Colombo, Aug 7 (DPA) Newly-appointed Tamil rebel leader Selvarasa Pathmanathan, also known as KP, has been arrested in Bangkok, a Sri Lankan military official said Thursday. ...More

Washington, Aug 7 (DPA) Unidentified hackers brought the microblogging website Twitter to its knees for several hours Thursday. Twitter founder Biz Stone...More

London, Aug 6 (IANS) Pop singer Christina Aguilera has revealed becoming a mother has boosted her sex appeal. The star gave birth to baby boy Max, her fi...More

London, Aug 6 (IANS) American chat show queen Oprah Winfrey is facing a staggering $1 trillion legal battle over allegations that she passed another author's work off as her own. ...More

London, Aug 6 (IANS) Hollywood filmmaker Ridley Scott is teaming up with actor Lenoardo DiCaprio to transform cult novel 'Brave New World' for the big screen. ...More

London, Aug 6 (IANS) Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt has confessed he left showbiz when he was a younger star because he was taking too many drugs that turned him into a 'doughnut'....More

London, Aug 6 (IANS) A blood-stained woman's blouse has been found hanging in the late pop legend Michael Jackson's wardrobe at his Los Angeles mansion, sparking further rumours o...More

Beijing, Aug 6 (IANS) India Thursday denied reports in a section of the Chinese media and said it has not imposed any restrictions on Chinese goods. The ...More

Sydney/New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) Australia Thursday assured India that 'firm action' will be taken against those responsible for attacks on Indian students and stressed that inputs ...More

Islamabad, Aug 6 (IANS) Six days after India provided additional information on the involvement of Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, Pakis...More

Kandahar, Aug 6 (DPA) A roadside bomb explosion and a US airstrike killed 26 civilians in southern Afghanistan while six troops also died in fighting across the country, officials...More

Washington, Aug 6 (IANS) Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles of Bahamas lost to Czech Martin Damm and Sweden's Robert Lindstedt 6-3, 1-6, 14-16 in the second round of the ATP Legg Ma...More

Vancouver, Aug 6 (IANS) India's Sania Mirza overcame a stiff resistance from American qualifier Mallory Cecil 6-4, 7-5 to move into the women's singles second round of $175,000 Ol...More

London, Aug 6 (IANS) Led by ministers and royalty, Britain Thursday bade farewell to Harry Patch, the nation's last surviving veteran of the First World War - a simple working cla...More

Washington, Aug 6 (IANS) Blaming the previous Bush administration for 'a culture of poverty' that had starved the US campaign against Taliban, the top US military official says Am...More