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Founder of hedge fund Third Point, Dan Loeb, recently called for removal of Dow Chemical Co. Chief Executive Officer Andrew Liveris. The news came few days after Third Point agreed on a merger with DuPont Co.

Loeb supports the deal, but he has raised a question in the letter sent to Dow’s board on Saturday about the timing of the deal, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Loeb raised a questioned on the timing of the deal which was just two days before the expiration of a standstill agreement between Dow and the hedge fund, said person who doesn’t want to be identified because the letter hasn’t been published. Loeb showed his concern saying that the merger might have rushed beat the expiry of the accord.

The famous American reality television series Big Ang star Angela ‘Big Ang’ Raiola’s cancer has returned. It was only a couple of months ago that Big Ang was declared cancer free.

Big Ang, 55, has to unfortunately deal with the brutal disease again. Her fans hope that she earlier fought the disease bravely and this time also she will pull through it successfully.

The doctors treating Big Ang were the first to find that her cancer has returned. Doctors found the reoccurrence of Big Ang’s cancer when she came for a routine checkup in the second week of December. Doctors immediately decided to break the news to Ang and her family, said TMZ.

Martin Shkreli, the bad boy of pharma who is also known as most hated man in the US, gives another reason to point fingers at him. In a video, Shkreli can be seen talking about a fatal brain condition. According to Shkreli, only three hundred individuals are with the disease.

Shkreli, who has bought a majority share in KaloBios Pharmaceuticals, gave the statement while announcing about a new drug. The 32-year-old co-founder of the hedge fund MSMB Capital Management said he has a new drug capable of treating the deadly disease. “But it’s hard to sell a drug for 300 people, to go through the process. You have to charge a lot per person to make it a viable product”, Shkreli added.

Pluto has been a mysterious a mysterious space object for astronomers since its discovery in 1930. Earlier, NASA released some close images of Pluto’s surface, but now the space agency has been providing an even closer look at the dwarf planet.

The United States space agency NASA has shared some close-up images of Pluto on Thursday showing an intricate pattern of pits on the dwarf Planet’s surface. The images were taken by New Horizons during its flyby in July.

The newly shared pictures on Thursday are of an intricate pattern of pits the plutoid’s surface. The space agency has also released a color picture of a variety of terrains captured by its New Horizons spacecraft during closest approach to the object in the Kuiper belt July 14.

The surveillance period of 166 people who were at high risk of being infected with Ebola virus has now ended. With the end of the mandatory period Liberia has taken a step forward to declare an end to the epidemic.

The recent news could be a sigh of relief for residents of Liberia. The country has been declared Ebola free twice, once in may and once in September, but surprisingly new cases of the lethal disease again showed up.

Liberia was one of the three countries that were badly hit by Ebola along with Sierra Leone and Guinea, said experts.

The people who were kept under surveillance were healthcare workers who were treating the last case that had cropped up, or were the family of the victim.

In the United States, around 1 million people are presently living with AIDS. The disease was identified in 1984 and till now it has claimed for around 35 million lives, which makes it one of the most lethal pandemics in history. The National AIDS Trust is asking people to rethink on negative stereotype and forget old traditions and believes about HIV. It wants people to develop positive thinking about AIDS or HIV.

Implementation of a series of treatments and care measures, such as antiretroviral therapy, the fatality rate of AIDS has gone down and the number of people dying from AIDS has also dropped. But reports have shown that one in six people infected with HIV are unaware of their infection.