Noted Indian poet and writer Jeet Thayil is among 12 authors long-listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction worth 50,000 pounds and an assured spurt in the sales of the prize-winning book.......
No more fumbling with your mobile phone's or i-Pod's tiny touchpads -- you can now have a keypad on your forearm, just by combining acoustic sensors and a mini -projector, say scientists. An......
Energy prices are notoriously volatile, but now they're moving in just one direction: up. For a host of reasons, including strong demand, supply concerns, a lower dollar and the role of......
The Vietnamese Communist Party's official organ, Nhan Dan Daily, says the joint declaration on strategic partnership that Manmohan Singh signed last July with Vietnam's prime minister, Nguyen Tan......
Happy birthday, Katrina! When Katrina Kaif joined Bollywood 12 years ago, she was clueless about showbiz. She could barely speak Hindi. And her debut film Boom, though it starred the biggest......
IMAGE: Athletics South Africa likened the new IAAF regulations to apartheid, and both it and Semenya's lawyers have said they could contest the CAS ruling dismissing her appeal against their......
IMAGE: Saina Nehwal celebrates winning a point. Photograph: Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth won their respective singles matches, while Satwik Rankireddy and Ashwini......
Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland. Photograph: Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Being a member of tennis' Big Four might be the burning ambition of many players but Stan Wawrinka is in no rush to join the......
Italian police have detained an associate of soccer match-fixing suspect Tan Seet Eng at Milan’s Malpensa airport, two judicial sources told Reuters on Thursday, following a tip-off by......
Assertions by authorities that tackling match-fixing in soccer will be a long and complex process have been rejected by a leading expert on corruption in the game, who says the arrest of one person......