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Washington, June 9 : Meditation could prove to be the ideal behavioural intervention to treat insomnia, according to a study.

The new findings suggest that while practicing meditation, patients experienced improvements in subjective sleep quality and sleep diary parameters.

Meditation even improved sleep latency, total sleep time, total wake time, wake after sleep onset, sleep efficiency, sleep quality, and depression in patients.

London, June 9 : Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man who created the World Wide Web, insists that the Internet holds the potential to fight climate change and incurable diseases in future.

Speaking in New York after receiving lifetime achievement prize at the Webby awards, Berners-Lee said that the increasing mass of online information could help experts spot breakthroughs in the battles against illnesses like cancer and Alzheimer''s, as well as global warming.

Raipur, June 9 : Nine Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were injured in a landmine blast triggered by Naxalites in Chhattisgarh''''''''s Bijapur district on Tuesday.

New Delhi  - Indian equities rose 3 per cent in trading Tuesday, buoyed by positive economic growth estimates by the government.

The Bombay Stock Exchange's 30-share sensitive index Sensex, which lost 437.63 points Monday, rallied to gain 461 points.

The Sensex closed at 15,127, led by gains in realty, pharma and Information Technology stocks.

Similarly, the broader 50-share Nifty index of the National Stock Exchange rose by 121.05 points or 2.73 per cent end trade at 4,550.95.

London, Jun 9 : Late American actor David Carradine was dressed in fishnet stockings and a woman’s wig when he was found hanging in his Bangkok hotel room, say reports.

Besides the clothes he was wearing, there were also women’s red lingerie laid out on the bed, and an erotic photograph had been pinned to the wall, reports the Daily Star.

Even though his family suspected foul play, the new revelation has shocked them, as it seems to support claims made by the police that he accidentally killed himself while carrying out a kinky sex act.

London, Jun 9 : Troubled Brit singer Amy Winehouse is said to be interested in taking up nursing while in St Lucia, and in devoting her time to sick children and maternity clinics.

Winehouse, 25, will be working as a volunteer on the Caribbean island in a bid to control her own demons and comfort the seriously ill, and she will be delivering medicine and preparing meals for the sick.

“Amy is keen to look after children on the island through these community projects,” the Daily Star quoted Wino’s spokesman as saying.

The singer was inspired to help the children after her estranged husband Blake Fielder-Civil, 27, got another woman pregnant.