LONDON: Professor Stephen Hawking, one of the world's most famous scientists, is "very ill" in hospital, Cambridge University has said.The physicist, who works at the university, has been having tests after being taken by ambulance to Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.A university spokesman said: "Professor Hawking is very ill. He is undergoing tests. He has been unwell for a couple of weeks."Professor Peter Haynes, head of the University's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, added: "Professor Hawking is a remarkable colleague."We all hope he will be amongst us again soon."One of the last times the 67-year-old scientist appeared in public was in September when he unveiled a £1m clock erected at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.The professor is best known for his book A Brief History of Time.He has motor neurone disease and is wheelchair bound. He speaks with the help of a voice synthesiser.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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