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Priyanka serves legal notice on media houses over adoption reports

September 25, 2014 0

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has served legal notices against media organisations for reporting that her son will be adopted by her brother Rahul Gandhi. The media reports suggested that Rahul Gandhi is adopting Priyanka’s son Raihan so that he could use the Gandhi name and join politics.

Nobel Prize science predictions see honors for pain, LEDs and more

September 25, 2014 0
Snow flakes fall on a statue of the founder of the Nobel Prize, Alfred Nobel, outside the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo

By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) – Scientists who discovered phenomena as different as the molecular mechanisms of pain, organic light-emitting diodes that illuminate mobile phones and a new quantum state of matter are top contenders for Nobel prizes next month, according to an annual analysis by Thomson Reuters. The predictions announced on Thursday come from the Intellectual Property & Science unit of Thomson Reuters (which also owns the Reuters news service). …

Allowing blood donations from gay men could help save over a million lives – U.S. study

September 25, 2014 0
Men hug as they take part in the annual Gay Pride Parade on Christopher Street in New York

By Jennifer Chaussee SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Lifting a ban on blood donations from gay men would increase the amount of available blood by hundreds of thousands of pints (liters) each year and save more than a million lives a year, a California study showed on Friday. The U.S. Federal Drug Administration has banned gay men from donating blood since 1983, when it was discovered that HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, was being transmitted through transfusions. …

Jurors deliberating in poisoned doctor trial

September 24, 2014 0
Dr. Ana Maria Gonzalez-Angulo, right, wipes her eyes after her defense attorney Derek Hollingsworth, left, finished his closing argument in her trial, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014, in Houston. Gonzalez-Angulo, a breast cancer doctor, is accused of spiking researcher George Blumenschein's coffee in 2013 with a chemical found in antifreeze. Blumenschein survived. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Melissa Phillip)

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas cancer researcher accused of poisoning a colleague who was also her lover was described by prosecutors on Wednesday as a devious and manipulative person who took extreme action when the man she’d become obsessed with rejected her.

‘Boxtrolls’ blends old-school, high-tech animation

September 24, 2014 0
In this image released by Focus Features, a scene is shown from "The Boxtrolls." (AP Photo/Focus Features)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Archibald Snatcher, “The Boxtrolls” villain voiced by Ben Kingsley, did not walk between sets during filming. Instead, he was delicately perched on a pillow and wheeled gingerly through the studio.