The Obama administration has announced to appoint a blind Indian-American to a key administrative post in an independent US agency devoted for people with disabilities.

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Two American brothers of Pakistani descent have been arrested in Florida for plotting to provide material support to terrorists and to use a weapon of mass destruction within the US.

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Two people had winning tickets in the $550 million Powerball jackpot, beating the one in 175 million odds for the second largest lottery in American history, the game’s website said early Thursday.

A supermassive black hole emitting a record setting X-ray jet some 12.4 billion light years from earth has been discovered by Nasa.

A newly discovered species of colourful, freshwater fish has been named after US President Barack Obama due to his ‘global vision of environmental protection and conservation’, scientists say.

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The Obama administration said on Tuesday that China's currency remained 'significantly undervalued', but stopped short of labeling the world's second-biggest economy a currency manipulator.

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Researchers have found that a “molecular network” with self-perpetuating capability may have triggered a possible mechanism by which life got a foothold on the early earth.

Love at first flight! Stranded airport passengers are increasingly turning to travel dating websites to combat boredom and meet new people while they wait at the departure gate.

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The structure and the growth of the universe may be similar to that of human brain and the Internet, a new study has found.

Researchers for the first time have streamed braille patterns directly into a blind patient’s retina, allowing him to read four-letter words accurately and quickly with the help of a device.