranged to capture the escaped prisoners.

Israeli scientists at Haifu University have discovered a new way to catch liars by analyzing their handwriting.

WEDNESDAY
A teenage school girl in Saudi, assaults her school principal for confiscating her mobile camera phone, which is banned in the school was sentenced to 90 lashes in the court of law.

A lone gunmen went on a shooting rampage in a Virginia country killing 8 people including his wife and son.

A home appliance company Ariete has made a super iron called “Auto Lift” with micro sensors embedded in the handle which will not burn clothes at any time.

143 students in a hostel of the Symbiosis Center for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD) were admitted to hospital in the city of Pune for food poisoning.

Robert Koch Institute in Berlin Germany has developed a fast acting disinfectant that is effective against bacteria, virus and other germs could also help stop deadly infections in hospitals.

THURSDAY
23 inmates were killed in a brail between rival gangs at a Northern Mexican east prison.

An Indian American woman executive was indicted by a federal grand jury in a US Court on charges of defaulting her company to the tune of a whopping 31 million dollars.

Spanish researchers have invented an iPhone application called cry translator which they claim 96% accurate in interpreting cries distress from babies because even most attentive parents often fail to find out why their baby is crying.

Thieves rob ancient Silver coins and many more antiques from an archaeological dig those were on display at a highly guarded exhibition in Israel.

A 47 year old lady who runs Clifton Cakes in Bristol, makes designer shoes and hand bags from chocolate by hand at her own kitchen using a vintage shoe mould.

FRIDAY
Japanese scientist from Tokyo University has invented “elastic” water consisting 95% water with 2 grams clay and small quantity of organic matter. The new material could be used for the production of ecologically clean plastic materials.

According to report by global consultancy firm price water house cooper (PWHC) India could become the worlds third largest economy by power party (PPP) overtaking Japan in 2012.

A new study at the University of Manchester claims toothpaste with high concentration of fluoride prevent tooth decaying in kids but they also increase the rest of developing mild fluorotis.

The first ever detailed research finds large diamond ocean in one or both planets of Neptune and Uranus topped with liquid diamond with solid ice burgs of the precious gem.

79 year old Trilok Singh Chawla of Thailand a close aide of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose has a wish before he breathes his last to return to India two pistols belong to Subash Chandra Bose has sent his son to meet the Indian Prime Minister.

Saturday

Jenny Champman of Deeping St.James Cambridge shire has beenc identified as the loudest snoring Britain. Her snores can even drown out the sound of a low flying jet.

The world’s first underwater cabinet meeting has been held by the Ministers of Maldive Islands at the bottom of the sea. The Ministers at the meeting used white boards and hand signals to communicate.

An Indian Army man set a new record in skydiving by jumping 25000 feet in an event held at Mount Everest becomes the first from India to achieve the feat
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A new study led by scientists of Indian origin in Washington has determined that plants may not have eyes and ears but they can still recognize their siblings.

A Church in the United States is planning to burn bibles and books by Christian authors on Halloween, because the church only follows King James version of Christianity.

Sunday

Rocks from a 4.6 billion year old meteorite smashed the window shield of a truck in Grimsby near Niagara falls, confirm astronomers of the Universoty of Western Ontario.

The Mexican Police has found the chopped up bodies of nine men in 18 plastic bags inside a van, the grisly discovery came amid a wave of suspected drug related murders.

A scientist at Massaschusetts Institute of Techonology is building robots that can run as fast as the cheeta.A prototype robot from a light weight carbon fibre foam composite that can run at 35 M.PH.

For once Former US President Bill Clinton who changes hefty fees for his speaking assingments spoke free at Mc Gill University Montreal, Canada which hououred him for his lifetime of outstanding leadership.

The busting of crackers during Diwali has generated about 1000 tonnes of extra garbage in Chennai city for the past three days.The city normaly generates 3600 tonnnes of garbages per day.

