The Madras High Court has upheld a Transport Commissioner's circular directing the licensing authorities to take into account certain regulations while granting licences for establishing dri...

A sessions court here on Thursday denied bail to Poovarasi (26) of Thiruvalam in Vellore District, who has been arrested in connection with a case relating to the murder of a three-year-old child.

Claire McCaskill, a senator from Missouri, believes that between 4,900 and 6,600 graves may be unmarked or mislabeled on cemetery maps. Claire McCaskill is chairwoman of an oversight panel on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Reform Committee.

A new study of the physics of wrinkles – on our clothes or skin – helps iron out some of the uncertainty.

Research shows that many areas of today's oceans have conditions that parallel those of 250 million years ago, when 95 percent of marine species quickly died out.

Depending on credit cards for emergencies can land you deep into debt quickly. Putting just a little bit away each month instead could save you from financial crisis.

In Canada, Christianity is literally going to the dogs. Reverend Marguerite Rea of St. Peter's Anglican Church in Toronto sparked outrage last week after administering holy communion to Donald Keith, 56, and his four-year-old German Shepherd mix, Trapper. "The whole thing was all very innocent," Keith told the Toronto Star, adding that it made people "smile." But some parishioners and church officials have condemned the act as "misguided" and "shocking," and Rev. Rea has since apologized. Do dogs deserve to be included in sacred rituals?

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The mother of an Ontario teen stranded in Cuba for months after he was involved in a traffic accident says the family has struck a deal with Cuban authorities for his safe return.

About 150 people have been killed by flashfloods and bad weather in Pakistan in the last week.

Britain's Phillips Idowu has added European gold to his ever-increasing medal collection with a superb performance in Barcelona.

Mark Hughes has officially been appointed as manager of Fulham on a two-year contract.

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A new generation of the Kindle e-reader was released Thursday, promising a longer battery life, increased storage and a lower price tag.

A House Ethics subcommittee met to announce and discuss charges against Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY). The charges, widely reported in the press as focusing on tax and financial disclosure violations, are the result of a nearly two-year investigation. If the subcommittee decides to move forward with the charges, the panel would likely hold a trial in September unless a settlement is reached before then.
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A procedure intended to ease the job of plugging the blown-out Gulf of Mexico well for good could start as early as the weekend, the U.S. government's point man for the spill response says.

B.C.'s minister for children and family development has permanently ended all clinical sex tests on young offenders, following news that one of the contractors has been charged with a sexual offence.

A Defence Department spokesperson confirms computers at the department's research agency were used to alter a Wikipedia site on the Joint Strike Fighter jet.

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Chelsea Clinton, her family, and other VIPs attending the wedding will prompt the FAA to declare a no-fly zone 90 minutes north of New York City.

Kindle, according to some experts, has revolutionized the world of literature. Amazon is scheduled to release a second version of the Kindle next month. Meanwhile, an e-book price war has broken out.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Senate Republicans voiced objections on Thursday to the new START nuclear arms treaty with Russia, raising concerns that could delay efforts to hand President Barack Obama a foreign policy victory ahead of the November elections.

US and Afghan officials say release of thousands of documents has put lives at risk.

The Fiesta is currently the best-selling car in the old country, taking on all comers with a lively mix of style and a premium feel that's priced to sell

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The clashes between Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks in early June displaced at least 300,000 people within Kyrgyzstan, sending many fleeing to neighbouring Uzbekistan.

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Jim Tate runs a computer and software store in Oklahoma City called Computer Nerdz. He said the software the school district installed in those laptops is a program that can be activated from a remote site in the event of a loss or theft.

"The software was designed to help the school district retrieve the laptop in the event that it was stolen from the student," Tate said.

But in Robbin's and Hassan's cases, the laptops were inside their homes and the web cams continued taking snap shots and screen grabs.

"I can understand why the parents would be absolutely outraged," said Jim Tate with Computer Nerdz.

Six gay couples in Hawaii are filing a lawsuit Thursday asking for the same rights as married couples, three weeks after Gov. Linda Lingle vetoed a same-sex civil unions measure.

The lawsuit doesn't seek the titles of "marriage" or "civil unions" for gay partners. Instead, it requests that the court system extend them the benefits and responsibilities of marriage based on the Hawaii Constitution's prohibition against sex discrimination.

Those who understand the exploitative nature of big government suspected that the U.S. response to the 9/11 attacks had little to do with the security of the American people and much to do with power and money. Still, the magnitude of the scam, as revealed by the Washington Post last week, is astonishing.

Naturally, the politicians justify the growth in intelligence operations on national security grounds. To make sure such attacks never happen again, they said, new powers, agencies, personnel, and facilities were imperative.

Now the truth is out: the post–9/11 activity has been an obscene feeding frenzy at the public trough. Any resemblance to efforts at keeping Americans safe is strictly coincidental.

