A recent survey has suggested that even highly intelligent students admitted in the prestigious Cambridge are prone to copy and submit essays they find on Google.

An anonymous online poll conducted by the student newspaper Varsity participated by more than 1,000 students, and the results showed that 49% of undergraduates, at some point of their university career, submit someone else's report as their own. Out of this only 5% admitted that they had been caught while doing this.

London, Nov 2 : Being sensitive can improve kids’ exam results, University of Central Lancashire researchers have found.

According to boffins, skills in "emotional intelligence" can make a difference of an entire grade, i. e. from B to A.

The study’s scientists reckon that the reason behind the findings could be that emotional intelligence allows pupils to manage stress more easily and also to understand the long term consequences of doing well at school.

The latest Obama vs McCain CO Polls show that Barack Obama is holding a respectable lead over John McCain.

Los Angeles - LeBron James now has a clear understanding of why the New Orleans Hornets signed James Posey in the off season.

Posey sparked a fourth-quarter surge with a strip of James and a dunk Saturday night as the New Orleans Hornets pulled away from the Cleveland Cavaliers for a 104-92 victory in an early season match-up of championship contenders.

David West scored 25 points, and Chris Paul added 24 and 15 assists for the Hornets (3-0), who limited James to 15 points and captured their home opener after road wins over Golden State and Phoenix.

Wellington  - New Zealand veterans of the 1944 Normandy landings, which were a turning point in World War II, vowed Sunday to keep going despite their international organization closing down because too many members have died.

Thirty representatives of veterans from Britain, France, Canada, the United States and New Zealand who took part in the assault on France's northern coast - which remains the largest amphibious military operation ever attempted - held a commemorative service Sunday in Wellington.

The international Normandy Veterans Association (NVA) has decided its membership is falling too fast to continue past the 65th anniversary of the landings in June, said David Christison, president of the New Zealand branch.

India's first unmanned moon mission, Chandrayaan-1 has been making headlines for past few days. And now, the spacecraft has flashed down two beautiful pictures of the Earth it took on 29th October. The Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC) installed on board the spacecraft clicked these pictures after it was switched on. The TMC took the first picture on 29th October at 8 a.m. from a height of 9,000 km, which displays the northern coast of Australia. The second picture shows the southern coast of Australia, which was taken at 12:30 p.m. from a height of 70,000 km.