Monday

Australia’s Sydney has been voted the best city in the world for the eight consecutive year in the poll by a renowned travel magazine on a variety of criteria including ambience, friendliness, culture and sight, restaurants lodging and shopping.

Professor Martin Wiseman, Medical and Scientific advisor for the world Cancer Research finds that vitamin supplements do nothing to stave of illness and could even lead to cancer.

Astromer Stephen Udrey of the University of Geneva has found 32 new planets outside the solar system adding evidence to the theory that the Universe has many places where life could develop.

In a shocking incident, five women were paraded naked in an open field in front of hundreds of villagers forced to consume human excreta in Jarkhand Village after they were branded as witches.

A team of researchers at Algarh Muslim University claims to have developed a technique that can preserve flowers up to 15 years by treating the flowers and leaves with certain chemicals including copper sulphate, prosperous acid etc.

Tuesday

A 59 year old doctor in Germany was taken to task, accused o killing 13 cancer patients. She however denied the charges saying it was her job to help patients who were dying of cancer.

A Spanish bride in South West Barcelona spent her wedding night in jail after she hit a policeman trying to break up a brawl between her family and relatives of the groom.

Stamp papers to the value of Rs.2 crores have been eaten up by white ants in Talcher Sub Treasury in Orissa during the two day Diwali holidays.

A group of Indians has drawn up a 20 million dollar plan to build a replica of the Taj Mahal in New Zealand at the Mahatma Gandhi Center in Auckland

It is a unique love story in Sitapur District of Lucknow, a 19 year old boy was so moved at the plight of a 57 year old widow not only fell in love with her but married her.

Wednesday

32 year old Yu Zhenhuan from Northern China the worlds hairiest man who has hair on 96% of his body because of a hormone imbalance from the age of 7 will undergo a plastic surgery soon.

Marcos Antonco Da Luz, a 34 year old Brazilian makes a living for the past eight years by washing his face with broken glass pieces in public.

196 Indian Languages are endangered according to the UNESCO lot of scholars and policy maker’s are meeting in New Delhi to discuss how to save these languages.

Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labotary in California detected water, Methane and Carbon dioxide the basis chemistry for life in one more new planet outside the solar system.

A new study says that pacifier, baby bottle or thumb sucking may hamper a child’s speech development if the habit goes on too long. The children are more likely to have difficulty in producing certain word sounds.

Thursday

A prominent opposition MP of the Malaysian Parliament faces expulsion from the parliament after being convicted of biting a police man at a protest.

A woman was arrested after she reported that two men broke into her Detroit home and tried to steal her marijuana plants, which she grew in pots.

A science teacher in Chennai has come up with an innovative cost effective way of re-cycling waste water from wash basins and re-using them in cistern tanks in commercial buildings.

A wolf killed an 8 month old baby and mauled three other people when they tried to rescue the baby boy in Compargang Village Lucknow.

24 year old Mohammed Patel a Britain who staged car crash for money helping fraudsters claim 1.6 million pounds from Insurance firms was jailed. Patel charged 500 pounds a time to set up a crash enabling them to claim an average of 17,000 pounds.

Friday

The worlds longest 1367km golf course has been opened in Australia. The holes are positioned near petrol stations and motels along the mostly deserted Highways.

A Malaysian woman gave premature birth to a boy on board an Air Asia in Kuala Lumpur will have be free flights for life with the carrier.

A new study says eating more plant based foods which are rich in substances called phytochemicals could help fight obesity.

A incredibly rare 2000 year old 33.5 inch high glass vase held at the British Museum considered to be academically and artistically priceless.

Saturday

Ancient relic’s including a bone fragment and hairs of an Indian Buddhist monk were found hidden inside a statue of Buddha on display in a Museum in Russia.

A 40 year old German woman has given birth to a healthy baby despite having being in a coma for the last 22 weeks of her pregnancy following a heart attack.

