Among the items found on the students' computers include a video encouraging martyrdom, a US military guide giving instructions on how to make explosive devices and a suicide bombing manual.
The modern heroes find themselves in the illustrious company of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Henry Ford, Benjamin Franklin, John D Rockefeller, Thomas Edison and Michael Dell.
Scientists from the Peninsula Medical School in Exeter and the University of Oxford, who conducted the study, say that people with two copies of the FTO gene variant have a 70 per cent higher risk of being obese than those without it.
Spraying them directly onto a person creates the ability to carry out different tests at the same time, for example muscle movement and pulse rate, thereby allowing a complete picture of the patient's condition to be built up quickly.
An Indian-American post-colonial theorist, who describes herself as a 'para-disciplinary, ethical philosopher,' has been appointed to the highest faculty rank at Columbia University, the school announced on Friday.
Folate is one of the most vital nutrients for the human body's growth and development, which is why folate-rich diets are typically suggested for women planning a pregnancy or who are pregnant.
According to Andrew Coates of the Mullard Space Science Lab, the impactors would represent the first time there had been a detailed study of the Moon's sub-surface.
A University of Washington economic geologist has said that the world is not running out of oil or other mineral resources as is widely believed.
Muhammad Yunus is the 66-year-old Bangladeshi behind the Grameen Movement micro-banking system.
The Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to Edmund S. Phelps of the United States, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Monday.
The recall of faulty batteries present in more than 4 million Dell notebooks is turning out to be as famous as the global PC giant itself on the world wide Web.\n\n
While the transition from book to big screen is hasty, the level of drama it generates is more lavish and breathtaking than its comparatively austere source.
The dispute over the mosque near Ground Zero in New York is not a battle over "real estate" but it will have an impact on Islam in America, according to Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who is the main developer of the controversial Islamic Centre.
Dr Dhar has been granted bail but has been banned from examining patients on her own.
The two threw more than 360,000 letters and parcels into a dumping ground and earned over one million pounds each by saving the costs of delivering them.
How did how a reluctant, chain-smoking, beer-swigging footballer captain the greatest football nation in the world?
Australia's newspapers were unanimous in demanding changes be made after Australia ended their 16-year hold on the Ashes
Thirty years after the massacre at Tiananmen Square, coerced collective amnesia envelops the Chinese nation about that horrific event. Claude Arpi glances back at how the student uprising could have changed the Middle Kingdom forever had the Chinese Communist party not traveled on the route of martial law.
This week's collection of stories that prove we live in a truly mad, mad world
The spectacular Milky Way over the picturesque Bavarian mountain, Herzogstand, the remarkable Horsehead Nebula and the Flame Nebula, a vast cloud of gas and dust where new stars are being born; the Royal Observatory's Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2019 has once more received thousands of outstanding images. The competition, which is run by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, sponsored by Insight Investment and in association with BBC Sky at Night Magazine, is now in its eleventh year and has broken the record number of entries once more, receiving over 4,600 entries from enthusiastic amateurs and professional photographers, taken from 90 countries across the globe. The winners will be announced on September 12, and an exhibition of the winning images from the past years of the contest will be on show at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich from September 13.
'This is a tragedy that must be stopped.'
The talented actress will play a depressed, self-harming wife in Life Isn't All Ha Ha, Hee Hee.
Andrew Witty, chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the world's second-largest drug company, was in India this week as part of the dedication of an albandazole manufacturing facility at Nashik to the World Health Organization (WHO)'s global programme to eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis.
Rajneesh Gupta presents all the fascinating career numbers of players in the World Cup.
After extending billions of dollars to protect themselves from the economic turmoil, the US moved to arrest the trend of exorbitant pay among the nation's big entities like Citigroup, Bank of America and American International Group.
Andrew Veal, 25, was apparently distraught over President George Bush's re-election, said police.
An Australian biomechanics expert says Tendulkar will have to be careful of when he returns to cricket.
Governor Jeb Bush estimated the damage caused by hurricane Charley at over $ 15 billion.
Investigators found that a company in Pakistan was prepared to sell everything needed to make a nuclear bomb -- plans, equipment and fuel -- for $50 million, a report said.
Angus Deaton's Nobel Prize should spark off more research on the measurement and usefulness of poverty percentages.
'I have had a US passport for 26 years. I have a Hindu name. But none of that matters it seems.' 'Today I have also become an immigrant from Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Sudan and Syria.'Today I am Changez Khan and Rizwan Khan.' 'All of us brown people have been put in the same boat by Trump,' says Aseem Chhabra.
For at least 13 years, big and small investors alike turned over their money to Paul Greenwood and Stephen Walsh, two New York money managers, in the belief that an "enhanced equity index" strategy was reaping them profits.
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