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Chandra Bahadur is the fourth son, among six, of Belaram and Pingla Dangi. Chandra Bahadur claimed that he was not noticed to be the shortest man for living in the remotest region of the district ...

If Facebook raises money at a high-end valuation of $100 billion dollars, Zuckerberg's stock would be worth $28 billion. On top of his stock, last year Zuckerberg was paid $1.49 million

The risk of cerebrovascular disease, which affects the blood supply to the brain and may lead to strokes, was increased 1.5 times. Study leader Dr Christopher Clark, of the Peninsula College ...

"Nokia’s global handset shipments declined 8 percent annually to 113.5 million units in Q4 2011. Volumes were buoyed by the sales of Nokia’s low-end dual-SIM models in emerging markets like ...

Further studies are required to determine how long the contraceptive effect lasts and if ...

The company said laws around what content is legal to distribute differ from country to country, and the new system will allow it to remove tweets only for users in a specific area, rather than ...

’Interestingly there are several versions of the hardware in circulation, so it sounds like Apple hasn’t decided - or is keeping quiet about the finished product ...

The move allows the more adventurous to install any app of their choosing, not just those approved by Apple to appear on the App Store. For the technically minded the development opens up ...

"I would have preferred if this hadn't caused so much controversy, but it has happened and we can't change that ...

Many sites recommend vetting apps carefully to see what they will post, and creating lists of friends to 'share' certain updates with, rather than bombarding your whole ...

"Proponents of Sopa have characterised the opposition as being people who want to enable piracy or defend piracy ...

"I am enthusiastic about the appointment of Scott Thompson as Chief Executive Officer and his ability, along with the entire Yahoo! leadership team, to guide Yahoo! into an exciting and successful ...

"But that's not really the point. The point is the bill is so over broad and so badly written that it's going to impact all kinds of things that, you know ...

The pedestrian's ability to hear an oncoming train or car is masked by the sounds produced by the headphones…

The researchers suggested the governments and food industry could use red packaging on unhealthy foods as a deterrent, and could even use red colour in pubs to prevent people from ...