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While the internet is always up and running in the US and Europe, very often people in Asia, Latin America and Easter Europe suffer outages. The richer the country, the maximum is the usage of Internet and vice versa, says a new study. It happens because internet goes to ‘sleep’ more like human or living creatures in those parts of ...

Belgium will face the United States in a FIFA World Cup warm-up on 12 June, the opening day of the 2014 finals in Brazil. The friendly will be staged behind closed doors in Sao Paulo. “It will be a kind of training session for each side,” the Belgian football federation said on Friday. The USA begin their World Cup campaign ...

Nina Davuluri, the first Indian American to be crowned Miss USA, will lead the women’s forum session and the “Be Fit Be Cool’ walkathon at the 32nd annual convention of Indian-origin physicians. Over 2,000 physicians and their families are expected to attend the annual convention of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), the largest ethnic association of ...

Louisiana’s Indian-American Governor Bobby Jindal, who had once warned his own Republican party to stop being the “stupid party”, says President Barack Obama’s Democrats now need to heed that advice. Jindal, former head of the Republican Governor’s Association who is said to be mulling a 2016 presidential run, gave the advice in a CNN OpEd in the wake of the ...

A new round of twister tornadoes ripped through South US killing five people in Mississippi and Alabama a day after another storm left a trail of destruction in Arkansas. At least 15 people were killed by Sunday’s storms in Arkansas where emergency officials searched for survivors in the debris left by a powerful tornado that carved in 80-mile path of ...

Police in the US state of Utah Sunday arrested a 39-year-old woman for killing her seven infants over a 10-year period, the media reported. Megan Huntsman was arrested from her Pleasant Grove home and booked on murder charges, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. Huntsman’s ex-husband, who is believed to be the father of the infants, tipped off police Saturday and ...

By Deepak Chitnis WASHINGTON, DC: Starting this Fall, the historic Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC will unveil a brand-new exhibition in its Museum of Natural History that focuses exclusively on the history and culture of Indian immigrants in the United States. The  exhibition, “Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation,” which has been in the works since 2007, will be ...

The recent Bollywood movie ‘Zindagi na Milegi Dobara’ has not only let Indians get more interested in Spain as a travel destination, but also get to know the festival of tomatoes – La Tomatina. There are many other wacky festivals around the world and Hotels.com has put together some of the unusual events that guarantee an unforgettable holiday. The Tomatina ...