Shooter arrested after 9 people shot dead in US church

Dylann Roof is pictured in this undated booking photo provided by the Lexington County Sheriff' Department. Photograph: Reuters A 21-year-old white gunman on Thursday sprayed bullets at......

Hurricane Harvey continues rampage in Texas, 20 dead

Tropical storm Harvey continued to batter Texas on Wednesday with rain and floods leaving at least 20 people dead and submerging homes and turning streets, highways into lakes. Thousands of......

Aus: MP for debate on growing Muslim population

An Australian member of Parliament and former Immigration Minister, Kevin Andrews, has sparked off a row after suggesting that Australia needs to have a serious discussion about the growth of its......

Sonal Shah on 'digital' Obama's technology team

United States President-elect Barack Obama's Transition Team has announced leaders for a series of Policy Working Groups for the Presidential Transition, which includes Indian-American Sonal Shah......

Motorola's Sanjay Jha earned $13 mn in 2010

Motorola Mobility Inc's India-born chief executive officer Sanjay Jha earned a total compensation of $13 million in 2010, an over three-fold increase from the $3.78 million he had earned the......

Motorola splits into 2 firms

Motorola breaks into two entities Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on Tuesday. Motorola's mobile unit includes handsets and set-top boxes that will continue to do business under the name......

Motorola bosses to go for 25% pay cuts

Leading mobile phone maker of the US, Motorola, will undertake cost-cutting measures, including freezing pay hikes, while company's co-chief executives -- Greg Brown and Sanjay Jha -- would take a......

A breather for Adani! Aussie PM backs his mining project

Tony Abbott has said that the $-16.5 billion project was ‘vitally important’ Gautam Adani’s stalled mining project in Australia received the much-needed breather with the......

Will the third Wimpy Kid pack a punch as well?

Diary of Wimpy Kid: Dog Days releases in the US on August 3. Here's what we can look forward to.During his summer vacation, the wise-cracking 'Wimpy Kid' Greg Heffley, hatches a plan to pretend he......

Oscars Winners at a Glance: The Artist wins 5 awards

The 84th Annual Academy Awards have been announced. Here's a quick glance at the winners, listed in bold:Best Picture The ArtistThe DescendantsExtremely Loud & Incredibly CloseThe HelpHugoMidnight......

When It Was Bradman Versus India

History has not seen a cricketing rivalry as fierce as this this century, every ball bowled every run taken, coming with no quarter given. Ahead of India's five Test tour of Australia, beginning in......

Legendary South African all-rounder Mike Procter dies aged 77

IMAGE: The former Proteas all-rounder Mike Procter passes away at the age of 77. Photograph: Philip Brown/Reuters Cricket South Africa (CSA) on Sunday mourned  the death of one of country's......

How 'Mankaded' came into being

When Vinoo Mankad ran out Bill Brown, he created cricketing history -- and eternal controversy. IMAGE: The great Vinoo Mankad. 1947. Vinoo Mankad had warned Australian batsman Bill Brown for......

Greg Chappell appointed full-time selector

Formercaptain Greg Chappell on Monday became Australia's the first full-time selector afterbeing appointed as National Talent Manager by the Cricket Board. Andrew Hilditch will continue to chair......

N Zealand's Brown claims superb Johnnie Walker win

New Zealand's Mark Brown clinched a three-shot victory in the Johnnie Walker Classic on Sunday, claiming his second title in successive weeks. The 33-year-old Wellington golfer shot a last round......