Posts Tagged ‘edge’

Karachi, Apr.8 (ANI): Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar sees Australia having an edge over them in the forthcoming One-Day International series in the UAE. Akhtar, who was included in the team for the April 22-May 7 series after he was declared fit following a series of extensive ... Full story

London, Apr 6 (ANI): American actress Lindsay Lohan has yet again failed to make an impression, with her new movie 'Labour Pains' going straight to cable TV. The comedy, which sees Lohan, 22, playing a secretary who fakes a pregnancy to avoid getting fired, did not get the go ahead for a cinema release. It will now ... Full story

Washington, April 2 (ANI): A scientist has identified an exoplanet that went undetected in Hubble images taken in 1998. The scientist, David Lafreniere of the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, detected the planet that was hidden in Hubble images taken with the telescope's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) in 1998. The planet, estimated to be at least seven times Jupiter's mass, was originally discovered in ... Full story

New Delhi, Mar 31 (ANI/Business Wire India): According to ComScore, the Global Internet Information Provider, Naukri.com, garnered a traffic share of 61 per cent in February '09, the highest ever. Naukri.com is leading in unique visitors, total page views and time spent on the site, beating its competitors by considerable margins. Monster.com and Timesjobs.com had a traffic share of 27 per cent and 8 per ... Full story

Napier, Mar.29 (ANI): India's much vaunted batting machinery came to its rescue on Sunday, putting up 252 for the loss of two wickets in the second innings after being asked to follow on by New Zealand on Saturday. India is now just 62 runs away from overtaking the Kiwi first innings total of 619 for nine declared, and have batters Gautam Gambhir (102 not out), Rahul ... Full story

Cape Town, Mar.28 (ANI): Former Proteas medium pacer Charl Langeveldt has joined the Indian Premier League (IPL). According to Sports24, Langeveldt has struck a deal with the Kolkata Knight Riders after his county team Derbyshire 'reluctantly' set him free to participate in the five week cricket extravaganza starting from April 18. "I am pleased he has the opportunity to play alongside the world's best in the ... Full story

Tokyo, March 28 (ANI): The discovery of fragments of an iron tool in Turkey has pushed back the start of the Iron Age by several centuries, which may lead to the history of iron tool production being re-written. According to a report in the Asahi Shimbun, the fragments were found at Kaman-Kalehoyuk, about 100 kilometers southeast of Ankara, by researchers of the Middle Eastern Culture Center ... Full story

London, Mar 28 (ANI): King of Pop Michael Jackson will move into a 28-bedroom mansion next to 'haunted caves' during his 50-concert stint in London this summer, it has emerged. The 50-year-old singer has dished out 1million pounds to rent the Kent mansion situated on the edge of an ancient 22-mile maze of spooky passageways. The area has been under constant limelight of ghostly sightings, which were ... Full story

Washington, Mar 26 (ANI): By mapping the entire genome of a bacterium that infects a close relative of the fruit fly, scientists at Uppsala University have found that gene exchange is widespread among this sex-manipulating bacteria. The finding paves the way for using sex-manipulating bacteria as environmentally friendly pesticides against harmful ... Full story

New Delhi, Mar 18 (ANI/Business Wire India): "In today's world - convergence is the keyword. All facets of communication have converged digitally into the mobile handset," said Siddhartha Behura, Secretary, Department of Telecommunications, Govt of India, Chief Guest at the inauguration of the 17th Convergence India 2009, which ... Full story

London, March 18 (ANI): Four Spanish students have managed to take stunning pictures of space from 20-miles above Earth, using only a 56 pounds camera and latex balloon. According to a report in the Telegraph, taking atmospheric readings and photographs 20 miles above the ground, the Meteotek team of IES La Bisbal School in Catalonia, Spain, completed their incredible experiment at the end of February this ... Full story

Washington, Mar 18 (ANI): When it comes to making big in the business world, being honest, kind and respectful gives an individual a real competitive advantage over his/her peers, according to a new study. Researchers at North Carolina State University have shown that project managers can get much better performance from their team members by treating them with honesty, kindness, and respect. Another study has shown that ... Full story

Washington, March 18 (ANI): The Hubble Space Telescope has taken a photo of four moons of Saturn passing in front of their parent planet, in a rare moon transit. In this view, the giant orange moon Titan casts a large shadow onto Saturn's north polar hood. Below Titan, near the ring plane and to the left is ... Full story

London, March 15 (ANI): Cancer-stricken Jade Goody has just few hours to live now, according to her pals. The British reality TV star has been in tremendous pain after cervical cancer spread to her entire body. "It IS now a matter of hours, she has deteriorated dramatically overnight. Sadly she is very close to the end," News of the World ... Full story

New Delhi, Mar 12 (ANI): Hollywood actress Sienna Miller will soon be turned into a doll identical to her 'G.I Joe: Rise of the Cobra' character Baroness. "I don't think anyone, anywhere would be playing with them if they were for 'The Edge of Love' but 'G.I. Joe' is a whole new experience," she said. "I'm ... Full story

Islamabad, Mar.11 (ANI): Fears of return of military rule or a change of regime in Pakistan gained momentum on Wednesday after a report in Fox News indicated a source as telling it that President Asif Ali Zardari, who is in Tehran for a regional economic conference and is ... Full story

London, March 10 (ANI): A team of archaeologists has claimed to have unearthed the remains of Shakespeare's first theatre in London, England. According to a report by BBC News, a team from the Museum of London found the remains of the theatre in Shoreditch last summer. In 1576, ... Full story

London, Mar 09 (ANI): Rock band U2 have planned a 100-date stadium tour, which would continue for the next 18 months, in a bid to promote their new album 'No Line On The Horizon'. The band will kick off the gargantuan tour in Barcelona on June 30, before heading to America in September, reports Billboard. The ... Full story

Washington, Mar 5 (ANI): A report by top US political figures and experts released on Wednesday in Washington has claimed that Israel is seriously considering unilateral military action against Iran to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons. The Jerusalem Post quoted the report as saying that Israel's time frame for action is growing shorter, not only because of Iranian advances, but because Teheran might soon acquire ... Full story

Washington, March 5 (ANI): Fossil handprints of a meat-eating birdlike dinosaur, that dates back to 200 million years, show that it plopped down on the edge of a lake and rested its arms, palms slightly facing inward, in an almost yoga-like pose. The handprints of this "crouching dinosaur", discovered in 2004 in St. George, Utah, are the first known prints made by a meat-eating dinosaur's front ... Full story