One cold evening I went to New Delhi Railway station to reserve my ticket for Kolkata. It was too cold, foggy weather; I could not stand outside. I parked my bike near the station counter and I tried to go inside the ticket counter.

Suddenly, I saw a man, trying to get relief from the cold with a torn blanket, on the footpath. He had no hands, no legs, and he was

Pickled beets and hard-boiled eggs soaked in beet juice are staples on Dingus Day, but the health benefits of beets are never considered when consuming these staples with a lager of beer. People often ignore beets as health foods but they contain vital vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients in both the leaves and tuber. Members of the beet family include

An analysis of artifacts found in a South African cave reveals that humans were making tools, beads, and even poison some 20,000 years earlier than previously thought.

The late Stone Age may have had an earlier start in Africa than previously thought — by some 20,000 years.

A new analysis of artifacts from a cave in South Africa reveals

Jonah Lehrer resigned from the New Yorker Monday after Tablet Magazine revealed that he fabricated Bob Dylan quotes in his book, "Imagine: How Creativity Works."

The seemingly prodigious young writer drew criticism last month when he admittedly recycled his own writing in blog posts for the New Yorker, including lines taken almost verbatim from previously published Wall Street Journal essays.

Now, Michael C. Moynihan, a writer for the Jewish magazine Tablet, revealed that Lehrer concocted Bob Dylan quotes and later lied to Moynihan because he "panicked."

Thinking outside the box might not be as easy as it sounds, but there are ways to get your innovation engines revving, says Harvard Business Review.

The Management Tip of the Day offers quick, practical management tips and ideas from Harvard Business Review and HBR.org (www.hbr.org). Any opinions expressed are not endorsed by Reuters.

"To innovate, you need to think differently. If you find yourself struggling to get something started or you're stuck in the middle of a project, try to get into a new frame of mind:

If you want an addition to your diet that's both delicious and nutritious, check out the health benefits of raspberries. Raspberries like many other colorful fruits and vegetables and packed with antioxidants and powerful phytonutrients to help boost your body's immune system and bring good health. Raspberries also help you in a number of other ways.

The art of writing can be reduced to a few simple rules. I share them with you now.

Rule No. 1: Show and Tell. Most people say, “Show, don’t tell,” but I stand by Show and Tell, because when writers put their work out into the world, they’re like kids bringing their broken unicorns and chewed-up teddy bears into class in the sad hope that

A team led by an AI specialist in Spain declares, shockingly, that pop music is becoming increasingly noisy and homogenized.

It isn't true until the numbers say so.

That is the mantra of the modern world.

So I bring you news that the figures have been counted and the declaration has been made by unimpeachable scientists: pop songs are becoming noisier and increasingly homogenized.

Have a habit of skipping meals? A new study shows that people who sit down to eat after an overnight fast are more likely to ignore protein, fats and vegetables and head straight for high-calorie carbohydrates and starches first.

The news may not come as a surprise to long-term dieters, or anyone

A nun asked her class to write notes to God.
Here are some of the notes the children handed in:

Dear God:
I didn't think orange went with purple until I saw the sunset You made on Tuesday. That was cool.

Dear God:
Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don't You just keep the ones You have?

Dear God:
Maybe Cain and Abel would not have killed each other so much if they had their own rooms. That's what my Mom did for me and my brother.

The health benefits of cauliflower are huge. Even though this white delight looks like a vegetable, you're really eating the flower of the plant, hence the name. In old Britain, they called the vegetable cole florye, which meant flowered cabbage. It would certainly make a healthy gift if you sent it instead of roses on Valentine's Day but it isn't highly recommended.

Sometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is really important. We may fail to say hello, please, thank you, congratulate someone on something wonderful that has happened to them, give a compliment, or just do something nice for no reason.

Charles Plumb, a US Naval Academy graduate, was a jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent 6 years in a communist prison. He survived the ordeal and now lectures on lessons learned from that experience.

