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......

What you should know about the Golden Globes

A project rejected by practically every major studio in Hollywood as being too risky, Cold Mountain, directed by Anthony Minghella, was warmly greeted with eight Golden Globe nominations, including......

When Milkha Singh chatted with Rediff Readers

Four years before the arrival of the new century, long before Facebook Live and InstaChats, arrived the Rediff Chat, the Internet's first forum where Readers could chat with Newsmakers. Among the......

Australian opening salvo leaves England in tatters at Lord's

Australia's Steve Smith celebrates after reaching his double century on Day 2 of the second Ashes Test at Lord’s. Photograph: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images Australia ripped out England's top......

Blast from the past! Ben Johnson's disgrace at Seoul 25 years ago

Mike Collett, now Global Soccer Editor for Reuters, was an athletics reporter for United Press International in 1988. Here, he recalls covering the unfolding story of Ben Johnson's downfall at the......

Ben Johnson's protgs for trials at Salgaocar

Legendary sprinter Carl Lewis came to India in his prime to participate in a Permit Meet in New Delhi during the late eighties. Now it's the turn of his once bitter adversary Ben Johnson to step on......

Marion Jones denies taking THG steroid

Triple Olympic champion Marion Jones says she has never used the designer steroid THG nor taken any products manufactured by a California laboratory currently under federal grand jury......