Doctors in the silicon city of India hope to exploit the global health market with a new non-invasive radiation treatment to treat cancer patients at a much lower rates compared to costs abroad. »
Another internet lottery fraud? What’s new? But here, a Gulbarga man made a Nigerian fraudster emerge out of the cyberscreen and put him in the police net in Gulbarga on Saturday. Arunachal Bhat, a resident of Vidyanagar in Gulbarga and a hotel owner, came across the “UK National Lottery” while surfing the internet a f e w m o n t h s ago and played it. He received an email by a Charles, who claimed himself as an agent of the Lottery residing in New Delhi saying he has won the Rs 36-crore lottery. »
The luckiest woman in Europe lives in a small white bungalow with two horseshoe-decorated flowerboxes outside it. »
In a death-defying act of heroism at sea, a Cape Town police diver saved a southern right whale from a long and lingering death by cutting away about 60kg of rope and buoys entangled around the mammal. »
HOLLYWOOD hero Jean-Claude Van Damme was rescued by cops after taking on TEN mobsters. »
The man who invented the PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is working on a similar project for Internet phones. »
OVER-THE-TOP phone bills are leaving plenty of Australians in debt, and many are turning to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) for help.
In the first quarter of 2005 alone, the TIO received nearly 11,000 complaints about landlines – one-third of them relating to charges. Mobile phones generated even more complaints. »
They wear dark clothes and sunglasses. They sport facial hair and hang out at bars. And when they travel, they are among the noisiest motorists on the road. »
A revolutionary advance in cataract surgery was just introduced by the surgeons at Carolina Eye Associates. »
In LASIK, doctors gently fold back a thin protective flap of cornea protective tissue. The laser then has access to re-shape the cornea, and the flap is re-placed. »
The Danes love their beer, but increasingly they are looking beyond the old Danish standby, Carlsberg, to quench their thirst. »
Rajah may have used up eight lives in one fell swoop last weekend. The 2-month-old kitten plummeted off the 15th-floor balcony of an Alexandria high-rise. Sunday morning, when Jessica Vides went to feed her two cats, only Linx showed up. “I asked my fiancé, ‘Have you seen Rajah?’ ” said Vides. “He has a habit of falling into the drawers and hiding.” After scouring the apartment, they continued their search outside on the off-chance the kitten had snuck out the door. Eventually, her fiance found the kitty in the bushes by the foundation of their building, a full 15 stories below their balcony. “Rajah was moving and, amazingly, seemed fine,” Vides said. »
Abraham Wondergem Jr., a child of the Great Depression, was used to being poor for most of his 78 years. Until now. »
A hospital camera network which lets bed-bound mothers see live pictures of their premature babies is helping save lives, according to medical staff. »
Cape Town Metro Rescue Services rescued a hiker who was trapped for two days on Table Mountain, SABC news said on Saturday. »