Washington: Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has won the Republican primary in Florida, defeating Newt Gingrich. The victory has brought him closer to bagging the Republican nomination to challenge the incumbent, Barack Obama, in November presidential elections. Gingrich, who created a major upset in the previous South Carolina, was polled over 4.25 lakh votes against Romney's 6.3 lakh votes with more than two-thirds of the votes counted. As a result,...
07:21 AM, Feb 01, 2012
Cocoa Beach, Florida: Florida's Republican voters go to the polls on Tuesday in a high-stakes presidential primary election that could determine the direction of the race. In what shapes up as a two-man contest, most opinion polls show Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, holding a double-digit lead over Newt Gingrich, a former US House speaker. Florida is the largest state to hold a presidential primary so far this year...
03:08 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Miami: Mitt Romney strode into the final 48 hours of the pivotal Florida Republican primary campaign with the confidence of a resurgent front-runner, predicting he'll win in Tuesday's voting while looking ahead to future contests. His main rival Newt Gingrich hustled around the state, trying to rekindle the energy that lifted him to victory in the South Carolina primary on Jan 21. He acknowledged the possibility he could lose here...
11:32 PM, Jan 29, 2012
New York: At 91, Bernice Bates may not look like a typical yoga instructor but the Florida based great-grandmother has been named the world's oldest yoga teacher by the Guinness Book of World Records. Bates has been practising yoga for the last 50 years and credits the ancient Indian exercise form for her years of good health. She was nominated for the Guinness record earlier this year by her daughter....
07:28 PM, Dec 23, 2011
Washington: That playing video games makes the brain smarter and improves concentration might be a myth fostered by a host of studies. "Despite the hype, in reality, there is little solid evidence that games enhance cognition at all," said Walter Boot, assistant professor in psychology at Florida State University who led the study. Many of those studies compared the cognitive skills of frequent gamers to non-gamers and found gamers to...
03:05 PM, Sep 17, 2011
Washington: Now all your mindless munching can soon come to a halt with Bite Counter, a gadget to remind you of the number of bites you intake, claim researchers. Bite Counter is worn like a wrist watch. It tracks a pattern of wrist-roll motion to identify when the wearer has taken a bite of food. "Studies have shown that people tend to underestimate what they eat by large margins, mostly...
07:25 PM, Aug 03, 2011
New York: People who chew their food more take in fewer calories, mainly because more chewing is related to the levels of hormones that regulate appetite, according to a Chinese study. Chewing food 40 times instead of a typical 15 times caused the study participants to eat nearly 12 percent fewer calories, the study - published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition - said. "Compared with lean participants, obese...
11:48 AM, Aug 03, 2011
Malwan, UP: The Howrah-Delhi-Kalka Mail accident at Malwan in Uttar Pradesh is perhaps one of the worst rail accidents in recent times that leaves behind more than 60 people dead and hundreds injured, with the death toll still rising. For those who lost their loved ones life will never be the same. In the midst of the madness and chaos, one can't help but notice a child crying helplessly. But...
04:14 PM, Jul 11, 2011
Melbourne: Having trouble shedding those extra kilos? You may soon get an injection that could help you burn calories and melt the excess flab away. A team by an Indian-origin researcher showed that they were able to turn white fat into brown fat in mice by blocking a natural chemical in their bodies. The change led to weight loss, improved blood sugar levels and insulin tolerance in the rodents, the...
12:10 PM, Jul 11, 2011
Orlando: A Florida jury on Tuesday found Casey Anthony not guilty of murder in the June 16, 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. Jurors deliberated nearly 11 hours over two days, taking nearly six hours on Monday with no break for the US Independence Day holiday, before reaching the verdict. The defense had argued that Caylee died in an accidental drowning. Prosecutors had been expected to seek the death...
01:02 AM, Jul 06, 2011
Miami: Authorities say rapper Sean Kingston is hospitalized after crashing a personal watercraft into a Miami Beach bridge. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Jorge Pino says Kingston and a female passenger were injured when the watercraft hit the Palm Island Bridge around 6 pm Sunday. Pino says both were hospitalized early Monday at Ryder Trauma Center, but he didn't know their conditions. Pino says authorities are investigating the...
04:03 PM, May 30, 2011
Mingora: Pakistani authorities interrogated a teenager on Monday wanted in the United States on charges of financing and supporting the al Qaeda-linked Pakistani Taliban, local intelligence officials said. Alam Zeb, 19, was charged in Florida along with his mother and a family friend. He is the grandson of the imam of a Florida mosque who was arrested in the United States along with his two sons on Saturday on the...
09:01 AM, May 17, 2011
Miami: The imam of a Florida mosque and his two sons, one also a Muslim spiritual leader, were arrested on Saturday on charges of financing and supporting the Pakistani Taliban, US officials said. The three Pakistan-born US citizens were among six charged in a US indictment that accused them of "supporting acts of murder, kidnapping and maiming in Pakistan and elsewhere" carried out by the Pakistani Taliban, which Washington calls...
08:36 AM, May 15, 2011
Palmetto: A Tampa-area woman found an unwelcome weekend guest in her bathroom - a 7-foot alligator. Alexis Dunbar says she screamed and the alligator hissed when she found it inside the bathroom of her home Saturday afternoon. Her boyfriend propped a small table by the bathroom to keep the gator inside until an officer from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission showed up to take him away. Dunbar believes...
01:28 PM, Apr 27, 2011
New York: Worried about how many calories you are going to consume in that slice of pizza, chocolate cake or bag of fries? A new iPhone application may help. After taking a picture of the meal with the phone, the app gives a calorie read-out almost instantly. The app, called MealSnap, was developed by DailyBurn, a fitness social network that has created several other fitness and diet-related iPhone applications. Within...
06:07 PM, Apr 13, 2011
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