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ISIS opens 5-star hotel for jihadist commanders in Iraq

The first 5-star hotel for Islamic State jihadists includes a swimming pool and tennis court. Photograph: ISIS release Dreaded Islamic State terror group has purportedly opened its own 5-star......

Jeet Thayil on 2012 Man Booker long-list

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.......

UK nuclear leak that was unnoticed for 9 months

In Britain's worst nuclear accident in 13 years, about 83,000 litres of highly radioactive liquid leaked unnoticed for up to nine months from a ruptured pipe inThorp reprocessing plant in......

Criticality may mean death for Kudankulam's seas

The first two units of the Kudankulam nuclear plant will discharge 6.3 billion litres of waste water every day right onto the beach. This discharge will trigger a slow-motion disaster that will......

While India sleeps, Chinese threat grows

New Delhi's portrayal of the humiliating defeat at the hands of Chinese in 1962 as 'betrayal' and 'surprise' is untrue. The pacifist Indian leadership that was crying hoarse from rooftops for......

Narayana Murthy on the essence of leadership

A leader is an agent of change, and progress is about change. In the words of Robert F Kennedy, 'Progress is a nice word; but change is its motivator.'Leadership is about raising the aspirations of......

At 17, she has built a million-dollar web site

Late last year, Ian Moray stumbled across a cotton-candy-pink Web site called Whateverlife.com. As manager of media development at the online marketing company ValueClick Media, he was searching......

5 strategies to make your funds last

Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money. -- Jonathan Clements, journalist and author In retirement, we......

Why I will not recommend Guzaarish to anyone

Hrithik Roshan, who plays a quadriplegic person in his latest film Guzaarish -- may have got great reviews for his performance but not everyone is happy with it.Dr Ketna Mehta, who runs Nina......

How Alia Bhatt nailed Udta Punjab

'The starting point of the Udta Punjab casting was that we didn't think stars would do a film like this, so we'd take non-stars.''As the names kept rolling in and we had Kareena Kapoor and Shahid......

'Not humanly possible': Critics slam Pan's record

'I cooperated with all the testing procedures and stayed confident that I am competing fair and clean' IMAGE: China’s Zhanle Pan reacts after winning the race and establishing World record.......

'Toxic' culture fuelled Aussie swimming flop

Slack management allowed a "culturally toxic" environment to develop in Australia's swimming team at the London Olympics with abuse of alcohol and prescription drugs as well as flouting of curfews......

Sports Shorts: Five-time Olympic champion Franklin retires at 23

Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday IMAGE: Missy Framklin holds a world record in the 200m backstroke event. Photograph: Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images Missy Franklin, the......

WADA may appeal Olympic champion Sun's three-month doping ban

Sun Yang. Photograph: Adam Pretty/Getty Images The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will review the reasons behind the three-month ban handed to Chinese Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang and......

No booze party for Australian Olympians at Rio

Australian Olympians will be forced to break from their tradition of wild partying in the athletes village after finishing their events at the 2016 Rio Games, with a strict alcohol ban to be......

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