One day, when Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant, a man at another table came up and said, "You're Plumb! You flew jet

Nearly half a century ago, when Elvis Presley was filming “Harum Scarum” and “Help!” was on the charts, a moody, father-haunted, yet uncannily charismatic Shore rat named Bruce Springsteen was building a small reputation around central Jersey as a guitar player in a band called the Castiles. The band was named for the lead singer’s favorite brand of soap. Its members were from Freehold, an industrial town

Divers have discovered a World War II-era German submarine nearly 70 years after it sank under withering U.S. attack in waters off Nantucket.

The U-550 was found Monday by a privately funded group organized by New Jersey lawyer Joe Mazraani. It was the second trip in two years to the site by the team, some of whom had been searching for the lost U-boat for two decades.

God has a way of allowing us to be in the right place at the right time.

I was walking down a dimly lit street late one evening when I heard muffled screams coming from behind a clump of bushes. Alarmed, I slowed down to listen, and panicked when I realized that what I was hearing were the unmistakable sounds of a struggle: heavy grunting, frantic scuffling, and tearing of fabric. Only yards from where I stood, a woman was being attacked.

Should I get involved? I was frightened for my own safety, and cursed myself for having suddenly decided to take a new route home that night. What if I became another statistic? Shouldn't I just run to the nearest phone and call the police?

The early Chinese knew the health benefits of peaches clear back in the tenth century. While they often used the pit for medication, they also had a saying, "longevity peach," meaning the peach extended your life. Modern science finds that Chinese medicine is often right on mark and this time is no different.

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Captured at a US theater, a brand new standee/banner for Sam Mendes' new Bond film, Skyfall has been spotted. Featuring Bond himself, Daniel Craig, check it out after the jump!
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On a steamy morning last week Mark Dimunation, the chief of the rare book and special collections division at the Library of Congress, was in a windowless basement room here at the University of Virginia, leading a dozen people in a bibliophile’s version of the wave.

He lined up the group and handed each person a sheet of copier paper with a syllable written on it. After a few halting practice

Attention Mac users, Apple has confirmed that the next major version of its Mac operating system OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion will go on sale tomorrow morning.

The news was revealed Tuesday in Apple's third-fiscal-quarter earnings release, where Cupertino reported sales of 26 million iPhones and 17 million iPads.

"We're thrilled with record sales of 17 million iPads in the June quarter," Apple CEO Tim Cook, was quoted in the release. "We've also just updated the entire MacBook

The health benefits of Acai may be exaggerated or may be true, no one will know for sure until there are further studies done on the fruit. Like any fruit, it's certainly good for you and contains valuable nutrients required for a healthy body. However, this small grape sized berry has held celebrity status since it appeared on the Oprah show

My mother used to ask me what is the most important part of the body? Through the years I would take a guess at what I thought was the correct answer.

When I was younger, I thought sound was very important to us as humans, so I said, "My ears, Mommy."

She said, "No. Many people are deaf. But you keep thinking about it and I will ask you again soon."

Several years passed before she asked me again. Since making my first attempt, I had contemplated the correct answer.

So this time I told her, "Mommy, sight is very important to everybody, so it must be our eyes."

The health benefits of pineapple include all the ones you'd expect from fresh fruit and vegetables and a few more. It's high in vitamin C and contains an abundance of minerals and other vitamins. Pineapple is good for your general health but also for specific health needs. The trace minerals in the pineapple, enzymes and photonutrients make it an important addition for people fighting colds, osteoporosis, digestion problems, arthritis, macular degeneration and dental problems.

Bromelain is one reason for the health benefits of pineapple. It comes from the stem and core of the fruit and has a variety of healthy components, among which is the enzyme, which digests protein, called cysteine proteinases. While this substance helps the digestive tract, other components of the bromelain also are beneficial for the body.

I was only six years old when a stroke struck my father, who was a church priest. To my mother, a peasant with eight children, the world seemed to have ended that day. Little as I was and seventh born in a family of eight, I set my mind to be different. Five of my sisters and my brother dropped out of school and I was the first child to go to high school.

When I completed high school, I approached one of my relatives to sponsor me for a degree. I was beside myself with joy; little did I know that his help was for a very short time and that suffering would set in soon.

Apple’s iPhone 5 will shrink the classic 30-pin connector and relocate its headphone jack to the bottom of the device, reports confirmed today.

