PART III: Smashing PHOTOS of the YEAR

From the uprisings across the Arab world to the devastating earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan, there was no lack of news in 2011. In this special series, rediff.com brings to......

Anonymous email threatens to blow up Lucknow railway station

Tension prevailed at Lucknow's historicCharbagh railway station after a local private TV channel claimed to have received an emailonMonday threatening to blow up the station. No sooner than the......

Tech glitch shuts down Nasdaq market for 3 hours

Trading in thousands of US stocks ground to a halt for much of Thursday after an unexplained technological problem shut down trading in Nasdaq securities, the latest prominent disruption to the......

Anil Ambani tops billionaire blowups list

Industrialist Anil Ambani continues to be on the focus of US magazine Forbes but this time around for topping the list of 'Billionaire Blowups of 2008' by virtue of turning the biggest loser of......

Largest disgraced CEO severances

Stanley O'Neal may not be getting a severance in the technical sense, but that doesn't mean he's walking away from Merrill Lynch a poor man. The chief executive "retired" Tuesday after a tumultuous......

Bugs that will ruin your PC

The greatest threat to global cyber security today, according to Internet Security Systems researcher Josh Corman, may be your mother's computer. Or more precisely, the collected computers of all......

Sex is no longer mantra for success

If Trent Walker (played by Vince Vaughn) of Doug Liman's cult favourite Swingers were asked to comment about sex in Hollywood films today, this is what he would say: 'Sex's dead, baby, sex's......