Two year old Oscar Wrigley, one of the brightest children with an I.Q of 160 has become the youngest boy in Britain to be accepted into Mensa. Oscar has the same I.Q as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.

Albania seeks noble peace laureate, Mother Teresa’s remains be returned to her motherland. Mother Theresa was born in Macedonia to an ethnic Albanian family in 1926, died and buried at Kolkatta.

Gangardeep Singh a budding cricketer who represented India in an under 19 series in Australia recently was shot dead after being caught in a row between a shopkeeper and a customer in the city of Merit.

Sunday

 A 62 year old man in Florida shoots his 62 year old bride, to be on the eve of their wedding day after he mistook her for an intruder when he heard suspicious noises in his home in darkness.

 Despite Police personnel guarding the temple complexes, cash boxes from the inner perimeter at the famous Thiyagarayah Temple at Tiruvarur were looted.

 47 year old Jeanette Perry of Queensland’s Australia has become the oldest women to deliver triplets naturally.

 31 year old Mathew Millington of Brown Lees Stafford Shrine, dies after being given cancerous liver transplant. The lung was taken from a person believed to have smoked 30 to 50 cigarettes a day.

 An 18 year old cricketer representation Megalaya under 19 team died after being hit by a cricket ball on his head during practice session.

Monday

 In an ugly demonstration of inhumanity, a couple in Orissa has deserted their two daughters aged 3 and 2 years just few days after being blessed with a male child. The two kids were handed over to the local orphanage.

 China is to build or replica of the Pentagon, Headquarters of the US Defence department at a cost of 150 milling sterling pounds. The building on competition will house a shopping center in Shanghai.

 A political counsellor with the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi was electrocuted by a defective hairdryer in his residents. He was declared dead on arrival at a hospital.

 A 37 year old Tailor in Kanchipuram District stabbed and kill his 11 and 6 year old daughters with a pair of scissors after his wife eloped with her lover leaving him behind with the two children.

 A new study says France has the best quality of life out of Europe’s biggest countries while Britain has the worst despite having the highest income.

Tuesday

 A carving vegetarian spider called Bagheera Kiplingi has been found in the forest of Central America. The first ever discovery of such spiders.

 A school in England has ordered to pay 19000 sterling pounds to a 16 years old student after she lost nearly all her fingers when she put her hands in a bucket of plaster of paris during an art lesson.
 A British entrepreneur who introduced household vacuum cleaners now unveils Dayson Air Multiplier fan a desktop cooling devise with no blades and say it is better than AC.

 Dacoits waylaid a remittance van of the ICICI Bank shot dead the custodian of the vehicle and took away Rs.80 lakhs in cash and gold near Sipajhar in Assam.

 Scientists have reported the discovery of the tiniest dinosaur footprints ever found, left 125 to 110 million years ago are just 1.27cm and 1.51cm long in Changseon Island near South Korean capital of Seoul.

Wednesday

A Cambridge University historian after research say that Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was a well paid British spy during the First World War.

63 year old Borah of Tejpur Assam has been in self confinement for 47 year in a room because he failed the matriculation exam in 1962 and he could not bear his mothers wraths. He did not even come out when his mother died.

Scholars at Visva Bharatis Rabindra Bhavan have stumbled upon a treasure trove of sixteen poems of Tagore never published before tucked among thousands of manuscripts.

85 year old CB.Muthamma India’s first woman career diplomat and first woman ambassador dies in a Hospital at Bangalore.

A previously unknown portrait by Leonardo Da Vinci, potentially worth tens of million pounds has been discovered in London with the painters finger prints on it.

Thursday

After a through investigation, it is proved that explorer Christopher Columbus was a Spanish. He came from the Kingdom of Aragon and his mother tongue was Catalan.

American President Barack Oblama celebrated Diwali at the White House by lightning the ceremonial lamp amidst chanting of vedic mantras becoming the first US President to personally grace the occasion.

A 63 year old woman had a shock of her life when she found 107 sovereigns of gold jewellery kept in a Bank locker in Pondy Bazzar was missing.

