Press Trust of India

Now, turn your smart phone photos into the beautiful work of arts with this iPhone app.

Developed by the Brooklyn-based firm Tinybop, the app named Waterlogue simulates the actual painting process.

With Waterlogue, the developers tried to write algorithms that approached images as a human would.

How does it work?

Waterlogue starts by distilling pictures into lines.

It then boils those down to the ones that a person might actually draw – simplifying the image from a thousand tiny lines.

It creates each painting layer by layer, as a real artist would.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Barack Obama discussed the situation in Ukraine among other issues during the course of a telephone conversation Monday.

Stressing China’s objective and fair stance on Ukraine, Xi said, given the complexity of the Ukrainian situation, it was very important for all parties concerned to remain calm and exercise restraint in order to avoid escalation of the crisis, Xinhua reported.

One of the two suspects, who boarded the missing Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines flight on stolen passports, was identified Monday.

The man was identified using CCTV footage provided by the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), the Malaysian Star reported citing Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar.

“I can confirm that he is not a Malaysian but cannot divulge which country he is from yet,” Abu Bakar said at the Kajang police headquarters Sunday.

Is your kid suffering from asthma and wheezing disorders? The reason may be the child’s premature birth, research showed.

The risk of developing these conditions increases as the degree of prematurity increases, the study showed.

The findings are based on a systematic review of 30 studies that investigated the association between pre-term birth and asthma/wheezing disorders among 1.5 million children.

Worldwide, more than 11 percent of babies are born premature.

Musician Bruce Springsteen will reunite with documentary director Thom Zimny for the making of a new film on his most recent record, “High Hopes”.

Earlier this year, the music icon proved that he hasn’t lost his star power when his 18th studio album was introduced at number one in 20 countries, reports contactmusic.com

Prior to the album’s release, Springsteen teamed up with his old friend Zimny for the fourth time, allowing cameras to follow the singer during his studio sessions and rehearsals.
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A court case against German football club Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness began here Monday.

Hoeness has to answer personally in front of the court from Monday to Thursday as he faces accusations of having evaded taxes to the tune of 3.5 million euros, reports Xinhua.

The four-day process will focus on one central theme: Did Hoeness alert the tax office in time so that he may avoid a penalty?

Fifty-seven people have been arrested so far for election rules violations in Sri Lanka’s provincial polls scheduled later this month, an official said here Monday.

The Western and Southern Provincial Councils elections will be held March 29, in which 3,794 candidates are vying to fill 159 positions in the two provincial council bodies.

Election monitors have already warned the battle will be chaotic and possibly violent with many candidates of the ruling party, the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) and main Opposition United National Party (UNP) fighting it out for votes.

A simple blood test has the potential to predict whether a healthy person would develop symptoms of dementia within two or three years, a promising research shows.

The test could fill a major gap in strategies to combat brain degeneration which is thought to show symptoms only at a stage when it too late to treat effectively.

“These findings are potentially very exciting,” said Simon Lovestone, a neuroscientist at University of Oxford.

The whereabouts of a Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines jetliner missing with 239 aboard remained unknown after 48 hours despite a round-the-clock search operation and the Malaysian authorities for the first time started to look into the terrorist angle in light of several impostors found to have boarded the flight.

The aircraft vanished without a trace about an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur early Saturday. The Boeing 777-200ER was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast Saturday into the South China Sea.

Nepal is preparing to hold local body elections after a 16-year hiatus, a government minister said Sunday.

The elections for the leadership of village development committees (VDCs) and municipalities should have been held every five years. But due to political instability, there has not been any such election since 1998.

The Constituent Assembly elections were successfully conducted in November last year. In their election manifestos, all the political parties had committed to hold such elections within six months from the formation of the new government.

Spring is here and it’s time to add new elements like cropped trouser, lace skirt and spring coat to the wardrobe.

Femalefirst.co.uk picks out six items that will fit seamlessly into your current look and update you with the current fashion trend that has set in for this Spring:

Fit and flare dress: A fit and flare dress in a jersey or cotton fabric is something you’ll find yourself reaching for time and time again this summer. It’s Incredibly flattering and easy to wear.