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HYDERABAD: In an alarming trend, an increasing number of women from across the city who wear the burqa or observe purdah are being diagnosed with vitamin D deficiency on account of inadequate exposure to sunlight. Exposure of at least hands or feet to sunlight every day for 15-20 minutes is...

The Iranian plateau is becoming uninhabitable. … Groundwater has decreased and a negative water balance is widespread, and no one is thinking about this. “I am deeply worried about the future generations. … If this situation is not reformed, in 30 years Iran will be a ghost...

No Cookies | The Advertiser The European Parliament has awarded the EU's top human rights award, the Sakharov prize, to Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani girl who survived a Taliban assassination attempt last year for supporting girls' education. The 50,000 euro (AU$71,692)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jRn4WpoNAyo NASA’s Warp Drive Project: “Speeds” that Could Take a Spacecraft to Alpha Centauri in Two Weeks — Even Though the System is 4.3 Light-Years Away. A few months ago, physicist Harold White stunned the aeronautics world...

One year ago, a Taliban assassin put a gun to 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai's head and pulled the trigger because she wanted to go to school. Now, the Taliban is threatening her again, on the eve of the most important week of her life. "Malala Yousafzai targeted and criticized Islam," said...

BRICs stumble By BERNARD CONDON AP Business Writer Posted: 10/05/2013 10:24:21 PM MDT NEW YORK—The developing countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China recovered quickly from the financial crisis five years ago. Their spending helped keep a global recession from becoming a global...

Introducing WildCat - YouTube Someone really needs to send a copy of "The Terminator" to the geniuses at the U.S. Department of Defense’s DARPA initiative, because they’re clearly not concerned with the future of the human race. Meet their latest creation: the WildCat, a wireless robotic...

If you pay any attention to media coverage of the F-35 fighter program, then you know the Pentagon’s biggest weapons program is “troubled” (to use the favored adjective of reporters). Flight tests are lagging, costs are skyrocketing, and overseas partners are beginning to get cold feet. So the...

MOSCOW, April 12 (RIA Novosti) - Russian air force commander-in-chief Aleksandr Zelin has announced the cancellation of the $20-billion PAK-FA program after 20 years of escalating costs, technological glitches and redesigns failed to produce a single prototype aircraft. The PAK-FA, once billed...

WASHINGTON: From this city’s perspective, China looks like a rising giant, liable to dominate its smaller neighbors unless America stands firm. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will likely carry soothing words of reassurance on this very subject to Seoul and Tokyo when he travels there next week...