US President Barack Obama on Saturday received the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, for talks choreographed to be as low-key as possible, defying strident warnings from China.

BINGE-DRINKING can have a long-lasting negative effect on the brains of teenaged girls, hitting them harder than it does young boys, a study shows.

Shop when you are happier, for a study says that consumers in a positive mood can make quicker and more consistent judgements than unhappy people. “There has been considerable debate about how moods, emotions, feelings influence the quality of people’s decisions. We join this debate by looking at affect’s influence on a very basic element of decision-making: deciding if an object is liked or disliked,” lead researcher Bruce E. Pfeiffer of the University of New Hampshire said.

Defying Chinese protest, US President Barack Obama on Saturday met Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at the White House and shared ‘genuine concerns’ about human rights in Tibet. The meeting las

US President Barack Obama will meet on Saturday with Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, defying warnings from China after calls built at home to welcome the monk, officials said.

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Osama bin Laden was plotting to kill US President Barack Obama and Gen David Petraeus, Commander of US forces in Afghanistan, a media report today said, citing information obtained from the material

News Corp. chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch defended his company's handling of the phone-hacking scandal in Britain on Thursday and said it will recover from the crisis.

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America's FBI has started inquiry into allegations that media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. tried to hack into the phones of 9/11 terror attack victims, media reports have said.

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The United States has offered assistance to India in the investigations of the July 13 Mumbai blasts that left 18 people dead and over 100 injured.

Washington stand ready to help India in its in

At the time of Wednesday’s bombings in Mumbai, crowd-sourcing encyclopedia Wikipedia had listed Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab’s birthday as July 13, 1987, attributing the date to a newspaper article