Nagesh Narayana

Holly Lahti, a 29-year-old mother of two from Idaho, who was in news for winning the Mega Millions jackpot, the second-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, is under scanner again over her estranged husband who was arrested more than a dozen times for drug possession, buying alcohol for a minor.

Loughner, 22, is accused of opening fire on Giffords and a crowd of bystanders outside a grocery store on January 8, killing six people, including a federal judge, and wounding 13 others. He is expected to face additional federal and state charges.

The so-called super storm scenario prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey says such super storm has potential to move water of almost 50 Mississippi rivers into the Gulf of Mexico, causing massive floods and devastation in California.

The new sign Ophiuchus will cover those born between Nov. 29 and Dec. 17 while Sagittarius will move into the 13th position covering from Dec. 17 to Jan. 20.

Queensland premier Anna Bligh on Thursday said the reconstruction of Queensland following the devastation of raging flood waters meant a huge task of post war proportions.

Amid reports of looting in Brisbane and Ipswitch due to heavy floods, Police Minister Neil Roberts and Commissioner Bob Atkinson have announced Operation Safeguard to deploy 100 policemen from Brisbane and another 100-member squad drawn from interstate police services on Thursday.

For the third year in a row, the state of Maryland emerged on top when the scores in all six categories that make up the Quality Counts framework were aggregated.

Arnold Fields, who was in-charge of investigating corruption from the United States, has resigned.

J.K. Rowling, author of Harry Potter series was cleared of plagiarism charges filed by Paul Allen, trustee of late author Adrian Jacob's estate in a landmark judgment on Thursday.

The Mega Millions lottery announced the final winning numbers 4, 8, 15, 25, 47 and 42 and the winners are from Idaho and Washington state, triggering a joke on the online that the shoe winners may be cursed now. The jackpot money of $355 million will be shared by two persons from Idaho and Washington state.

In an annual survey conducted by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, India for the first time topped the list as the most attractive destination, overtaking China.

Queensland in Australia, submerged in severe floods, became the first news of natural disaster in the New Year with 200,000 people and 22 towns affected. On Sunday, one woman drowned while crossing a causeway, while the Queensland Bureau of Meteorology has warned that another strong thunderstorm in the night.

For 106 years, Times Square has been the center of worldwide attention on New Year's Eve, ever since the owners of One Times Square began Ball Lowering celebration in 1907, and this tradition is now a universal symbol of welcoming the New Year.

Over one million people each year throng the streets of Times Square in New York City on Dec. 31 to watch the falling Ball to celebrate the passage of another year and welcome 2011.

The new year will also herald a new six-digit password for all credit card holders in India known as One-Time Password (OTP).

Bible.is, the audio-based Bible app created by Faith Comes By Hearing, has reached one million downloads in 5 months

Exposure to fluoride may lower children's intelligence, says a study pre-published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a publication of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Fluoride is added to 70 percent of U.S. public drinking water supplies.

India's advanced GSAT-5P communication satellite launched on Saturday disappeared in plumes of smoke within seconds after blastoff.

The United Nations' relief program for the flood-ravaged and conflict-ridden northwestern town of Kahr in Bajaur tribal region turned into a bloodbath when a suicide attacker blew up a bomb when more than 1,000 people gathered on Saturday morning to receive free ration.

In the midst of snow-related flight cancellations in Europe, private jets are now surging their bookings with quick alternative plans providing succour to stranded but wealthy passengers. Since the week leading up to Christmas is crucial for many stranded company executives in Europe who wish to return home

Aerojet, a GenCorp company which provided spacecraft thrusters, is upbeat as spacecraft Voyager 1 has reached a point at the edge of our solar system where outward motion of solar wind is absent.

With Wikileaks all set to unravel the secret documents or reports by governments on Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), New Zealand has decided to go ahead and make public some 2,000 pages of secret UFO files dating from 1954 to 2009.

A massive earthquake measuring 6.5 magnitude on Richter scale hit Hosseinabad village of Fahraj township in Kerman province at 22:12 local time on Monday night, killing at least seven people and injuring hundreds. The quake jolted the country a day before Yalda, the longest night of the year when Iranians celebrate throughout the night with families and friends, usually visiting parental homes.

Oklahoma has executed John David Duty, 58, on Thursday keeping alive its capital punishment policy. The difference this time was that it used for the first time a drug called pentobarbital, a sedative that is used as euthanasia for animals.

Photographer Thomas Hawk suggested Bartz to settle for a salary of $1 a year for her failure to catch up with rivals like Google, Apple and Microsoft. Yet, he has asked her to use Flickr more as a social networking tool like Facebook.

GENTAG, Inc. and its partners have come out with a new disposable wireless diagnostic test platform for consumer cell phones. The technology, based on immunoassays, can test for pregnancy, fertility, pathogens, AIDS, drugs, allergens and even certain types of cancers.

A recent study shows that incorporating almonds into your diet can help treat and possibly prevent type 2 diabetes, as well as cardiovascular disease.

Richard Holbrooke, 69, U.S. President Barack Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, died on Monday while undergoing a surgery for a torn aorta.

Growing up in the city of Bethlehem, PA, Dino knows the importance of hard work and American pride. Bethlehem Steel Corp was once a gem of American industry, having been so powerful that during World War II, its laborers churned out a Navy battleship in a single day.