US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew on Friday urged the Congress to take swift action and raise the limit of borrowing to ensure confidence in the government’s capability to fund itself and make payments to its creditors.

Top US airline industry group Airlines for America has predicted a pickup in air passengers in summer this year.

As per the industry group’s prediction, nearly 209 million people will travel using country’s carriers starting June through August. The projected figure represents a growth of 1 per cent from the corresponding period of the previous year.

The court found that 58-year-old doctor Christine Daniel guilty on 11 counts including deceiving her patients. She was accused of wire fraud, tax evasion and witness tampering in September 2011.

A new study by the researchers at the University of Oxford in the UK has claimed that a gentle electrical stimulation can help in improving the maths skills and these were known to last for longer terms.

D-Wave Systems has announced about the launch of their new supercomputer, which is able to solve the complicated problems. It has been found that the novel supercomputer will be used to solve the problems at a quantum artificial intelligence lab at Ames Research Centre, NASA in California.

As per reports, the Conference Board of Canada has recently benchmarked provincial health systems. The same has been produced under the Canadian Alliance for Sustainable Health Care.

As the food allergies are increasing, the concerned officials are considering putting EpiPens in every restaurant in Hamilton. With the move, the city will become first in Canada to follow the initiative.

As per reports, the main yellow fever vaccination centre at the IGI Airport, New Delhi, has been reported to fall short of vaccine since last three months.

An Eighth Grade student of Bible Hill Junior High School received the grand award at the National Science Fair. Harishitaa Prithiviraj won the prize for her project `Divided We Fade, United We Cure.'

Australia is urgently calling for a ban on geoengineering the oceans with iron sulfate. It is a mechanism which came to importance in the previous year. The process followed an attempt to supplement salmon stocks off the Canadian Pacific coast by the addition of chemicals to ocean waters.