NEW YORK: Obama’s daughter Sasha Obama has a look like. Ariel Binns is cute, smart, outgoing and looks remarkably like first daughter Sasha Obama.
The similarity has not gone unnoticed by the fashion industry. Harper’s Bazaar magazine cast the 6-year-old Brooklyn, New York, first-grader with model Tyra Banks in a photo spread showing an African-American family [...]
The FDA has warned against eating raw plum, round or Roma red tomatoes unless they are from certain states or abroad.
Supermarkets and restaurants in the US have stopped selling certain types of tomatoes because of salmonella fears.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is still searching for the source of an outbreak that [...]
Federal regulators have cleared the way for the first human trials of human embryonic stem-cell research, authorizing researchers to test whether the cells are safe to use in spinal injury patients, the company behind the trials announced Friday.
The tests could begin by summer, said Dr. Thomas Okarma, president and CEO of the Geron Corporation. The [...]
ATLANTA: The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that a criminal investigation has begun into the Georgia plant linked to a salmonella outbreak.
Stephen Sundlof, director of the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, told reporters that the agency’s office of criminal investigation will work through the Department of Justice to develop a case [...]
Jewellery marchent has another way to hit jackpot. They conveniently adds another rare metal like Iridium and Ruthenium to gold to boost their profit. As a consequence the metal fails all purity checks.
It’s an alchemist’s dream, and the practice is becoming increasingly commonplace if you go by the stocks of the ‘duplicate’ metals at even [...]
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 is nearing completion. Currently 72% of the browser market is taken by IE and hence there will be lots of curiosity on the features of the new version. Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8), the long-awaited successor to IE 7, is about to turn a lot of heads, as it comes lots [...]
Co-produced by Pakistani producers Zaid Aziz and Henna Rai of Karachi production firm Vox Vision and Leicester-based Sum Films respectively, the film will be bilingual – made both in English and Urdu.
Tentatively titled “Benazir Bhutto: The Movie”, it will be shot at various locations in Pakistan, the US, Britain and Dubai, where Bhutto spent [...]
San Fransisco: US technology firm NVIDIA rolled out high-performance “personal supercomputers” that let desktop workstations handle mind-boggling tasks once far beyond their capabilities. Computers built with innovative NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) are capable of handling calculations typically relegated to expensive supercomputing “clusters”, a technology breakthrough the company says could soon bring lightning speeds to [...]
WASHINGTON: Danny Boyle’s acclaimed film “Slumdog Millionaire” has taken home two more major US film industry awards over the weekend, winning the top prizes from both the Screen Actors Guild and the Producers Guild of America.
Bollywood stars Anil Kapoor and Irfaan Khan, British Indian Actor Dev Patel, and newcomer Freida Pinto received the overall cast [...]
WASHINGTON: Greeting India on the occasion of the country’s 60th Republic Day, US President Barack Obama said Indians have no better friend and partner than the people of the United States.
“As Indian people celebrate Republic Day, they should know that they have no better friend and partner than the people of the United States,” Obama [...]
