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Those in the habit of calling in sick will need to improve their proficiency in the art of lying for bosses determined to check absenteeism in office are resorting to technology to crack down on employees pulling a sickie.

China on Thursday declined to comment on the safety of nuclear facilities located in the quake-hit south-west Sichuan province.

A shocking biography of Nobel laureate Sir V S Naipaul, exposing his cruelty towards his first wife, is tipped to win its author Britain's richest prize in non-fiction writing. 'The World is What it is.

Days before China's massive earthquake, hundreds of thousands of toads swarmed through a town near the epicentre, leading to a storm of speculation on whether there was a connection.

Four Indian workers of an oil company have been kidnapped in Sudan suspectedly by some local gang.
The four -- P K Abhilash, Mohd Aseeb Shaikh, Biplab Biswas and Surjeet Singh -- were abducted on Tuesday evening in oil-rich Heglig area in southern Sudan.

Fast food and sedentary lifestyle are fast turning Britons obese, with the British population becoming the fattest people in Europe, a survey has shown.

global market for cancer drugs will grow twice as fast as that for all other pharmaceuticals as the developing world spends more on health care, a new report says.

The United States topped world competitiveness rankings for the 15th straight year, but its economy is showing the same signs of weakness that sank booming Japan in the early 1990s, according to an annual survey released on Thursday, which puts India at 29th place.

The Dalai Lama lashed out at China over its crackdown on protests in Tibet in March as he arrived in Germany on Thursday at the start of a tour of Western powers in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he understood the frustration of British teenaged girl Scarlett Kealing's mother Fiona Mackeown with police probe into her daughter's death and offered all possible help to her in her fight for justice.

A Malaysian opposition party's state headquarters was petrol-bombed overnight on Thursday, officials said, describing the attack as politically motivated.

Myanmar has moved tens of thousands of homeless cyclone survivors into government-run shelters, pushing them out of monasteries and schools, several Buddhist monks from the disaster zone said on Thursday.

Days after pulling out of the ruling coalition over the issue of deposed judges, former Pakistan premier and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has asked the countrymen to take to the streets for reinstatement of the justices sacked by President Pervez Musharraf.

India will offer five million dollars to China as assistance in relief activities in its Sichuan province devastated by a temblor which claimed nearly 15,000 lives.

Feng Shui master Raymond Lo is offering some explanations why China is off to a terrible start in 2008 -- the long anticipated year of the Beijing Olympics.

If your blood pressure is high, do not fret. Just breathe slowly, turn on some quiet, slow rhythmic music and watch your blood pressure tumble drastically.

Britain will get its first Asian woman Lord Mayor on Thursday when Ludhiana-born Manjula Sood will take over as the first citizen of the multicultural town of Leicester in the East Midlands.

A landmark study into child abuse by females suggests that many of them were themselves victims of sexual abuse as children.

China on Thursday deployed more air and manpower to speed up the rescue efforts in earthquake-battered southwestern areas as more than 27,000 people remain buried under rubble or missing after the worst natural disaster to hit the country in three decades.

Barack Obama secured the long sought-after endorsement of former rival John Edwards, a gesture aimed at solidifying support for the party's likely presidential nominee as Hillary Clinton refuses to abandon her long-shot candidacy.