A team of researchers assessing the risks of electronic cigarettes is counting the puffs taken by volunteer “vapers.” Another will comb Facebook for posts on how people are tinkering with e-cigarettes to make the devices deliver extra nicotine. A third is building a virtual Continue Reading
Month: July 2014
A painting believed to be a 1925 work by French artist Henri Matisse worth around $3 million was returned to Venezuela from the United States on Monday more than a decade after it was stolen from a museum in Caracas, Venezuela’s government said. The “Odalisque in Red Pants” Continue Reading
It was reported that an Israeli aircraft attacked 10 sites that was being used by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Sunday . The Israeli military said that it was a response to the persistent rocket strikes from the enclave. Among the targets of the air strikes, there were rocket Continue Reading
Music is something which always lightens the hearts. For the past three nights, U.S. jazzman and a man who has served as a United Nations goodwill ambassador, Wynton Marsalis allowed his band and the guests to shine in performances from the Pakistani sitar jazz to the reflections on the 50’s Continue Reading
The only thing we may love about our smartphones are the so many endless applications that we can download for our everyday uses, whether it’s for work, fun, or just time pass. Now the next addition to the collections of applications is coming online which is a stress test according to Continue Reading
Recently the “X-Men” director Bryan Singer was slapped on with a second sex abuse lawsuit which had been filed before the release of his movie “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” which Singer is asking to have dismissed. The lawsuit which was filed by an anonymous British man accused the filmmaker Continue Reading
It has been reported that about 46 Indian nurses are stranded in the militant controlled city of Tikrit, the hometown of the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Iraq. They have been moved “against their will” to another location and are presently in ISIS captivity. According to foreign Continue Reading
The chaos which was created by an Australian firecracker continued in brutal fashion by Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov as he annihilated defending Wimbledon champion Andy Murray. With the dust still settling on 19-year-old Nick Kyrgios’s fourth-round demolition of world No.1 Rafael Nadal, Continue Reading
When a Facebook post suggested that the finance minister might be pondering less things than the threat of the tough measures in the Indian government’s first budget next week, anger was stirred amongs many. Now what was the post by Arun Jaitley? The post stated “this day is celebrated to Continue Reading
Friends, family and fans of actress and activist Ruby Dee, who died last month at the age of 91, will honour her life and legacy at a memorial service in New York in September, a family spokeswoman said on Tuesday. The friends, family and fan of the actress and activist Ruby Dee, who had died Continue Reading