Amrutha Gayathri

Moderate amounts of dark chocolate may help improve health, by stimulating muscle response in a similar way to exercise, a new research suggests.

The former Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, who is expected to make an entry next year into the Republican race for 2012, is facing politically devastating allegations about her past. A new book, The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, authored by Joe McGinniss, alleges that Palin used cocaine and marijuana, had a one-night stand with NBA star Glen Rice and had a long term affair with one of her husband's former business associates.

Nobel Prize winning physicist Ivar Giaever resigned as a Fellow from the American Physical Society (APS) on Tuesday, condemning the group's official stand on global warming. In 2007, APS adopted an official statement on global warming, which said that the emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are changing the atmosphere in ways that affect the Earth's climate.

A Philadelphia woman who gave her son a kidney to save his life has been fired for exceeding her vacation time.

Scooby Doo is the healthiest of all the children's programs, says a survey released by the UK Department of Health. The survey consultants reached the conclusion after watching 200 hours of children's television and 20 most popular programs.

While some who question manmade climate change accuse environmentalists of harboring a covert socialist agenda, some advocates claim the label proudly.

One of the few Republicans of Hollywood, Clint Eastwood, doesn't really care about who marries who, and feels that controversy surrounding gay marriage is pointless. In the October issue of GQ Magazine, Oscar winning director and charismatic actor says that everybody should be given a chance to have the life they want.

The number of the poor in the U.S. has swelled to almost 1 in 6 people last year, attributed mostly to the soaring rate of unemployment, while the number of uninsured rose to 49.9 million, the highest in more than two decades.

Former U.S. Vice President, Al Gore, will undertake a 24-hour global multimedia event to convince deniers of humans' role in climate change, the link between climate change and extreme weather events and to drive action against global warming among the public.

A Florida woman has been charged with battery after she attacked an elderly man in a wheelchair, claiming to be a vampire, police said.

A supersized White Castle customer, having had enough of complaining to the management about the restaurant chain's smaller booths, is now taking the case of insensitivity to the federal court.

Mississippi voters will have the chance to define the term person to include all human beings from the moment of fertilization after the state Supreme Court validated a referendum.

Climate change advocate and former Vice President, Al Gore, will undertake a 24-hour global multimedia event to convince the climate change deniers of humans' role in climate change, the link between climate change and extreme weather events and to drive action against global warming among the public.

Boo, the 5-year-old Pomeranian, and an Internet sensation, is now featured in the book, Boo- The Life of The World's Cutest Dog. The book's publishers Chronicle Books describes him irresistibly adorable who is famous for his signature fluffy head and teddy bear-like persona.

The temple website, which has been taken down, had a post which said, Sex is a holy, sacred and divine healing force at the core (of) our beings. Once we embrace this force instead of deny it, we become successful, happy and powerful manifestors.

A female Malayan tiger killed her mate at Texas zoo who apparently was 'involved' with the attacker as well as another older tiger. Three-year-old Seri killed her 6-year-old mate Wzui around 4 pm on Thursday in an enclosure at El Paso Zoo, zoo spokesperson Karla Martinez said on Friday.

Speaking at the Worldwide Wildlife Fund (WWF), U.K., Prince Charles warned that the world is already on the verge of a sixth extinction event since humans are not willing to cut down on their consumption. He joked that being an endangered species himself he feel connected to the work of WWF. Prince of Wales was delivering his first speech as the new President of WWF-UK.

England, Scotland and Wales will lift a lifetime ban on blood donations by homosexual and bisexual men, but only those who have not had sex in the past 12 months will be able to donate.

Though Ron Paul seems to have contributed the most to last night's Republican presidential debate, Rick Perry is dominating the headlines for his supposedly inept remark identifying himself as modern day Galileo. Famous for his skepticism of climate change, the Texas Governor observed, The science is not settled on this (climate change). The idea that we would put Americans' economy at jeopardy based on scientific theory that's not settled yet to me is just nonsense. Just because yo...

The Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) published by the World Economic Forum, which ranks the world's most competitive economies, has pushed the U.S. down the list to a No. 5 spot. Escalating government debts and declining faith of the public in its administration were cited as the critical factors that contributed to the plunge of the country which was No. 1 in 2008 and No. 4 last year.

NASA's defunct Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite is expected to plunge on earth in an uncontrolled fall in late September or early October, officials said Wednesday. Though the 6.5 ton satellite is expected to burn up as it enters the earth's atmosphere, NASA doesn't rule out the possibility of solid pieces touching the ground.

Call it iKnife or ironic (Apple cutting apple), cooking videos using MacBook Air as a kitchen knife, to cut and peel a variety of vegetables and shrimp, have become a hit on the internet.

Ben & Jerry's latest icecream flavor may not exactly be something you would look forward to, had it not been a tribute to the famous skit on Saturday Night Live featuring Alec Baldwin. Schweddy Balls, a vanilla ice cream with a dash of rum, is named after the skit in which host Alec Baldwin, plays Pete Schweddy, owner of a holiday bakery called Season's Eatings. Molly Shannon and Ana Gasteyer play NPR radio hosts interviewing him for a culinary show, during which Schweddy says, ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. Images show the twists and turns of the paths made when the astronauts explored the lunar surface.

In an unprecedented court order, a 51-year-old Frenchman was ordered to pay 10,000 euros to compensate his wife for the lack of sex over 21 years of their marriage.

While economists and political pundits talk about the declining power of the U.S. on the world stage, people from across 15 countries named Americans the world's coolest nationality in an international poll conducted among 30,000 participants.

NASA's Earth Observatory has released a photo of the border between India and Pakistan taken from the International Space Station. The striking orange line depicting the hostile Asian border, however, is not a product of photoshop. This is the fenced and floodlit border zone between India and Pakistan. The fence is designed to discourage smuggling and arms trafficking and shows how divided the two nations are.

Evolutionary biologists have postulated several hypotheses about the role, if any, of the female orgasm in the reproductive process, for decades. One among the well known evolutionary theories, says that female orgasm is a by-product of ongoing selection on the male orgasm and ejaculation system. However, results of a survey conducted recently by researchers at the University of Queensland challenge the by-product theory of female orgasm.

Like the fictitious time bomb in the Hollywood blockbuster Speed, rigged to blow up the bus in which it was planted it slowed below 50 mph, some white dwarf stars when slowed down from their rapid spins may explode as supernova, astronomers say.