Reuters confirmed reports that Apple is indeed scrapping its 30-pin connecter for a smaller connecter dock in an effort to further update its design and make room for the headphone jack, which will make its way to the bottom of the iPhone, compared to its current position on the top left corner.

A story tells of a merchant in a small town who had identical twin sons. The boys worked for their father in the department store he owned and, when he died, they took over the store.

Everything went well until the day a dollar bill disappeared. One of the brothers had left the bill on the cash register and walked outside with a customer. When he returned, the money was gone.

Scientific studies now show that the lowly pea lives up to its name. Dr. Aluka studied the effect of pea protein hydrolysate from the yellow garden pea on rats with a severe form of chronic kidney disease, polycystic kidney disease, and found that it increased their urine production by approximately 30 percent. The increased production combined with the protein they received lowered their blood pressure by 20

Over time have you ever watched anything grow; perhaps a plant, tree or even a weed? Today I would like to share something with you. In the process we call life, each of us has different ways of trying to understand it. Please allow me share a little of mine with you.

I see my life as a rose garden. It, as among roses, has been seasonal with many beautiful roses in its past. It seems, with each passing year, each season has brought a wonderful variety of new roses. Of course as they grew and multiplied; so did the thorns.

Steve and I have been best friends for about twenty years now. Like most people, we've had our ups and downs over the years. Despite moving to different areas, we've still kept in touch. In fact, I really like that about our friendship. No matter what happens, we'll always keep in touch and support each other. We're not really the kind of best

Author Stephen Covey, whose "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" sold more than 20 million copies, died Monday at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, a hospital spokeswoman said. He was 79.

Covey's family issued a statement, reported by CNN affiliate KSL, saying he died from residual effects of an April bicycle accident.

A man meets a guru in the road. The man asks the guru, "Which way is success?"

The berobed, bearded sage speaks not, but points to a place off in the distance.

The man, thrilled by the prospect of quick and easy success, rushes off in the appropriate direction. Suddenly, there comes a loud "SPLAT." Eventually, the man limps back, tattered and stunned, assuming he must have misinterpreted the message. He repeats his question to the guru, who again points silently in the same direction.

No matter how many vitamins you take, you still won't receive all the health benefits of spinach. That's because spinach contains more health giving elements than vitamins and minerals, it has other phytonutrients not contained in multiple vitamins. In fact, there are at least 14 different flavonoids contained in the leafy green vegetable that can help the body in a number of ways.

Neil Gaiman and J.H. Williams III will tell the "one tale still untold" from the Sandman Library.

When it comes to modern comic books, the conversation will inevitably turn to Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, which stands alongside Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns in terms of literary and critical acclaim. Largely considered to be Vertigo Comics' first flagship title, the series introduced readers to Morpheus, the living personification of dreams, as he interacted with ordinary humans, faeries, angels,

She had been shopping with her Mom in Wal-Mart. She must have been 6 years old, this beautiful brown haired, freckle-faced image of innocence. It was pouring outside. The kind of rain that gushes over the tops of rain gutters, so much in a hurry to hit the earth, it had no time to

Experience everything. Ask questions; ask for the truth and the reality that comes with it, through honesty is the only way you will get to know a person and be able to step past the boundaries that we all put up.

Learn from peoples mistakes, but more importantly know when it is ok to make your own, because no one will do everything right. Never hold back, even if you think you are

Prolific Hollywood producer Richard Zanuck has died aged 77, suffering a heart attack at his Beverley Hills home.

Dick Zanuck, as most people called him, was best known for his work on films such as The Sound of Music, Driving Miss Daisy and Jaws.

Son of Hollywood royalty, he became the youngest studio head in history when he took over 20th Century Fox aged 28.

His friend Steven Spielberg called him a "cornerstone of the film industry".

The health benefits of celery are more than just an aid for losing weight or quitting smoking. Celery contains over 40 percent of the required daily amount of vitamin K and almost 15 percent of the necessary vitamin C for the day. However, celery has other benefits besides containing vitamins and minerals.

The 36-year-old son of Sylvester Stallone was found dead Friday, leaving the actor grief-stricken, his publicist said.
Authorities were investigating Sage Stallone's death, but details were not immediately available.

