Washington, May 12 (ANI): NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis, with its seven-member crew, has launched on the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
Atlantis’ 11-day mission will include five spacewalks to refurbish Hubble with state-of-the-art science instruments designed to improve the telescope’s discovery capabilities by up to 70 times while extending its lifetime through at least […]

Washington, May 12 (DPA) John Hamaski tried a lot of things to lose weight but nothing really worked. The 38-year-old lawyer from San Francisco began several diets and enlisted in a gym. “It didn’t work, I just stayed fat.” Hamaski, who is about five feet tall and weighs 187 pounds, suffered from obesity.

Washington, May 12 (DPA) The space shuttle Atlantis blasted off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida Monday on a mission to repair the ageing Hubble Space Telescope.

The fifth and last mission to repair Hubble launched at 2:01 p.m. (1801 GMT).

Kolkata, May 11 (IANS) West Bengal’s ruling Left Front (LF) patriarch Jyoti Basu is unlikely to cast his vote in this Lok Sabha election because of frail health.

“Perhaps this time, Basu will not be able to exercise his franchise in the general election because of his health,” the 95-year-old Basu’s personal assistant Joykrishna Ghosh told IANS.

Panaji, May 11 (IANS) An Indian Army major was arrested here Monday for allegedly taking obscene photographs of a woman and attempting to blackmail her, police said.

The officer, identified as Major Tarun Singh, 27, is posted at Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir and is in Goa on a holiday, Inspector Nolasco Raposo told reporters, adding he was staying in a hotel adjacent to a room occupied by a Mumbai-based family, which included the complainant.

London, May 11 (ANI): Apple’s iPods and iPhones are the latest equipment that the US army is using to carry out operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The easy-to-use devices have been embraced by the military because they can safely carry secure software and are far cheaper than manufacturing a version specifically for the army.
Capable of holding […]

Sydney, May 11 (ANI): An Australian expert is concerned that with the advent of the Internet, children, especially girls, are becoming even meaner while bullying other girls online.

London, May 11 (ANI): Chelsea striker Didier Drogba’s Champions League tantrum has inspired a hit Internet game.
As the wild-eyed virtual character ‘Didier DrogBaby’, players can hit a moving target modelled on bald ref Tom Henning Ovrebo.
Chelsea’s Drogba, 31, was sporting a pair of flip flops as he stormed onto the Stamford Bridge pitch to […]