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......
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.......
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......
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......
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......
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......
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......
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......
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......
'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......
'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.......
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......
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......
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......
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......