Time magazine has released a photograph of US President Barack Obama before he went to his senior prom in 1979.The images that were published on Thursday, shows Obama, then 17, with his date and another couple before their senior prom in Hawaii.In the images, Obama sports a white suit jacket while his date Megan Hughes wore a light blue gown.Also seen in the picture is his classmate Kelli Allman, who...

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Indian-Americans hail Srinivasan`s elevation as US judge

Prominent Indian-Americans on Friday hailed the historic nomination of legal eagle Srikanth Sri Srinivasan as a judge to the country's second highest court.Chandigarh-born Srinivasan's nomination to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was unanimously approved by the Senate with 97 voting in favour.46-year-old Srinivasan has become the first South Asian to be appointed to the...

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King Richard III `was hastily buried in untidy lozenge-shaped grave`

King Richard III was casually placed in a badly-prepared grave, suggesting that gravediggers were in a hurry to bury him, a new study has revealed.University of Leicester archaeologists have revealed for the first time specific details of the grave dug for King Richard III, which was discovered under a car park in Leicester in February.It followed a three-week dig started in August 2012 at what was...

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China gives US regulators access to audit records

WASHINGTON (AP) — China has agreed to give U.S. regulators access to audit records for Chinese companies whose shares trade on U.S. stock exchanges, a step forward in a long-running dispute., a watchdog agency for the accounting industry, announced the agreement with China on Friday.The Securities and Exchange Commission has accused about a dozen Chinese companies of accounting fraud and has been ...

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Barack Obama seeks end to perpetual US 'war on terror'

Twelve years after the "war on terror" began, President Barack Obama wants to pull the United States back from some of the most controversial aspects of its global fight against Islamist militants.In a major policy speech on Thursday, Obama narrowed the scope of the targeted-killing drone campaign against al Qaeda and its allies and took steps toward closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba.He...

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Genetically modified purple tomatoes 'tastier and longer-lasting'

Tomatoes, believed to be the most popular fruit in the world, could be made to taste better and have a longer shelf life.Professor Cathie Martin from the John Innes Centre and her colleagues researched tomatoes enriched in anthocyanin, a natural pigment that confers high antioxidant capacity.The purple GM tomatoes have been found to prolong the lives of cancer-prone mice and in the new findings they...

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Gwyneth Paltrow's dad Bruce taught me to be humble, says Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt, who broke up with Gwyneth Paltrow more than 15 years ago, has revealed that one of the most memorable bits of advice he has ever received came from the actress' late father.Pitt told Esquire magazine that Bruce Paltrow taught him to describe his line of work as "self-employed" instead of calling himself as an "actor", Us magazine reported.The 49-year-old actor said that if a stranger were...

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Heart healthy lifestyle may help protect kidney patients from dying prematurely

new study has found that maintaining a heart healthy lifestyle may also help protect chronic kidney disease patients from developing kidney failure and early death.The findings suggest that patients with kidney disease should be encouraged to improve their heart health.Paul Muntner, PhD (University of Alabama at Birmingham) and his colleagues used the American Heart Association's recently published...

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Common childhood asthma found unrelated to allergens or inflammation

team of researchers has revealed the roots of a common type of childhood asthma, showing that it is very different from other asthma cases.The team at Weill Cornell Medical College, Columbia University Medical Center and SUNY Downstate Medical Center found that an over-active gene linked in 20 to 30 percent of patients with childhood asthma interrupts the synthesis of lipid molecules (known as sph...

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Drug target to boost body's natural flu killer identified

known difficulty in fighting influenza (flu) is the ability of the flu viruses to mutate and thus evade various medications that were previously found to be effective.Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have shown recently that another, more promising, approach is to focus on improving drugs that boost the body's natural flu killer system.Emergence of new influenza strains, such as the...

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