London, July 29 (IANS) Britain's civil service union has opposed plans to outsource more than 100 finance and IT British Council jobs to India, fearing it could set a precedent in...More

Baghdad/Tehran, July 29 (DPA) Eight people have been killed and more than 455 injured in clashes between Iraqi security forces and an armed Iranian rebel group in northwesten Iraq...More

Washington, July 29 (IANS) A new computer game prototype combines work and play to help solve a fundamental problem underlying many hardware design tasks. Called FunSAT, it could ...More

Karachi, July 29 (IANS) Pakistan's star all-rounder Shahid Afridi was Wednesday named captain for its Twenty20 International match against Sri Lanka in Colombo, August 12. ...More

Luebbenow (Germany), July 29 (DPA) A 13-year old girl, believed to have been imprisoned for up to nine years, was rescued from her parents' house in the eastern German town of Lue...More

Washington, July 29 (IANS) Researchers have found a way to directly convert spermatogonial stem cells, precursors of sperm cells, into tissues of the prostate, skin and uterus. ...More

Karachi, July 29 (IANS) The menace of match-fixing reared its ugly head again Wednesday with a media report claiming that Pakistani cricketers were approached by bookmakers in Col...More

Kathmandu, July 29 (IANS) The battle over the use of Hindi for official work, that has pitted southern Nepal against the rest of the country, escalated Wednesday with embattled Vi...More

Nanning (China), July 29 (Xinhua) Four people died and 34 were injured after a train derailed in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region early Wednesday, authorities said. ...More

Washington, July 29 (IANS) A lack of sunlight seems to eclipse brain power in depressed people, according to the latest research. Researchers used weathe...More

London, July 29 (IANS) Troubled British singer Amy Winehouse is installing a recording studio here. All the equipment she used in her Caribbean studio is...More

Washington, July 29 (IANS) An analysis of rare genetic disorders in which children lack some genes from one parent shows that maternal and paternal genes engage in a subtle tug-of...More

Washington, July 29 (IANS) Smokeless tobacco products, as used in Europe and North America, do not seem to increase cancer risk, according to the latest research. ...More

London, July 29 (IANS) Britain's reigning monarch has her first Sikh bodyguards, a newspaper reported. Queen Elizabeth II will be guarded by Signaler Sim...More

Toronto, July 29 (IANS) Botanists have identified a pair of genes which can help catalogue plants worldwide, using a technique known as DNA bar coding. '...More