Over the last 50 years, the owners of the James Bond movie franchise have had heart-stopping crises as thrilling as the ones that face their fictional secret agent. They've nearly gone bust more than once and have come close to losing all of their rights in court. But the franchise has survived and thrived under the family of late producer Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, whose name has graced every official Bond...
11:00 AM, Oct 05, 2012
Portable incubators providing a new lease of life to newborns, grandmothers fighting gender bias by taking up shooting and more inspiring stories. ...
06:03 PM, Sep 15, 2012
Bangalore: Portable incubators are providing a new lease of life to hundreds of newborns. Priced at a reasonable Rs 15,000, these incubators have been installed in hundreds of hospitals and ambulances across four states. A woman, Katyayini gave a premature birth to a child, who weighed 1.4 kg. The doctors advised the 23-year-old mother to keep the baby in an incubator till he gained weight. "He sleeps well in this...
09:13 AM, Sep 10, 2012
Chennai: The family of a 12-day-old baby girl who died on Sunday at the Government Kasturba Gandhi Hospital for Women and Children here was shocked when they were given her body with a portion of her face missing. The premature baby had been kept in the incubator till it died, which is why the family was shocked to see the bite marks on its tiny face. When a nurse allegedly...
11:01 AM, Aug 28, 2012
London: Flyweight Robeisy Ramirez won Cuba's second Olympic boxing gold medal of the games on Sunday, capping a stellar run through the tournament with a 17-14 victory over Mongolia's Tugstsogt Nyambayar. The 18-year-old Ramirez won Cuba's 34th Olympic boxing gold, second only to the US team's 48. Ramirez got his toughest test of the tournament from Nyambayar, who fell just short of winning only the third gold medal in Mongolia's...
09:41 PM, Aug 12, 2012
Sariska sanctuary lost all its tigers to poaching in 2005 and the cub was born to a relocated tigress. ...
02:42 PM, Aug 08, 2012
London: Cuba's Mijain Lopez Nunez won gold for Cuba in the men's 120 kg Greco-Roman wrestling on Monday, beating Estonia's Heiki Nabi on points in the final. Lopez Nunez won 3-0 as Nabi claimed Estonia's first medal in London with silver. World champion Riza Kayaalp of Turkey beat Lopez Nunez to the world title last year but was forced to settle for bronze, beating Guram Pherselidze of Georgia 3-0. In...
02:44 AM, Aug 07, 2012
London: Bronze medal around his neck, Danell Leyva applauded as Kohei Uchimura took the top spot on the podium. Hey, no shame finishing behind a guy who might very well be the best gymnast of all time. Uchimura added Olympic gold to the world titles he's won the last three years, and it was never much of a contest. All but wrapping up the gold midway through the meet, the...
12:35 AM, Aug 02, 2012
Havana: The freighter Ana Cecilia, which sailed on last Wednesday from Miami to Cuba with a cargo of goods considered humanitarian aid, docked Friday in the port of Havana to inaugurate a service of regular shipments without precedent in the last 50 years. The ship's arrival in Havana Bay occurred at dawn on Friday, one day behind schedule due to administrative problems with the documentation needed for docking at the...
10:57 AM, Jul 14, 2012
Asuncion: Paraguay's new president said on Saturday he would ask his impeached predecessor to help quell regional tensions after Argentina withdrew its ambassador in protest at what it said was a coup and Brazil recalled its top diplomat for consultations. Paraguay's South American neighbours and key trading partners are taking it to task for the unprecedented speed with which its opposition-dominated Congress removed President Fernando Lugo on Friday, saying he...
10:32 PM, Jun 24, 2012
New York: The Coca-Cola Co. plans to start selling its drinks in Myanmar for the first time in 60 years, following the US government's decision to suspend investment sanctions on the country for its democratic reforms. Myanmar is one of three countries where Coca-Cola doesn't do business. The other two are Cuba and North Korea. The world's biggest soft drink maker said Thursday it will start doing business in the...
10:06 AM, Jun 15, 2012
Bangalore: Global software major Microsoft will incubate 10 early-stage technology start-ups in cloud computing, internet and mobile using its Accelerator for Windows Azure programme to help them build businesses, a top official said Wednesday. "The start-ups will have access to our resources such as BizSpark programme and $60,000 in Azure credit through BizSpark Plus programme to take advantage of the cloud," Microsoft India (R&D) Managing Director Amit Chatterjee told reporters...
11:06 AM, May 24, 2012
BANGALORE: Rejected by many a parks in the city with the sign No Pets Allowed, mongrels and pet dogs find solace in the expanded kennel of Bengaluru, the Cubbon Park. Due to the small number of dog friendly parks in the city, owners are forced to take their pets for a walk in the few places that do not restrict their entry.City Express spoke to a few animal lovers, joggers...
08:51 AM, May 21, 2012
New York: Lee Hanson became deeply angry as the self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11 attacks and co-defendants tried to undermine their arraignment on 3,000 counts of murder at a military court in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Hanson's son, daughter-in-law and 2-year-old granddaughter, the youngest 9/11 victim, were killed in the terror attacks over a decade ago. All were aboard United Flight 175, the second plane to crash into the twin...
02:58 PM, May 06, 2012
New Delhi: The trailer of '21 Jump Street' is out. The film stars Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum and Ice Cube in the lead roles. Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the film features two underachieving cops who are sent back to a local high school to blend in and bring down a synthetic drug ring. Here is the trailer. ...
12:26 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Cartagena: A prostitution scandal involving US security personnel in Colombia and an unprecedented regional push to end the isolation of Cuba threatened on Saturday to eclipse President Barack Obama's charm offensive to Latin America. In a major embarrassment for Washington at the Summit of the Americas attended by more than 30 heads of state, 11 US Secret Service agents were sent home and five military servicemen grounded over "misconduct" allegations...
09:56 AM, Apr 15, 2012
Washington: Computer scientists, taking inspiration from the human face, are exploring whether machines can detect lies. In a study of 40 videotaped conversations, an automated system that analysed eye movements correctly identified whether subjects were lying or telling the truth 82.5 per cent of the time. That's a better accuracy rate than expert human interrogators typically achieve in lie-detection experiments, said Ifeoma Nwogu, research assistant professor at University of Buffalo's...
04:56 PM, Mar 27, 2012
New Delhi: To commemorate the 125th birth anniversary of Spanish painter Juan Gris, the third Musketeer of Cubism (Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were the other two) Google has painted a cubist doodle on its home page. Jos Victoriano Gonzlez, better known as Juan Gris (his pseudonym), was an important exponent of the second phase of cubism known as High Cubism and his dominant style was Synthetic Cubism. The abstract...
01:23 AM, Mar 23, 2012
London: Stroke is one of the main cause of death among people over the age of 65 in developing countries like India and China, according to new research. The study surveyed 12,373 people aged 65 and over between 2003 and 2005 in a total of 10 urban and rural sites in India, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Peru, Mexico and China, documenting over 2,000 deaths over a three to five...
08:11 AM, Mar 01, 2012
Caracas: President Hugo Chavez bid an emotional farewell laced with references to Jesus Christ and independence hero Simon Bolivar as he departed Venezuela for Cuba for urgent surgery to remove a tumour he says is probably malignant. Clasping the hand of his youngest daughter, Chavez addressed allies of his socialist political movement and troops standing at attention at the Miraflores presidential palace. "I say this from my gut: With cancer...
07:30 PM, Feb 25, 2012
