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Following complain that China is not sharing human bird flu samples, the World Health Organisation said on Friday(20th April 2007) that now China has agreed to share human bird flu samples. Technorati Tags: Health, China, Bird Flu, Human Bird Flu, WHO, World Health Organisation

According to a British Medical Journal study,eating less salt can cut cardiovascular disease risk by a quarter and fatal heart disease by a fifth.”We are only talking about quite small reductions in salt intake to have a big effect on risk” said Professor Graham MacGregor Technorati Tags: Health, BMJ, Salt, British [...]

A Colour barcode developed by Microsoft and named High Capacity Color Barcode (HCCB) able to hold more data than the current black and white barcode will find its way onto DVDs later this year.”It’s more of a ‘partner’ barcode,the UPC barcodes will always be there. Ours is more of a niche barcode where you want [...]

Yes you are not dreaming Microsoft is planning to sell software for just $3 (£1.50) in some parts of the world in an attempt to double the number of global PC users by 2015.

Cho Seung-Hui, Virginia Tech gunman sent letters and photos to NBC News on the day of the killings.”You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today,But you decided to spill my blood. You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option. The decision was yours. Now you have blood [...]

This morning we launched the Google AJAX Feed API, an API that takes the pain out of developing mashups in JavaScript. Now you can mash up feeds using only a few lines of JavaScript rather than dealing with complex server-side proxies.Read MoreTechnorati Tags: Google, Google Ajax Api, Javascripts

A BJP Member of Parliament,Babu Bhai Katara, MP from Dahod in Gujarat, along with a woman companion was detained after it was found that the woman accompanying the MP was using the passport of Babu Bhai Katara’s wife Sharada Ben on way to Toronto in Canada at the Indira Gandhi International Airport.The BJP MP has [...]

The first bird flu vaccine for people made by French company Sanofi-Aventis has got U.S. approval on Tuesday as an interim measure in case an influenza pandemic strikes before a better immunization comes along.Technorati Tags: Health, Vaccine, Bird Flu, H5N1, Pandemic, Sanofi-Aventis

The Supreme Court narrowly upheld a federal law today banning a controversial abortion procedure, giving the anti-abortion movement one of its biggest legal victories in years…Read More @ New York Times or BBC NEWSTechnorati Tags: Abortion, Anti-abortion, Federal Law, US Supreme Court

The BBC is to open up its vast archive of video and audio in an on-demand trial involving more than 20,000 people in the UK. Read More
Technorati Tags: BBC NEWS, BBC Archive

A French judge in Last November issued warrants against nine associates of President Paul Kagame, implicated President Paul Kagame in his predecessor’s killing.Now Rwanda has asked the International Court of Justice to quash French arrest warrants.

The BBC NEWS Website has assembled a panel of voters from across France and asked them how they will vote and what the main issues are for them.Read their views at BBC NEWSTechnorati Tags: French Election, France, Sarkozy, bayrou, Segolene, Le Pen

According to BBC NEWS Website a network failure is jamming emails being sent and received by Blackberry users in the Western Hemisphere.
Technorati Tags: Blackberry, UK, Western Hemisphere, Email

At least 82 people die in a car bomb blast on a food market in the Sadriya Baghdad, Iraq.Technorati Tags: Baghdad, Iraq, Blast, Market

According to Japan Press Agency Kyodo, the Nagasaki Mayor Iccho Ito, 61Yrs old died on the early Wednesday after being shot Tuesday by gangster.Technorati Tags: Japan, Nagasaki, Iccho Ito

A professor who taught a student whose gun rampage at Virginia Tech left 32 people dead says she warned university officials about his behaviour.Source BBC NEWSTechnorati Tags: Virginia Tech, Gunman