Washington, Aug. 29: Mothers who don’t breastfeed their babies are more at risk of developing type-2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease, later in life than mothers who did.

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London, Aug. 29: A seven year old maths prodigy advises the British government on the country’s finances, a media report said on Sunday.

“Oscar Selby, who last week got an A* at less than half the ag

Two women died of swine flu in Orissa, taking the total number of deaths due to the influenza to 19 in the state since July, an official said on Monday.

The women died on Sunday at the Veer Surendra

Former Baywatch actress Pamela Anderson has been granted a restraining order against an Internet design company following a legal battle over her official website.

The minister of state for science and technology, Mr Prithviraj Chavan, moved the civil nuclear liability bill in the Rajya Sabha on Monday after the Lok Sabha passed the legislation last week.

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A British civil servant who fell off his swivel chair and was badly disabled is suing his government department for £300,000.

Gian-Paul De Vito-Tracey, 39, will claim that he was left 80 per cent dis

Five security personnel were killed in a gunfight with Maoists in a forested area of Chhattisgarh's restive Bastar region early on Sunday, police said.

"Maoists ambushed a police patrolling party dra

Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra's father, Mr A.S. Bindra, has been asked by the high court here to pay long-pending dues amounting to Rs 27.25 crore to Asset Reconstruction India within the next

Ten Venezuelan soldiers have died when their helicopter crashed in southwestern part of the country, an official said.

The accident occurred when the Russian-made MI-17 was taking off after leaving a

Scientists in China have identified a new species of dinosaur in a mountainous region in Shandong province, experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said.

Though fossils of the dinosaur wer