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U.S. President Barrack Obama is sending a high-level Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) team to India in a week to share “all details” of its probe into the plans and network of U.S. terror suspect David Headley and his Pakistani-Canadian associate Tahawwur Rana. National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan on Sunday said Mr. Obama told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that he was seized of the case related to Headley and Rana, Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives arrested on the charge of plotting attacks in India.

The ability to grow artificial meat in a lab could be essential to a stable future Four years ago, a paper from the Tissue Engineering journal outlined techniques that would allow large-scale meat production in a lab. Today we can view the fruits of their research, as scientists now confirm that they have managed to grow a form of meat in a laboratory for the first time. Researchers from The Netherlands extracted myoblast cells from the muscle of a live pig; cells that in the right environment would grow into muscle in order to repair damage to tissue, and incubated them in a nutrient-based solution derived from the blood of animal foetuses. The result was what has been described as “a soggy form of pork” which, due to laboratory rules hasn’t been sampled for taste yet. Sufficient “exercising” of said product could however yield a tougher, steak-like consistency. Professor of physiology at Eindhoven University Mark Post, lead scientist of the government-funded research, said “Yo

Voters in Switzerland on Sunday approved a referendum to ban the building of new minarets on mosques, which the right-wing parties that sponsored the referendum said are a symbol of Islamic law and segregation. More than 57 percent of voters and 22 of the country’s 26 cantons, or provinces, approved the referendum, reports the BBC.The Swiss government had opposed the ban, saying it would harm the country’s image, particularly in the Muslim world.Switzerland is home to some 400,000 Muslims and has just four minarets.Muslim leaders from around the world condemned the vote. Read Full News...