London, Apr. 23 : Facebook has become a breeding ground for racists and far-right extremists, according to immigrant leaders and anti-racism campaigners, who believe the site''s owners are not doing enough to clamp down on cyber hate.
More than 200 million people around the world belong to the social networking site, which attracts thousands of new members every day.
London, April 23 : Web founder Tim Berners-Lee has warned against Internet service providers' plans to show specific advertisements to their clients depending on their browsing habits.
The MIT professor, at a Web conference in Madrid, expressed his concern over the new software, entitled Webwise, which replaced standard online ads with those of the browser's dominating interests.
London, April 23 : Queen Elizabeth reportedly held a “low key” party to celebrate her 83rd birthday keeping in mind the ongoing recession.
The Royal was said to have preferred a meal at her son Prince Edward’s house, in place of a banquet in the state rooms of Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle.
The Monarch and Prince Philip allegedly kept their company limited to 16 family and friends at Bagshot Park, Surrey, on April 21.
And the crunched supper purportedly included chicken breast stuffed with red peppers, followed by a simple creme brulee.
London, April 23 : Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have identified potential therapeutic targets to fight dengue fever.
By painstakingly silencing genes one at a time, they have identified dozens of proteins the dengue fever virus depends upon to grow and spread among mosquitoes and humans.
London, April 23 : British actress Emma Watson, who vowed to put acting on hold to concentrate on her degree, will continue her movie career when she starts university.
The 20-year-old, who will start her degree course later this year, will film Harry Potter scenes during term time holidays.
It means that Watson will have to work through her Christmas and Easter breaks, as she''s required on the set of ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’, the final two-part film of the wizard franchise.
London, Apr 23 : Swedish researchers claim to have solved the mystery of how some animals can sniff out sickness.
Ivan Rodriguez at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and colleagues have found a type of smell receptor in mice that appears to respond to disease-related molecules produced by bacteria, viruses, or as the result of inflammation, reports New Scientist.
London, Apr. 23 : Facebook has become a breeding ground for racists and far-right extremists, according to immigrant leaders and anti-racism campaigners, who believe the site''s owners are not doing enough to clamp down on cyber hate.
London, April 23 : Web founder Tim Berners-Lee has warned against Internet service providers' plans to show specific advertisements to their clients depending on their browsing habits.
London, April 23 : Queen Elizabeth reportedly held a “low key” party to celebrate her 83rd birthday keeping in mind the ongoing recession.
London, April 23 : Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have identified potential therapeutic targets to fight dengue fever.
London, April 23 : British actress Emma Watson, who vowed to put acting on hold to concentrate on her degree, will continue her movie career when she starts university.
London, Apr 23 : Swedish researchers claim to have solved the mystery of how some animals can sniff out sickness.
