2008-10-07 18:25:37
British actor Ben Kingsley, who played the award-wining role of the protagonist in Richard Attenborough's legendary film 'Gandhi', will attend a special screening of the movie during the Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) in Abu Dhabi th
2008-10-07 17:04:01
An Indian-origin minister has been dropped from British Premier Gordon Brown's cabinet and replaced as under-secretary of state in the department for communities and local government by another parliamentarian of Asian descent.
2008-10-07 16:44:43
Amidst a religious function at Kumari House in centre of Kathmandu, three-year-old Matina Shakya, the new Kumari or Living Goddess has been formally installed.
2008-10-07 16:30:23
A 19th century stunning marble bust of Maharajah Ranjit Singh, the erstwhile ruler of Punjab, was auctioned for 110,400 pounds at Bonhams Indian and Islamic Sale.
2008-10-07 16:11:47
A 50-part prime-time TV series on the legendary Kung-fu expert Bruce Lee is being made by China's state broadcaster CCTV.
2008-10-07 14:48:26
Rescue helicopters were dispatched in Kyrgyzstan to evacuate victims of a devastating earthquake that killed 75 people, including 41 children, in a remote mountain village near the Chinese border.
2008-10-07 13:40:07
Up to 40 people were injured in a mid-air incident, forcing an Australian airliner to make emergency landing today, a police officer said.
2008-10-07 10:19:21
An unemployed Californian shot and killed his wife, three children and mother-in-law before taking his own life over his family's financial difficulties, police said.
2008-10-07 09:31:21
Days after India signed a civil nuclear deal with France, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is hoping that Paris will provide Pakistan with technical assistance for peaceful use of nuclear power to meet its energy requirements.
2008-10-07 09:05:12
Violence across troubled Afghanistan have left more than two dozen people dead, including a cook and his 12-year-old son allegedly shot dead by Taliban, authorities said today.
2008-10-07 08:43:20
An unemployed California man shot and killed his wife, three children and mother-in-law before taking his own life over his family's financial difficulties, police said yesterday.
2008-10-07 08:38:53
Shoddy soldering job on one of the 10,000 components caused atom crasher failure
2008-10-07 07:53:05
George Culwick, Lucy Heenan got separated in the 1940s
2008-10-07 07:50:10
The world's tallest man has become the world's tallest father
2008-10-07 07:47:09
French and German scientists credited with the discovery of the viruses behind AIDS and cervical cancer yesterday won the Nobel Medicine Prize, the first of the prestigious awards to be announced.
2008-10-07 07:43:19
John and Ann Till collected 60,000 items and exchanged them for air miles
2008-10-06 18:57:02
Speculation is ripe that Prince William and his girlfriend Kate Middleton may soon split after it has emerged that she will have to wait for another eight years to marry the second-in-line to the British throne.
2008-10-06 17:21:08
Suspected Taliban militants fired rockets targeting the house of North West Frontier Province Chief Minister Amir Haider Hoti in Mardan city, but no casualties were reported.
2008-10-06 16:04:55
A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 hit the Himalayan region of Tibet today, the US Geological Survey said.
2008-10-06 15:58:32
President Hamid Karzai's brother denied today that he has ever been involved in Afghanistan's heroin trade and accused US officials of fabricating allegations to harm the president.
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