A Congress Lok Sabha M.P. from Andhra Pradesh offers a golden shield worth Rs.3.7 crores to Lord Venkateswarar of the famous hill shrine of Tirumala.

A new study says the much touted naturally produced molecurle called resvevatroe found in red wine may help squeeze out diabetes

Saturday

 A bread and butter pudding weighing 3300 pounds and measuring 7 feet by 5 feet was created to celebrate the British food fortnight. It took 7 bread experts and 49 hours to make it.

 Archaeologists have found a cellar in the University town of Pies in Southern Hungary, which they believe to have belonged to Dracula who actually lived from 1431 to 1476.

 A 5 year old Indian girl Varsha Vinod who is considered the worlds youngest Black Belt Holder, has surprised a British Karate champion with her skills when she had a spar with him.

 A 13 year old school boy’s 16 year old girl friend gives birth
to a baby girl in Britain. Both the families have vowed
to support them.

 A group of 14 people at a remote grotto near Dungloe, Ireland has claimed that the statue of the Virgin Mary wept and that they saw crosses appear in the night sky.

Sunday

 A Swedish family asked for damages of 30,000 Euros after a pastor performed a funeral service apparently drunk and for misbehaving during the funeral service.

 A 31 year old single mother with a four year old son in the United Kingdom sells all her possessions for one sterling pound each including a Volkswagen polo car in order to make a fresh start of her life.

 A 50 year old farmer at Belwan in Bihar while tilling his fields, his bull in the plough suddenly turned around and pinned him to the ground with his horns and killed him.

 A blood stained woman in the US was arrested for allegedly biting her boy friend’s tongue and hit him over the head with a beer bottle during an argument.

 A shootout on a packed running train in Gujarat following a tiff between a passenger and a rail staff over a bill payment killing a young man and another injured.

Monday

 Indian Scientists at the Central Rice Institute (CRRI) at Cuttack in Orissa claims to have developed a rice variety that requires no cooking only soaking in water.

 Mark Terzu and Amy Pearce both yoga fanatics from the United States fly to India to get married at a Temple in Chowpatty according to Hindu customs.

 Scottish scientist have come up with a new “pill” for men that drastically reduces the sperm count and say
its better than condoms.

 Three Americans Elizabeth.H.Black Burn, Carol Wagered and Jack W Syostak won the 2009 Noble Prize for Medicine for their research on ageing
 Researchers have reported recently that their research have proved that a daily dose of Vitamin D improves strength balance and bone strength in elderly there by preventing frequent falls.

Tuesday

 Christy Harp of Jackson Township in Ohio has won the first prize for her giant pumpkin weighing 1725 pounds, creating a world record.

 An Alabama woman has been arrested for letting her baby ride in a cardboard box on top of her van on a State Highway.

 An Italian scientist says he has reproduced the Shroud of Turin and says definitively that the Christ’s burial cloth is a medieval fake.

 A father and son from Nesapakkam has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a doctor employed in a Government Hospital because the doctor came one hour late to the hospital.

 A rare image of a circular rainbow has been taken from the window of a Thai Airways jet. The full circle of a rainbow could only be seen if the viewer were standing on a sufficient high cliff or from an aircraft.

Wednesday

 Indian born American Scientists V.Ramakrishnan a Tamilian born at Chdambarm of Tamil Nadu wins the Noble prize for Chemistry.

 A baby boy born in a train toilet in the moving Tata-Chhapra Express slipped down the outlet into the tracks but miraculously escaped unhurt.

 The Environment Protection Bureau in Taiwan is encouraging the public to pick up garbage including dog excretment for a three dollar reward.

 Bucharest food festival in Romania cooked the world’s longest line of Pizzas measuring over 1500 feet comprising of 2200 pizzas, made it into the Record Book.

 French company Voyageurs du Monde has bought the historic house where Mahatma Gandhi was living in South Africa and hopes to turn the house into a Gandhi Museum.

