Eating too much sugar can eat away at your brainpower, according to US scientists who published a study Tuesday showing how a steady diet of high-fructose corn syrup sapped lab rats’ memories. Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) fed two groups of rats a solution containing high-fructose corn syrup — a common [...]

A 72-year old Nepali national died of heart attack onboard London-bound Qatar Airways flight. Sajit Buda died inside the plane on his way to London via QR 001 flight from the second transit in Doha, Qatar. It is learnt that Buda had flown with an oxygen mask on Thursday via QR 355 flight to Doha [...]

It turns out you can recycle just about anything these days — even kidneys and other organs donated for transplants. Recently in Chicago, in what is believed to be the first documented case of its kind in the U.S., a transplanted kidney that was failing was removed from a patient while he was still alive [...]

Madhusara K.C, 30, of Baijapur VDC in Banke had no desire to give birth to eight children but being unaware of the family planning methods she unwillingly gave birth to six alive and two still-to-born babies. “I gave birth to eight children by the time I became 30 years old and only six of them [...]

At least 26 infants have died in the past five days in a state-run hospital in India’s West Bengal state, reports quoting authorities said on Sunday. The hospital in Malda, about 340 kilometres (211 miles) north of Kolkata, has come under attack for negligence while state health officials claim the babies were underweight and several [...]

A 15-year-old Afghan girl was brutally tortured, beaten and locked in a toilet by her husband’s family for months after she refused to become a prostitute, officials said Saturday. Sahar Gul was in critical condition when she was rescued from a house in northern Baghlan province last week, after her neighbors reported hearing Gul crying [...]

Haji Phoolwati Khatun, the eldest person of Muslim community in Sunsari district, passed away at the age of 110 at her own residence at Madheli VDC-8, Wednesday morning.  According to RSS, Khatun was so old that she had given birth to a child even before an earthquake of 1990 BS. According to Haji Abdul Sakur, [...]

(CNN) – If you’re a woman contemplating surgery on your female parts, you’ll find plenty of ladies chatting and blogging away about their experiences, often on websites adorned with pink ribbons. But if you’re a man considering male surgery there’s not so much out there. There’s no ribbon for, say, penis surgery, and comparatively few men [...]