Pan-IIT meet: All about inspiration

The IIT Alumni 2008 Global Conference is being held at IIT Madras, from December 19 to 21. The event is expected to get 3,000 alumni participants from around the globe and a galaxy of eminent......

Amazing facts about the world's first solar aircraft

The aircraft has to fly through five consecutive days and nights without using any fuel.   Image: Staff push the Solar Impulse's solar-powered HB-SIA prototype airplane after a test......

Now, four-legged robot that runs like a cat

Catbot! Swiss scientists have developed a four-legged cheetah-cub robot that runs like a cat and could be used for search and rescue missions. Thanks to its legs, whose design faithfully reproduces......

UEFA under fire following changes to Champions League

IMAGE: The UEFA logo outside its headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Files/Reuters The recently-announced changes to the Champions League are detrimental to domestic......

Breakaway league mulled after Champions League changes

A group of leading clubs from counties including Denmark, Scotland and the Netherlands are in talks to create a new trans-European soccer league in response to recent proposals to change the format......

FIFA agreeing to hold 2022 Qatar World Cup in winter?

FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke (right) with Fernanda Lima. Photograph: Clive Mason/Getty Images FIFA has reportedly raised objections of holding the 2022 Qatar World Cup in the summer in......

Sports Shorts: Former United striker Cole has kidney transplant

IMAGE: Cole won the treble with United in 1998-99 and scored 121 goals for the club in 275 appearances. Photograph: Bobby Yip/Reuters Former Manchester United striker Andy Cole is recovering in......