Thursday

 Officials in Florida seized a pet Buriers Python weighing 177 kgs land 18 feet long, after being deemed unsafe. The officials call it the largest snake they have ever seen.

 One of the world’s smallest editions of Bible printed in Scotland weighing just 10 grams which can fit in a matchbox is on display at an exhibition in Puduchery.

 Shane Thomas a 10 year old British School boy has been predicted to the new mozart after he displayed his genius with just 4 months of formal piano lessons.

 A 36 year old man was accused of throwing his 4 year old daughter off a Melbourne Bridge 190 feet below into the Yarra river and told his ex-wife that she would never see their child again.

 As many as 125 poisonous snakes were caught by snake charmers at the Tirunelvely Medical College Hospital premises and later released at Metapattam hillock.

Friday

American President Barack Obama wins the 2009 Noble Prize for Peace. He is the third US President to receive the Noble prize while in office.

A gang of thieves in Mexico dressed up as clowns burst into a jewellery shop in the city of Guadalajar and made off with 900,000 dollars booty.

An angry teenager in Falmouth kicked his mother in the throat, head butted his brother and punched his father after his mother took away his cell phone to punish him.

A 30 year old banker who fantasized about becoming a surgeon is said to have worked in a UK Hospital with forged medical papers for 14 months and taken part in 190 operations.

Searching for stocks of water, on the moon, National Aeronautics and space administration crashed two space crafts on the moon hoping to splash ice into the light

Saturday

Three Buddhist devotees walked hundreds of kilometers from Tibet to the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh gaya to pray for the long life of their spiritual leader Dalai Lama.

Moscow celebrates Durga Puja for the 20th time in a row this year at the Interclub of the Peoples Friendship University where most of the students from India and Bangladesh study.

An Australian town pulled off all bottled water from its shelves and replaced it with refillable bottles in what is believed to be the world’s first ban on bottled water.

A rat holds up an Air India’s Amritsar - Toronto flight via London aboard 238 passengers for eleven hours at Amiristar.

A man in New York sues one of the largest banks in America for 1784 billion trillion dollars alleging that cheques were rejected because of uncompleted routing numbers in his account.

Sunday

World Heart Day 2009 which falls on September 27th, 2009 is a day dedicated to creating awareness about the risks of heart disease and ways to prevent it. The theme for this year was ‘Work with Heart’ is a clarion call to wake up and take stock of ‘what works for your heart and what does not’ before it is too late.

Veteran Journalist V.Ramachandran who worked in The Hindu for over five decades passed away in Chennai after a brief illness. He was 87 years old. His daughters and son survive him.

John Wembusa won the Idea Chennai Half Marathon in the International men’s category. The Kenyan ranked 42nd in the world pocketed a cash prize of Rs.5 lakh. The International Women’s category was also won by a Kenyan Nelly Jepkurui, who is ranked 15th in the world.

National Headquarters of the Bharat Scouts and Guides has awarded the Silver Elephant Award, the highest award in India in scouting to V.Carmelus, Chief Mechanical Engineer of Southern Railway. He received the award from the President of India Smt Pratibha Patel.

A 5 year old girl of Nethaji Nagar in Tondiarpet who stepped on a live wire accidentally that was in a pool of water while playing suffered an electric shock and was admitted to a hospital in a critical condition.

Monday

The theory that Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a bunker by shooting himself has been proved wrong as DNA tests have found that the skull fragments are actually of a female.

People in an African village were recently left shell shocked by the birth of a bizarre creature that had a large human like head and the legs and body of a goat.

A New Zealand photographer snapped the image of a Kiwi his country’s national icon. According to reports, the photographer snapped the image of the Kiwi which was 26,000 light years away.

‘’Huachansir’’ a Chinese medicine made from dried venom secreted by the skin glands of toads should promise in slowing down cancer progressing in patients.