"Sylvester Stallone is devastated and grief-stricken over the sudden loss of his son," publicist Michelle Bega said in a statement. "His compassion and thoughts are with Sage's mother, Sasha."

Los Angeles police said they were dispatched to investigate a death at a home on Mulholland Terrace around 2:15 p.m. but could not confirm the person's identity or offer details.

Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, was a French aristocrat with an enormous waxed mustache that hung on his face like a rogue accent mark. In 1914, the baron announced that he had designed a symbol for the 20th anniversary of the Games. “This,

Many of us have the habit of not paying attention to what we encounter on a daily basis. This is a picture of a person that you have seen hundreds of time wearing an Elvis Presley wig. Can you identify the person?

Habits stabilize our behavior.  They allow us to act efficiently and concentrate on the tasks we choose to focus on.  If you had to ponder which shoe to put on first when you got out of bed, then how to brush

The health benefits of broccoli along with the easy availiability of this super vegetable make it one of our most popular vegetables.

Throughout the year, broccoli is one of the easiest foods to locate, as most supermarkets across the United States offer a hearty supply of the nutrient-rich vegetable.

While broccoli has gotten a bad reputation as being one of the most dreaded vegetables on the dinner plate for a child,

I woke up early today, excited over all I get to do before the clock strikes midnight.

I have responsibilities to fulfill today.

I am important.

My job is to choose what kind of day I am going to have.

Today I can complain because the weather is rainy
or I can be thankful that the grass is getting watered for free.

This is the golden anniversary of “Dr. No,” the film that introduced moviegoers to the most famous spy of them all: James Bond of her majesty’s secret service. To mark the anniversary, we’ll be running edited excerpts from Bill Desowitz’s just-released ”James Bond Unmasked,” which features interviews with all six Bond actors.

This is the golden anniversary of “Dr. No,” the film that introduced moviegoers to the most famous spy of them all: James Bond of her majesty’s secret service. To mark the anniversary we’ll be running excerpts from Bill Desowitz’s just-released ”James Bond Unmasked,” which features interviews with all six Bond actors.

Sanal Edamaruku faces a Catholic backlash after insisting that the "holy" water dripping from a statue of Christ in Mumbai, India, came from a leaky drain. Edamaruku is the founder and president of Rationalist International, president of the Indian Rationalist Association, and honorary associate of the U.K. Rationalist Association.

There's a lot of brown in Afghanistan, says one aggrieved soldier, but the U.S. Army's camo print contains not a speck. Standard-issue uniforms come instead in a pixelated marble of gray and khaki, as if they were made to blend into a gravel pit or a slice of Valdeon cheese. The problematic design, called the Universal Camouflage Pattern (or UCP), was released in

(Reuters) - Men have a greater number of knee ligament injuries than women, despite research suggesting that women's knees are more prone to anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears and surgeries to fix them, according to a Swedish study.

The report, published in the American Journal of Sports medicine, counted the injuries across the entire Swedish population, not just among players of particular sports or in certain regions.

The health benefits of corn have been highly underrated in past studies. This true American food now shows to have far more antioxidants than we once thought. Phytonutrients in corn exist primarily as bound phenolics. That means they don't absorb rapidly in the bloodstream but require the bacteria in the colon to break down to a useful form.

Ernest Borgnine, the Oscar-winning actor whose parts ranged from ominous heavies and humble everymen to the buffoonish skipper of a PT boat in the television series “McHale’s Navy,” has died. He was 95.

Borgnine spokesman Harry Flynn told the Associated Press the actor died yesterday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Flynn said kidney failure was the cause of death.

The burly, gap-toothed actor outlasted most leading men of his generation. He appeared in more than 110 films in his five- decade career, including “From

Sure, I doubt that any of you were too suprised to read that title, but skepticism about Christopher Nolan's conclusion to his Batman saga is a bit understandable.  Think about just how many great series had mediocre third acts.  X-Men 3.  Spider-Man 3.  The Godfather Part III.  Even Return of the Jedi wasn't above criticism.  But, the first round of critic reactions is out for The Dark Knight Rises, and the reactions are very positive.

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