Here’s something to wake you up. A new report of University of Queensland predicts that people are more likely to suffer heart failure in the winter season.

A team of researchers from the Departments of Clinical Pharmacology and Cardiology at the Royal Adelaide Hospital examined the seasonal differences in hospital admissions and deaths in 2961 patients with chronic heart failure in South Australia over the period July 1994 to June 2004.

London, Nov. 25 : Believe it or not, officers of a top security British jail drove 40 miles to a restaurant to buy 3,500 pounds worth of curry for Muslim inmates.

The incident took place after the Muslim prisoners’ complained that the meals being served in the jail were not tasty enough.

According to The Sun, more than 150 prisoners and 50 staff tucked into the beef madras and lamb rogan josh meals worth 18 pounds each.

The food was purchased from the Roti Food Bar in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. They were to celebrate Eid — the end of the Ramadan month of fasting.

London, Nov 25: New evidence has suggested that the earliest settlers in the Caribbean preferred to live on smaller islands, which challenges the assumption that large islands are more important than small ones in the history of human expansion and settlement.

According to a report in The Times, archaeologists had believed that since the settlement of the Caribbean chain, from Trinidad northwards and then westwards to Cuba, had taken place from the South American mainland, the larger islands would have been preferred because they were more like the continent that the voyagers had left.

Johannesburg - Zimbabwe's political rivals were due to hold talks in South Africa on Tuesday to try to resolve their months-long standoff over the formation of a unity government, but it was unclear whether the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) would participate.

MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai was meeting Tuesday morning with senior members of his party in Johannesburg to discuss their stance on the planned meeting with representatives of President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF.

Melbourne, November 25: Aussie tennis ace Mark Philippoussis was reportedly spotted courting an attractive blonde at a Melbourne dance party over the weekend, while his current girlfriend Siobhan Parekh was shopping in Sydney around the same time.

Those who saw the pair at the Live One Day dance party in Brighton on Sunday have revealed that Philippoussis was getting cozy with a peroxide pretty, while one Paddington shop-girl said that the sport star''s girlfriend was shopping in Sydney that time.

New Delhi - The captain and six crew members of a ship taken by Somali pirates returned home to India Tuesday after two months in captivity and called for a concerted effort to end piracy in the Gulf of Aden.

"It is a very serious issue," Captain Prabhat Goyal said. "The Gulf of Aden cannot be closed or kept at ransom because all of us, either on the east or west of it, will suffer. The route has huge economic proportions attached to it."