In a freak accident a 49 year old man was killed at Adyar when a road side tree crashed on the auto-rickshaw in which he was travelling with his son.

Tuesday

A 37 year old mother and her 38 year old friend have been arrested for loking up her 14 year old son in a bedroom closet for four and a half years in Oklahoma city.

A new research says that having a pet in your life can help you stay hale and hearty and will keep improve your psychological health.

 Katherin Bringmann of the University of Cologne Germany has been chosen for 2009 Sastra Ramanujan Prize of 10,000 dollars for 2009 Mathematics on December 22.

65 year old Arun Gokulray of Ciombatore an honorary advisor for the Indian Medicial Association Rotary Blood Bank has created record by donating blood for 150 times in the last 46 years
.

A 92 year old Hampshire woman perhaps the oldest person to take a jump, has celebrated her birthday by skydiving from a plane over 13000 feet and landed without a scratch.

Wednesday

A London farm horse that is 7 feet 3 inches tall is said to be running for a Guinness World Record for his height. The reigning champion stands 6 feet 8 inches tall.

Thursday

A Bangaladeshi farmer who killed more than 80,000 rats won a colour TV and was crowned the country’s champion rat killer.

A 60 year old psycho dad locked up his wife and 3 daughters aged 27, 22 and 21 in a room of his flat at Naigaon in Thane District fearing that they would be raped if they ventured out of the house.

A team of Geologists from Periyar University Salem has discovered largest dinosaur nesting pits, eggs and egg clusters near Ariyaloor, Salem.

A fearless mouse in London proved he is not one to be taken lightly. The mouse stood on its hind legs and let out its loudest squeak, which sent the furry cat running away.

Medical Journal “The Lancet” says that more than half of the babies born now in rich countries will live to 100 years if current trend of life expectancy continue.

British Scientist says that mothers who smoke during pregnancy put their children at greater risk of developing psychotic symptoms as teenagers.

A Turkish student threw a shoe at IMF Chief Dominique Straniss Kahn in Istanbul ahead of key meetings on the economic crises.

A woman in Pasadena angered by her former husbands reluctant to return the jewellery, she asked for, the woman fried the seven gold fish they kept as pets and ate three of them.

The Kerala Thekkady boat tragedy that claimed 41 lives while 14 tourists from Tamil Nadu met a watery grave in Thekkady Lake.

Friday

A new survey discloses nearly half a million-road accidents are caused by women drivers applying make up behind the wheel including eating and map reading.

A 5 year old boy in Houston, Texas on a hunting trip in his fathers 5000 acre ranch shot dead a 12 foot 800 pound alligator with his junior size 410 gauge shotgun.

The 31st Summer Olympics will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016, when football legend Pele Heard the news he was reduced to tears.

More than 8000 children from different schools in Baroda sketched the world’s longest 4.2 km long painting on the issue of traffic.

Scientist at Tel Aviv University in Israel have developed what is literally a “Thermometer” for the earthknows as “optical soil’’ to asses the health of the planet

Saturday

Ismail a habitual gambler from Satgharra Village under Englishbazaar Police Station lost all his money to Mustafa Sherk Desperate he continued playing. Staked 18 year old his daughter. Mustafa beat again and walked away with the girl against her wish.
A 90 old man who was bedridden one and half years and he was taken care by his wife , died in Tiruvothiyur on learning about the sudden death of his wife.
A single 3 cents stamp belonging to the 1897 Qing Dynasty has been sold a world record amount of 332,000 dollars at an auction in Hong Kong, brought by a Beijing collector.
A Taiwan jail has refused to take in a 96-year-old convict sentenced to 3 months jail term that the convict could not look after himself behind bars.

Italian Police seized a pair of earrings worth 4000 Euros from Argentina Coach Diego Maradona who owes 36 million Euros to the Italian Tax department during his 7 years stay in Italy between 1984 and 1991.

