Google Inc's video-sharing site YouTube has announced that the number of unique users visiting it every month has cross 1 billion.

Announcing the new milestone, the YouTube team said that nearly half of all Internet users are visiting YouTube every month to watch everything from small clips of cute puppies to depressing scenes of social unrest around the globe.

In other words, 1 in every 7 people on the plant or 14.7 per cent of the whole world population is visiting YouTube every month.

India is experiencing a rise in abortions despite the law becoming stringent and to top it all these abortions are unsafe.

The percentage of unsafe abortions was 66 out of the total number of abortions recorded in 2008.

The central and south Asia recorded about 10.5 million abortions and out of these about 6.5 million had taken place in India.

While doing abortions, women died and the total number of women who died in one lakh abortions was 200. The World Health Organization alongwith New York's Guttmacher Institute released these figures.

The Times of India and Beat Diabetes launch their annual walkathon initiative this Sunday and invite interests Indians to raise Diabetes awareness. Every participant can receive a free diabetes checkup.

Participants will start the walk at Bangalore's Kanteerva Stadium and will lead through the beautiful Cubbon Park. The event is accompanied by entertaining live performances.

A total of 77 cases of NDM-1 superbug infections have been detected in 13 European countries since 2008, according to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). A senior health expert says that an effective preventative is prudent use of antibiotics.

The NDM-1 superbug refers to the New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase, an enzyme that, when carried by bacteria, makes them resistant to almost all known antibiotics. The first reported cases originated in New Delhi, and have since spread out to Australia, Canada, Singapore, the US, Britain and several other countries.