New Delhi: You put it in your tea, your coffee, in anything that you want sweetened – yes, we are talking about sugar. But it’s now time to get off your sweet dream, because that leftover New Year delight could act as a gateway drug. In a massive study done by Princeton University, for four weeks white rats were denied food for 12 hours a day and then given concentrated sugar for the remaining 12…
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Washington: US cities are vulnerable to an attack like the gun-and-grenade assault that terrorised Mumbai for three days and killed 179 people, White House Homeland Security Adviser, Ken Wainstein said on Wednesday. Wainstein told a Washington think tank the Mumbai attacks in November showed the effectiveness of a low-technology coordinated assault on an open city. “You can envision that happening in any American city, and it’s chilling when you think about it,” Wainstein told policy-makers…
At least three rockets fired from Lebanon strike northern Israel, wounding two people, Israeli police and emergency medical services say. The attacks come as Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, aimed at halting rocket fire from the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory to the south, enters a 13th day
China has issued an alert against bird flu following the death of a 19-year-old woman from the disease. The woman died after she came into contact with poultry in a market in central Hebei province. Since the outbreak of bird flu in 2003, 21 people in China have died. Worldwide, 247 people have died. But this is China’s first bird flu death in almost a year, and the authorities here have reacted by declaring a…