Sunday

A research on 40,000 people for over 10 years says that intake of at least three cups of tea every day can reduce the risk of diabetes by almost half.
A 3 year old boy has become the youngest known crime suspect in Britain after being probed by the Police over alleged disorder and vandalism.
4 students of Thyagaraja College Vannarapettai were arrested for stabbing a fellow student in a moving MTC bus.
A 50 year old man in Narya Bilwa Village died after being stung by a swarm of honeybees while he was cremating his wife in a Madhya Pradesh Village. The bees were distributed after the flames from the funeral pyre enveloped their nests.
A Village in Gujarat prohibits liquor. Persons caught drinking; besides financial penalties has to spend 24 hours on a tree.

Monday

A 52 year old car crash victim in the Rocky Mountains survived for five days in the wildness by sucking rainwater from her hair.
A Japanese toddler who strayed into rail tracks got away with just scratches. She was trapped in the 20-inch gap between the train and the track.
Two Australian teenagers who found almost 87,000 in cash during a fishing trip promptly handed the entire amount to the Police.

A 13 year old Yugratna Srivastava from Lucknow will be the first Indian girl and the second in the world to address the United Nations Conference in New York in the august presents of over 100 world leaders including US President.
An Indian origin woman has been sentenced to 33 years in jail the longest jail term in Britain to a woman for murdering her two teenage daughters.

Tuesday

The grandson of Mao Zedong the revolutionary leader and founder of Communist China has been promoted to Major General in the Chinese Army.
An Olympic Gold Medial won by Australian swimming legend John Konnads in 1960 has been returned to him after it got stolen 25 years ago by a US Collector who bought it from a woman.
A pit for storing maize said to have been in use 1800 years ago has been found near Palani while a well was being dug.
A 32 year old unemployed man cut off his tongue and offered it to Lord Shiva at a Temple in Allahabad in the hope that his sacrifice would help him to get a job.
A drunken bus load of elite Australian Police officers were caught with their pants down when a motorists reported a Nudie Run at a traffic intersection.

Wednesday

A US man has discovered his long lost brother at the same work place after 35 years, after they were adopted by different families.
An Indonesian woman has given birth to a 8.7 kgs, 24.4 inches long baby boy, the heaviest new born ever recorded in the country.
Three students of the Amity University Lucknow were arrested allegedly for pouring petrol on a junior B.Tech (Arch) student and tried to set on fire after petty dispute.

Two Australians men were mauled and partly eaten by a pack of wild dogs near the outback town of Alice Springs.
A 68 year old Hungarian man lived like a slave in a stable for 3 years after his daughter sold him to a Romo family. The old man was fed once a day and worked for the family for no pay.

Thursday

Irked over delay in Judgment an accused threw a slipper at a Judge while hearing the case. The slipper missed the target. The case has been on for nine years.
Employees of Coal India Ltd will donate a day’s salary for purchasing. ÔThe Krail,Õ the house in South Africa where Mahatma Gandhi was living.

Mohammed VI King of Morocco flew his Aston Martin a ten year old car, one among the fleet of super cars owned by him, 1300 mile from Rabat to Briton to get it repaired.
An antique idol of Lord Buddha weighing 25kgs and valued at Rs.25 crores in the international market has been recovered by the Police in Uttar Pradesh.
55 year old Terry Herbert of Central England unearthed the biggest hoard of Anglo-Saxon 1350 items of Gold and Silver including 5kgs of Gold with the help of a metal detector.

Friday

NASA at United States thanks the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for enabling the discovery of water on the moon through Chandrayaan.
A rock engraving similar to a sign of the Indus Valley Civilization has been found at Edakkal Caves in Wayanad District Kerala.
A 14 year old teenager in Hong Kong makes a bomb using instructions from the internet, which exploded and injured his friend.
In yet another incident of racist attack on Indian Taxi driver was injured by a drunk star footballer after a altercation.
A chef in Heston Bluarenthal has apologized to diners whom fell ill after eating at his Fat Duck Restaurant invited them back for a free meal.