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Indian women cricket team, inspired by the World test no. 1 Indian men's cricket team, has defeated the world champion England by 35 runs in the first ODI at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore on Friday.

Indian skipper Jhulan Goswami won the toss and opted to bat first. India scored 199 runs for loss of five wickets in their allotted 50 overs. Priyanka Roy was top scorer for India who scored 69 runs while Mithali Raj contributed 62 runs with the bat.

According to a presentation on Friday at an annual US gathering of scientists, researchers at 17 US medical centers plan to start using a hormone to treat serious brain injuries on a trial basis.

A steroid hormone involved in the female menstrual cycle and pregnancy, progesterone have been shown to cut the death rate from traumatic brain injury (TBI) in half.

India Team has started its campaign with a gold medal in the Common Wealth Shooting Championship (CWSC) as Gagan Narang and PT Raghunath finished at the first position in the 10m air rifle pair event on Friday. Gagan carded 599 points out of 600 while Raghunath scored 594 to lead India to their first gold medal on the opening day of the tournament at the Tughlakabad Range in New Delhi.

Indian pair scored a total of 1193 followed by England with 1185 points while Bangladesh bagged bronze medal.

After inflation for January came in lower than expected despite the US recovery from recession, US stocks posted mild gains at the end of a strong week on Friday.

According to the Labour Department, consumer prices climbed 0.2 percent. Core prices, which exclude more volatile food and energy costs, surprisingly dropped 0.1 per cent, marking the first monthly decline in the core rate since 1982.

Seven years after suspending its voting rights over a failure to pay back loans, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday elected to make Zimbabwe a full voting member.

But still Zimbabwe will be given only a limited access to the IMF's lending facilities. The impoverished African country still owes the IMF about $140 million though Zimbabwe paid back some of its outstanding loans in 2006.

A review of studies by British researchers shows that vitamin D could reduce heart disease and diabetes.

Middle-aged and elderly people with high levels of vitamin D reduced their chances of developing cardiometabolic disorders such as heart disease or diabetes by 43 percent, found researchers at Warwick Medical School in Coventry, England.