Here's your weekly digest of the craziest and funniest stories from around the world.

Mercedes-Benz's first launch of the year is its most gorgeous looking and the new entry-level sedan, CLA-Class.

The phone is equipped with a 1.3 GHz Quad Core Processor and a majestic 5-inch HD IPS display.

What makes it one of the most innovative places in the world? Ellen Petry Leanse, former Apple employee, leadership mentor and coach tells us.

Arvind Subramanian talks about US and China's power play and where India figures in these dynamics.

The addition of a mobile payments service to Apple Inc's next iPhone could help to boost sales of the larger-screen phones and claw back market share lost to mobiles running on Google Inc's Android platform.

Apple Inc unveiled a watch, two larger iPhones and a mobile payments service on Tuesday as Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook seeks to revive the technology company's reputation as a wellspring of innovation.

The first new product to be developed and introduced under Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook's reign is a wearable device

The magnetism of a yo-yo... two friends getting estranged over a game shooting incident that saves lives... A short story by Ashwath Nityanandan.

Nobody makes denial look this fabulous, says Raja Sen after watching Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel.

The robot can have potential uses in invasive surgery and oil well drilling, among other applications, scientists say.

The push-back by Hillary Clinton was no longer available to keep the proponents of the thesis away that somehow it was India's problem that Pakistan misbehaves in Afghanistan or misbehaves at all, says K C Singh.

China's largest search engine is developing prototype digital eyewear similar to Google Glass.

An Indian economist in Washington has said that American companies should focus on long-term goals and not on short- term hurdles, as working towards that objective is more of 'a marathon' than 'a sprint'.

Politics as practiced is bad enough, the Choutalas, the Owaisis and their ilk have made it worse, says Mahesh Vijapurkar.

It was said to be a close fight, but as it turned out President Barack Obama effortlessly went past the challenge posed by his Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

Sadanand Dhume, one of the rising stars in the Washington, DC, policy wonk circles, particularly among Conservatives, argues that while President Obama can take Indian Americans support for granted, their natural home should be the Grand Old Party

Manchester United are all but certain to retain their Premier League title after opening an eight-point lead by beating Queens Park Rangers 2-0 on Sunday while second-placed Manchester City crashed to a 1-0 defeat at Arsenal.

Anna Hazare's anti-corruption movement might have aroused high sentiment in India but social activist Aruna Roy believes it lacked the ideological tethering that is required to hold mass campaigns together and was essentially driven by the mass media.

The film isn an exquisite and gorgeous motion picture.

Low margins and cash crunch have resulted in job cuts and a decline in the insurance industry. A policy roadblock is making it worse.

Active participation in multilateral co-operation can be India's response to China's growing economic presence.

Preeti Arora says Kucch Luv Jaisa is entertaining but lacks the punch.

Shuvo Roy did not want to be a doctor. His father was a public health physician and several family members were doctors. "I wanted to be different," says Roy. "So I studied engineering." Now he leads a team that is hoping to create the world's first artificial kidney, writes Sandip Roy.

In announcing the appointments, Obama said, "Our nation will be well-served by the skill and dedication these men and women bring to their new roles. I look forward to working with them in the months and years ahead."

The Tamil movie is an intriguing clash of clans, but suffers from overkill.

The Navy is planning to procure an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) with onboard sonars and cameras for boosting its surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities under the sea.

On May 11 we launched our campaign against caste in census 2011 and responses from readers have been pouring in. While some merely clicked the 'I am against the caste census' button, others were more vocal. We present what our readers had to say.

Businessmen and society have a strangely contradictory relationship.

The Bill suggests to the backward classes that 'the best from the West is not for you, the home-grown is good enough for you', says Rama Bijapurkar.

This Tamil movie is a daring enterprise full of violence and sexual overtones.

In New Delhi, everybody says that United States' Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to India is crucial and it might turn out to be a historic one also. "Clinton's visit is crucial and historic," said a senior officer of the Prime Minister's Office, while talking to the media on the way back from the G-8 summit in Italy. But there are too many hot issues on the table that don't have an easy solution. India is under pressure on the issue of climate change.

One gets the impression that most of the skywalks that are coming up in Mumbai are tethered in the philosophy that if you cannot provide a safe passage for the pedestrians on the cluttered sidewalks, provide a skywalk. It costs much more, renders the skyscape uglier but then the pedestrian deserves a new uplifting experience. So, take him skywards.

Less than two weeks after her arrival in Washington, India's Ambassador-designate to the United States, Meera Shankar, became India's ambassador after presenting her credentials at the State Department to Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg.

Kevin Pietersen says the frustration he has exhibited during England's tour of West Indies has been building up since the humiliating Test and ODI defeats against India and was compounded by the team's continuing poor show in the Caribbean.

England's Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff will be fit for Friday's decisive fifth one-day international against West Indies in St Lucia.

Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur took up Mumbai's cause, as he penned a moving poem about the terror attack on November 26 last year.

Given how the brief strike by state-owned oil sector officers raised the spectre of a fuel drought across the country, the government deserves to be congratulated for deciding to take tough action and threaten to arrest striking officers, since this is what finally broke the strike. The fact that the emoluments of some of the striking workers were made public didn't help their case either, since these showed the managers to be amongst the better-paid in the public sector.

Barring infrequent flashes of his earlier works, there's very little to write home about -- and you hope Radhamohan's picturisation makes these numbers work.

'The deal on offer creates a Tarapur-style trap of gigantic dimensions. In fact, the latest Act specifically empowers the US to do what it did in 1978 -- retroactively rewrite the rules of cooperation with India by enacting a new domestic law.'