sangeeta mukherjee

Commercial deep sea fishing should be banned, urged an international team of marine scientists.

Eddie Murphy will host the Oscar, said producers Brett Ratner and Don Mischer yesterday. With the inclusion of the actor and comedian as host, the 84th annual Academy Awards strive to revive their waning brands.

Shayne Riggleman, a 22-year-old from West Virginia, whose murder spree took lives of 5 people, including a pregnant woman, killed himself in Kentucky on Monday while being chased by the police, said the state police in Uniontown.

The hacker who stole more than 500 SSL certificates from a Dutch certificate authority and compromised Facebook, Google and Skype, as well as MI6 and CIA Web sites, has claimed another attack on the Dutch.

Finally the biologists can heave a sigh of relief as the century-old mystery relating to birds' three different digits is finally resolved, claimed the scientists of Yale University on Sunday.

Honda Motor Co. is recalling 962,000 Fit, CR-V Crossover and Fit Aria vehicles worldwide because of defects in power windows and computer systems.

After promoting her film, W.E., at the Venice Film Festival, Madonna confirmed she is back with her new album which she plans to launch in spring 2012.

It is the end of an era with Jerry Lewis, the comedy legend, finally retiring from the MDA show this year after successfully hosting it for 45 years.

Tropical Storm Lee hammered the Gulf Coast with torrential rainfall and tidal surges this weekend and the spinoff tornado headed to the northeast from south Louisiana to Mississippi. It pounded almost 14 inches of rain in New Orleans swamping the coastlines and flooding at least 11 southern parishes including Barataria, Acadia, Jefferson, Plaquemines, Livingston, St. John and St. Tammany, said the officials.

The U.S. President, Barack Obama, has shelved the controversial plan to tighten air-quality rule on Friday, said the officials.

Coffee lovers believe a cup of hot coffee kick-starts their day but how far is that true? A recent study done in the UK shows that the hit you get from your cup of coffee is all in your mind and the same lift can be given by a decaf.

In a fiery message broadcast on Syria-based television channel on Thursday, the fugitive Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi vowed to come back and defend his country from the ‘colonial power’.

Yokeia Smith, a young mother from East St. Louis, III., allegedly shot dead her two children and fled the crime scene in her car, police said.

Rescuers and firefighters, who were exposed to the dust of the collapsed World Trade Center on 9/11, are vulnerable to cancer and other respiratory illnesses, says a report.

The clinical trial of injecting stem cell into the brains of three patients as part of treatment of stroke was successful, according to a British biotech company behind the trial.

Venus Williams pulled out of the U.S. Open tournament on Wednesday due to Sjögren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease she had recently been diagnosed with.

Silicone-gel breast implants are safe and effective, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The United States is worse than 40 other countries when it comes to infant mortality. A report published on Tuesday by the World Health Organization (WHO) said babies born in the U.S. have a higher risk of dying within the first month of life than babies born in 40 other countries.

The football magician Lionel Messi arrived in Kolkata early Wednesday to take part in the FIFA international friendly match against Venezuela, which will be played at the Salt Lake Stadium on Sept. 2.

NASA has developed a suitcase-sized fission nuclear reactor capable of generating 40-kilowatt electricity in space. Designed to work on the fission nuclear technology, this nuclear reactor will prove to be a reliable power source not only on Earth, but on the moon and the Martian surface claim the scientists.