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India objects to Jay Leno's remark on Golden Temple

India has strongly 'objected' to the remark on the Golden Temple by popular US television host Jay Leno, terming it 'quite unfortunate'.

Leno, the host of the popular 'The Tonight Show' on NBC

6.2 quake hits near southern Mexico coast: USGS

A 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck near Mexico's southern coast on Saturday, US Geological Survey seismologists said.

The quake occurred at a depth of 66 kilometers (41 miles) some 57 kilometers south

Gingrich trounces Romney in South Carolina Republican primary

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Newt Gingrich has scored a crushing double-digit victory over Mitt Romney in the South Carolina Republican Presidential primary, stripping him of his front-runner status and breaking wide open the rac

Soon, ‘thinking’ underwear to monitor modern soldiers during combat

Modern war fighters may soon be wearing underwears equipped with sensors, which would not just help in monitoring warriors during combat and identifying critical casualties but also train and select t

Drunk man blames ‘ghost’ for punched and strangled wife

A man in the US was arrested when he told police that a ‘ghost’ was responsible for his wife’s battered condition.

Michael F West, 41, of Fond du Lac Avenue in Wisconsin, was charged with strangulati

Rare monkey rediscovered in Borneo

An endangered monkey known as the Miller’s Grizzled Langur has been discovered on the island of Borneo in an area it was not previously known to inhabit, international researchers said on Friday.

Shadowed areas of moon hide ‘fluffy dirt, water ice’

The permanently shadowed regions of the Moon have baffled scientists since long.

US mulling closure of embassy in Syria

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The US State Department has said it is considering closing its embassy in Damascus over growing safety concerns as the death toll mounts in the Syrian regime's crackdown on pro-democracy protests.

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'Pakistan to allow US military trainers to return'

Pakistan would allow US military trainers, who were kicked out of the country following the November 26 NATO raid, to return as early as April or May and would also reopen the crucial supply route for

Employees’ 10 most ‘outrageous’ excuses for coming in late

Employees tend to be extremely creative when it comes to giving excuses for being late for work, researchers say.

While traffic and lack of sleep top the CareerBuilder survey of employees’ tardiness

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

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