Muslim Cleric Outlaws "Erotic" Fruits for Women: Weird or Wise?
Submitted by Neeraj Shahane on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 13:32
As per recent reports, it has been revealed a Europe-based Islamic cleric has recently recommended women to stay away from certain fruits and vegetables such as cucumber and bananas. The advice has mainly been given since the shapes of these fruits and vegetables can allegedly kindle 'sexual thoughts' in the eves.
One in six of global population at risk of suffering strokes
Submitted by Pallavi Sharma on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 07:11
Around sixth (17%) of people around the globe are at risk of suffering strokes sometime during their lives, the European Society of Cardiology warned.
The European Society of Cardiology also warned that stroke accounts for a death every six seconds. They also warned that cases of stroke would jump from six million to eight million around the globe in the coming twenty years.
EU Apex Court Bans Stem Cell Procedure
Submitted by Dinesh Chandra Gaur on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 13:11
Stem-cell technology is one of the emerging fields in UK but it would suffer a setback, as the Europe’s apex court has ruled out that it would not patent any stem cell research or process, which involves destruction of human embryo.
UK scientist fraternity has got real shock from this ruling, and termed ‘quite devastating’.
Recent outage may provoke many angry customers to ditch BlackBerry
Submitted by Neelesh Raghuwanshi on Thu, 10/13/2011 - 07:10
The latest worldwide BlackBerry outage that left millions of RIM customers without email or text services could provoke many angry customers to switch over to alternative smartphones.
Angry customers have already flooded Twitter and other social networking sites with complaints against the outage, with some even threatening that they were ready to give up the BlackBerry.
Nintendo to launch special blue Wii bundle at London 2012 Olympic Games
Submitted by Sumit Yayavar on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 08:33
European unit of Videogame hardware giant Nintendo has confirmed that it would launch a special blue Wii console bundle at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The special console will bring a blue Wii console, a blue Wii Remote Plus, sticker sheet, Nunchuk, along with a copy of Sega's new game Mario and Sonic.
The iPhone 4S to come with Micro-USB adaptor in Europe
Submitted by Surjit Singh on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 10:45
Apple devices can now be charged without Apple’s proprietary white cable, thanks to launch of a new micro-USB adaptor that will go on sale next week alongside the new iPhone 4S.
The iPhone micro-USB adaptor will allow users to charge their Apple devices, such as iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch by borrowing a colleague's or a friend’s charger cable.
