Melbourne, Nov 13: US lingerie firm Victoria''s Secret is being sued by dozens of women who claim their bras gave them painful rashes and permanent scarring.
Roberta Ritter, who describes herself as a long-time Victoria''s Secret shopper, complaint that she felt ‘utterly sick’ after wearing one of company’s bra.
"I had the welts ... very red, hot to the touch, extremely inflamed, blistery. It itched profusely. I couldn''t sleep, waking up itching. I was just utterly sick," ABC Online quoted Ritter, as saying.
The 37-year-old filed a lawsuit against the company on May 14 in relation to the Angels Secret Embrace and Very Sexy Extreme Me Push-Up bras she said she purchased.
Washington, Nov 13: Engineers at Northrop Grumman Corporation in the US have created a sunshield for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope that can withstand the severe cold and heat of space, a barrage of radiation and high-speed impacts from small space debris.
Any satellite that flies in the depths of space has to be able to withstand the rigors of space, including the icy cold or the intense heat and radiation of a solar flare.
China's drug regulator, the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), ordered the withdrawal of a hemorrhoid medicine over concerns that it might cause liver problems.
The Sichuan-based Vital Pharmaceutical Holdings Ltd. was ordered by the SFDA to stop producing and selling Zhixue capsules and asked to begin a nationwide recall Xinhua news agency reported. The recall came after 21 people around the country developed liver problems and 14 others reported adverse reactions to the medication in recent months, the agency reported.
New York, Nov. 13: New Yorkers were surprised recently to read a report in the New York Times that said that the war in Iraq has ended. An enthusiastic man was hawking the paper on W. 33rd St., just a few blocks south of the Times headquarters.
“Very special edition, New York Times!" he shouted. "IRAQ WAR ENDS," read the lead story headline, while other pieces included an apology from Condoleezza Rice for lies about WMDs and the indictment of President Bush for high treason.
It turned out to be a prank paper, but the stunt took six months in the making, with 1.2 million copies printed.
New Delhi, Nov 13: Decline in the prices of fuel and manufactured goods has led to the fall in the wholesale price index rate to 8.98 per cent for the week ended November 1.
Washington, Nov 13: A new study has suggested that generating wind power at sea may alter ocean currents and marine ecosystems, bringing nutrient-rich waters up from the depths, which marine life can thrive on.
Extracting energy from wind changes regional air currents, which can in turn affect how the nearby ocean circulates, Goran Brostrom of the Norwegian Meteorological Institute in Oslo, told Discovery News.
Brostrom has shown in a model that winds swirling at five to 10 meters per second (11 to 22 miles per hour) downwind of large farms are uneven.
As they blow over the ocean they can roil the waters, causing upwelling.
Washington, Nov 13: Engineers at Northrop Grumman Corporation in the US have created a sunshield for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope that can withstand the severe cold and heat of space, a barrage of radiation and high-speed impacts from small space debris.
China's drug regulator, the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), ordered the withdrawal of a hemorrhoid medicine over concerns that it might cause liver problems.
