Amrutha Gayathri

A chemistry student, suspected of planning a gas attack against protesters opposing a visit by Pope Benedict XVI, has been arrested by the Spanish police.

A Philadelphia man has been murdered after his ex-girlfriend, and the mother of his child, posted a note on Facebook promising $1000 for killing him.

Authorities found the remains of the 3-year-old Missouri girl Breeann Rodriguez, who went missing for more than a week, on Tuesday, near a series of floodway ditches about eight miles southeast of the girl's family's home in Senath. A suspect from the girl's neighborhood Shawn Morgan, who was arrested on Saturday, has confessed that he had suffocated the child with a plastic bag before dumping her body in the ditch.

Native New Yorker's "Battle of the Bone", Finale Chicken Wing Eating Contest will be held from noon to 4 pm on Aug. 20. The sports-themed family restaurant franchise announced the finale of the 2011 contest, in which contestants attempt to top each other by eating the restaurant's famed chicken wings.

Jodie Foster, Academy Award winning actor, producer and director, was among 2,557 donors helping SETI (Search for extraterrestrial intelligence -- collective name for a number of activities people undertake to search for intelligent extraterrestrial life) in its lookout for alien radio signal from outer space.

The suspicious death of the 12-year-old New Hampshire girl Celina Cass remains a mystery to the investigators as they haven't been able to follow a potential lead in finding out what exactly happened to her on the night she went missing

Samsung's Galaxy products are increasingly disappearing from store shelves in Europe and Australia thanks to an intellectual property fight with Apple, say recent reports.

Several thermal anomalies were observed in satellite views of Alaska's Cleveland volcano over the past 24 hours, but the Alaska Volcano Observatory said Sunday it had received no additional information or observations about activity.

Indonesian government's volcanologists have raised the alert level for Mount Soputan in North Sulawesi from Level II to III.

NASA released an image of beginning stage of colliding galaxies, VV 340, also known as Arp 302. The edge-on galaxy near the top of the image is VV 340 North and the face-on galaxy at the bottom of the image is VV 340 South. Millions of years later these two spirals will merge -- much like the Milky Way and Andromeda will likely do billions of years from now. VV 340 is located about 450 million light years from Earth.

A prehistoric body believed to be that of a woman was discovered in the bog near Portlaoise, of County Laois in the midlands of Ireland on Wednesday. While the head and torso of the body, which could be 3000 years old, had decomposed, the legs survived due to the high chemical content in the peat bog.

Global Warming and Climate Change are phenomena that broke the bonds of scientific circles to be a matter of debate between 'believers' and 'skeptics.' Countless studies validating and denying global warming have seen the light of the day providing fodder for more debates, some of which somewhat bitter. A couple of days back reports of Al Gore's use of curse words against skeptics, during a heated rant, was doing the rounds on the Internet. The Nobel Peace Prize winner called thos...

A devastation of conifer forests about 250 million years ago was caused by tree-killing fungi whose growth was triggered by global climate change, says a University of California, Berkeley, study that warns it could happen again.

"Twilight" movie series actor Kiowa Gordon was arrested in Mesa, a city in Maricopa County in Arizona, on an outstanding warrant for not appearing in the Mesa court after being charged for driving under the influence of drugs.

The UK government's National Archives today released 34 UFO files of 9,000 pages from the Ministry of Defence containing top secret memos in which UFOs were discussed, along with sightings and incidents reported by members of the public, during the period 1985-2007.

The Cleveland volcano, located in the Alaskan island of Chuginadak, has been erupting without posing threat to life in the surrounding area. According to an AP report the volcano is undergoing slow eruption with no accompanying explosion and doesn't generate ash clouds.

The newly discovered tribes from Brazil's Amazon Rainforest, who were about 200 in number, has been reported missing by Survival International. Discovery of these uncontacted Indians, in February this year sensationalized internet after Survival International and FUNAI, National Indian Foundation of Brazil released aerial photographs and footage of the tribe.

Why don't humans give up hopes on spotting intelligent extra-terrestrial life? Because we haven't got any categorical evidence which suggests that alien life is non-existent and until proven otherwise extra-terrestrials could exist. Though probability of intelligent alien life is an intensely debated topic, SETI (Search for extraterrestrial intelligence- collective name for a number of activities people undertake to search for intelligent extraterrestrial life) is in the lookout for an ali...

The International Space Station will be operational until 2020s as NASA, Roscosmos, and partners in Japan, Europe, and Canada have reached consensus regarding the matter. "The international partners have been discussing extending the mission through 2028. At this point, there's no reason we wouldn't do that, said NASA spokesperson Joshua Buck.

Photographer Terry Richardson is planning a November release of Lady Gaga's coffee-table book unofficially called Gaga Book which will feature over 350 photos of the singer taken over the course of 10 months.

According to the legends made familiar by Harry Potter series, the Cloak of Invisibility has the power to shield the wearer from being seen by Death. It is a true invisibility cloak, in the sense of being able to completely shield the wearer from sight, and cannot be worn out by time or spells.

Antimatter in Earth's magnetosphere, which was only a theoretical possibility so far, has been proved to be present in the form of a significant flux of antiprotons, generated by nuclear interactions of energetic cosmic rays with the terrestrial atmosphere. The trapped antiproton energy spectrum in the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) region has been measured by the PAMELA experiment for the kinetic energy range 60-750 MeV.

Solar storms or the current of charged particles from the sun, in the event of hitting earth, could potentially wreak havoc on the planet causing power outages, scrambled GPS and communications failure. It could leave us in the dark for months together by generating overlapping electrical currents in Earth's magnetosphere.

China's commentary which came after credit rating agency Standard & Poor downgraded U.S credit rating from a top-notch AAA to AA+, harshly criticized U.S for its "debt-addiction" and short-sightedness of politicians.

The United States wouldn't enjoy "risk-free" top AAA credit rating any longer. Standard & Poor's decision, being questioned by many including the White House, to downgrade AAA rating to AA+ was based on an analysis which blew up U.S. deficits by $2 trillion.

It will be an understatement to say consumers are being constantly fooled by packaged food manufacturers. Though many read the ingredients list and calorific content printed on the package, people tend to overlook unpronounceable chemicals' names and be content if there is relatively less sugar and calories. But more often than not, an unpronounceable name on a food package is your short cut to ailments including mood swings, diabetes, cancers, heart diseases, hormone imbalances and neurologi...

Vampire bats' ability to sink their teeth into prey's body without missing the vein and feed on rich blood has provided fodder for a number of myths. Scientists say it is the bats' highly evolved noses that guided them in the dark. But how the nose helped in spotting blood remained a mystery.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son Khamis Gaddafi was among 32 people killed in a NATO airstrike on the western city of Zlitan, a spokesperson for Libyan rebels claimed.

Humanity has come to terms with being alone in the wilderness of the universe with every single speculation on spotting intelligent extra terrestrial life yielding no result. Aliens thus exist only in our imagination fueled by colorful fictitious characters.