In his bible for counterinsurgency, Field Manuel 3-24, General David Petraeus argues, “The cornerstone of any COIN effort is establishing security for the civilian population.” As one village elder who attended the Holbrooke meeting—incognito for fear of being recognized by the Taliban—told Green, “There is no security in Marjah.”

Nor in much of the rest of the country. The latest U.S. assessment found five out of 116 areas “secure,” and in 89 of the areas the government was “non-existent, dysfunctional or unproductive.”

I’ve been experiencing a strong sense of deju vu ever since Gardiner Harris’ story in The New York Times earlier this month that GlaxoSmithKline hid negative findings about a bestselling drug and misrepresented data in a clinical trial of the drug. This time, the drug is Avandia for diabetes, and there is evidence [...]

On Ninth Avenue in Manhattan, something has got to give. From the Apple Store at Gansevoort Plaza to the main post office by the Lincoln Tunnel, we should read a story of low-carbon progress. See: one of the tidiest street designs in America buffers bicycle riders from drivers. Look: a nubby-pavement plaza hosts concerts. Look [...]

A dog named Trapper has taken communion at St. Peter’s Church in downtown Toronto, sending the notoriously orthodox Canadian Anglican community reeling and leaving many questions unanswered, many articles of faith in doubt. The whole sordid affair started out quite innocently, during the G20 summit, with a surly Toronto cop hustling Trapper and his human friend [...]

Republican objections blocked progress on a small-business bill in the Senate Thursday, leaving the measure’s future in doubt.

An effort by Majority Leader Harry Reid , D-Nev., to limit debate on a substitute amendment to the bill fell short of the 60 votes needed as all 41 Republicans united against it.

The vote diminished but did not entirely extinguish prospects for passage of the bill before the August recess. Democrats and President Obama continue to urge the Senate to act quickly.

Republicans complained that they were not given a fair chance to get votes on amendments. Democrats on Wednesday night had offered them votes on three amendments, but Minority Leader Mitch McConnell , R-Ky., wanted to consider eight amendments, including votes on the estate tax, nuclear-plant loan guarantees and border security.

“My frustration is pretty high,” Reid said after further talks with McConnell failed to produce a deal.

McConnell insisted the bill was not dead. “We’re getting closer,” he said of his negotiations with Reid. “There’s a chance of significant progress very soon.”

Reid remained skeptical. “I don’t think they want an agreement. We agreed to everything they wanted,” he said.

The measure pending before the Senate would create a $30 billion small business lending fund, extend $12 billion in tax breaks and enhance federal programs designed to help small businesses.

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More than 300 scientists from around the world, including several Canadians, hope to blunt some growing skepticism about climate change with a new report that says global warming is a fact and the Earth is hotter than ever.

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Two colonies of age-old and endangered tadpole shrimps discovered alive and well near Solway coast

A field near Gretna in Dumfriesshire might not be an obvious place to find the world's oldest living creatures, but a team of scientists has done just that.

Two colonies of a prehistoric shrimp that evolved when the dinosaurs ruled the Earth have been found alive and well in the Caerlaverock nature reserve on the Solway coast.

The discovery has led experts to think there could be more of the little crustaceans, which are listed as endangered species, elsewhere in the area.

The ancient creatures, known as Triops cancriformis or tadpole shrimps, are thought to have the oldest pedigree of any living animal. Fossil evidence suggests they have hardly changed in the more than 200m years that they have been around.

Wild tadpole shrimps can grow to more than 10cm long and are remarkable in surviving three major extinctions in the Earth's history. The shrimps have an extraordinary lifecycle. They live in temporary pools of water in which they lay eggs. When the pools dry out, the adults die off, but their eggs remain dormant until the pools fill up again.

Researchers at Glasgow University discovered the rare shrimps after collecting samples of mud, which were dried out and then made wet again before being placed in glass tanks. A fortnight later Elaine Benzies, a research student, noticed a tadpole shrimp swimming around in one of the aquariums. "I hadn't expected to find it and was just going in to check on the heat and lights. It was great to see everyone in the lab gathering round and peering into the tank to look at this ancient survivor from the past," she said.

Until recently, researchers believed the ancient shrimps lived only in a single pond in the New Forest in Hampshire. Six years ago, Larry Griffin, a scientist at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, discovered what appeared to be an isolated colony of the creatures in a pool at Caerlaverock.

"At the time it seemed that the Caerlaverock colony was a vulnerable historic outlier," he said. "But now that we know how this curious creature survives, we have realised that there's a good chance there are more populations out there.

"Triops matures rapidly and produces hundreds of eggs in just a couple of weeks. The pond they live in may dry out, but the eggs can survive in the mud for many years. Although in the UK they are all females, they have both male and female reproductive parts, so just one egg needs to survive to regenerate a whole population."

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Just how often, exactly, are these things supposed to happen? Federal officials are fighting to keep an oil spill in the Kalamazoo River from reaching Lake Michigan. The spill comes from a leaking pipeline, which may have dumped one million gallons of...

Arizona filed an appeal contesting a federal judge's order that put most of the state's immigration law on hold.

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