In what turned out to be a shocker of a game, French qualifier Julie Coin, ranked 188th in the world ousted world No. 1 Ana Ivanovic from the 2008 U.S. Open on Thursday. The 25-year-old Coin, beat Ivanovic 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 in second-round action at the 2008 U.S. Open which took place at Arthur Ashe Stadium.

According to estimates released Wednesday by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York City has a HIV infection rate which is three times the national rate.

The Big Apple has an incidence of 72 new infections for every 100,000 people, compared with 23 per 100,000 nationally. These findings are based on new lab technology and a recently derived statistical code by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention giving the most precise estimate the city had ever offered.

Former world No. 1 Jelena Jankovic, former champion and last year's runner-up Svetlana Kuznetsova, and Olympic gold medalist Elena Dementieva emerged as winners of the third round on Wednesday at the U.S. Open.

The second-seeded Jankovic beat Swede Sofia Arvidsson 6-3, 6-7 (5-7), 7-5 in 2 hours, 45 minutes.

Jankovic, who held the No. 1 ranking for one week just two weeks ago, seemed to be sailing smoothly on Day 3, up a set and serving for the match at 5-4 in the second, till she was confronted by Arvidsson.

Pregnancy is quite a crucial time for mother as well as growing baby. It’s well known fact that mothers during this time should be taken well care of, physically as well mentally, for if this is not done, it can adversely affect the health of the unborn child.

Recently a study has reported that pregnant females, who go under stress during this period, are more prone to give birth to a child which is at risk of developing schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is an acute mental disorder in which the patient completely becomes detached form the world of reality.

Predictably, strong contenders in the men’s tournament seem to be the three top players Rafael Nadal, who started strongly on Day 1, and Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, both of whom will play on Tuesday.

But the women’s tournament seems to be thrown wide open. Two not so popular players have caught people’s attention this week. Elena Dementieva, got off to winning start in round one. Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark is the other and she was up an early break in the first against Ahsha Rolle of Miami when this report was filed.

U.S. News & World Report’s annual list of the nation’s best colleges, released on Friday, has Harvard right at the top knocking out Princeton, which was on first slot for the last three years.

Yale comes in third, followed by Massachusettes Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford. MIT and Stanford tie for the fourth slot.

California Institute of Technology (Caltech) ties for sixth with the University of Pennsylvania.

New York City's first cases of West Nile Virus of the season have survived while two more persons in San Joaquin County contracted the virus. Health officials say more mosquitoes have been tested positive for the virus this year.

According to a new study, obese people are not always metabolically unhealthy while many slim people have health problems usually linked to obesity.

Reported in the August 11 - 25 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, the study at the University of Tübingen in Germany studied obese participants and found that their cardiovascular risk factors of insulin sensitivity and artery wall thickness did not greatly differ from those with a normal body weight.

A new study reports that people who were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and lost weight soon after being diagnosed were more likely to be able to control their disease as compared to people who didn’t lose weight or those who gained weight.

Gregory A. Nichols, PhD, an investigator for Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research in Portland, Ore., and a co-author of the study said, "People who lost weight were more likely to attain their blood sugar and blood pressure goals than people who gained weight or maintained a stable weight."

Scarlett Johansson said that all the hullabaloo over her so-called “e-mail relationship” with Barack Obama was causing her a lot of embarrassment.

“It seemed to me to be like a product of extreme sexism, and I kept thinking to myself, ‘God, if this was just, like, Kal Penn or George Clooney or any of the other (Obama) surrogates or supporters ... there wouldn't be (any) question about it. Nobody would even talk about it,” she said.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the New York voters shows that the Democratic presidential campaigner, Barack Obama is having dominating lead over his Republican rival, John McCain in the Empire State.

Rasmussen Reports’ Obama McCain New York Poll, released yesterday, gives the Democrats 93.0 % chance of winning the Empire State’s thirty-three Electoral College Votes this fall.

The Empire State is the home state of Sen. Hillary Clinton, so the Democrats obviously have upper hand in the state. The Democratic Party’s Presidential candidate Barack Obama was leading his Republican rival in the New York state in the month of July. Well, that’s what the Obama McCain New York Polls conducted in July say.

Siena College's McCain Obama New York Poll, conducted the July 7—July 10, showed Obama leading McCain by 13 % points – 50 % to 37 % among the registered voters of New York.

Calvin Klein commercial for the new fragrance, in which actress Eva Mendes is featured topless flashing her nipples, has been banned in the United States, after the advertisement was found too raunchy for television networks. Now, available online on Calvin Klein's website, the commercial was composed for the Calvin Klein’s new perfume “Secret Obsession”.

The number of obese people is increasing throughout the world. Obesity increases the risk of many diseases in a person. Sedentary lifestyle and restaurant culture are the major causes of Obesity.

Vanity Fair’s International Best-Dressed List, in the issue hitting stands on Wednesday, might have thrown up a surprise for quite a few! It seems like New York women have surpassed the Hollywood divas in their dressing sense. Half of the 10 best-dressed women in the world live in the Big Apple, and Sarah Jessica Parker is the only actress featuring among them. The other four include business baronesses Evelyn Lauder, Diana Taylor and Ivanka Trump and philanthropist Julia Koch.