Bangladesh: Court Orders to Seize the Controversial Textbook

Published By Lynn On Tuesday, January 31st 2012. Under Politics Tags: Bangladesh, Khaleda Zia, Sheikh Hasina Wajid, TextBooks

According to a Bangladeshi state prosecutor on Monday, the country’s court has announced the seizure the millions of copies of a school textbook after a dispute over the credit for the freedom struggle of the country in 1971.The high court in the capital, Dhaka, has given the instruction to police ... Read More

No More Megaupload Content from Next Week

Published By Lynn On Tuesday, January 31st 2012. Under Business Tags: Copyrights Infringement, DATA, Deleted, Kim Dotcom, MegaUpload

According to the reports from the Associated Press, the data of Megaupload could be removed as soon as February 2.In order to store the data of its users the file sharing website hired outside companies like Cogent Communications Group Inc. and Carpathia Hosting Inc. As all the assets of Megauplaod ... Read More

45 Relics Returned to Iraq

Published By Lynn On Tuesday, January 31st 2012. Under World Tags: archeological sites, artifacts, Assyrian palace, auctions, Canada, Iraq, Mesopotamia, Museums, National Museum of Iraq, relics, Sumerian, UK, US

German authorities on Monday reported that they returned 45 historic artifacts to Iraq, among which a 6,500-year-old Sumerian gold jar, the head of a Sumerian battle axe and a stone from an Assyrian palace.The media reported that all of these returned relics were among thousands stolen from Iraq’s museums and ... Read More

Novel Study: US Scientists Shift On Brain Speech Center

Published By Lynn On Tuesday, January 31st 2012. Under Science Tags: brain, Georgetown University Medical Center, GERMAN, Iain DeWitt, Josef Rauschecker, magnetic resonance imaging, methodology, MRI, neurologist, PET, PNAS, positron emission tomography, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Wernicke’s area

U.S. researchers, in a new study, said that the part of the brain used for speech processing, is in a different location than originally believed, adding that they will need a rewrite of medical texts.Wernicke’s area, which is believed to involve the understanding of written and spoken language, is named ... Read More

Roche’s Skin Cancer Drug Receives Green Signal By FDA

Published By Lynn On Tuesday, January 31st 2012. Under Health Tags: basal cell carcinoma, Curis Inc, Erivedge, Roche pharmaceutical, Skin Cancer, Surgery, treatment, US Food and Drug Administration, USFDA, vismodegib

On Monday, the U.S. federal regulators approved a pill to treat an advanced form of the most common type of skin cancer, which is known as basal cell carcinoma.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Roche’s drug, named “Erivedge”, which was co-developed by Curis Inc. for use by adults whose ... Read More