UNITED NATIONS: India has said it will contribute $500,000 to the United Nations's emergency response fund for the year 2016-17 as it stressed that the international response is falling significantly short of the challenges posed by humanitarian crises ...

LONDON: Diego Costa fired Chelsea back to the top of the Premier League as the Spain striker's late winner clinched a hard-fought 1-0 victory against West Bromwich Albion on Sunday. Antonio Conte's side had been knocked out of first place by Arsenal on ...

PARIS: Asian countries dominated the top places in a key survey released Tuesday of high-school skills, but the report criticised science teaching in many countries. The PISA survey of 15-year-olds in 72 countries and economies found that the quality ...

LONDON: Arsenal squandered a chance to wrap up first place in Champions League Group A as Paris Saint-Germain hit back to earn a 2-2 at the Emirates Stadium on Wednesday. Arsene Wenger's side were on course to secure top spot and a possible ...

In the last one decade, the number of diabetes patients in India increased by over 30 million due to sedentary lifestyle and erratic schedule mostly common in the age group of 20-40 years, said the country's leading diabetic experts on Monday . Their ...

In the last one decade, the number of diabetes patients in India increased by over 30 million due to sedentary lifestyle and erratic schedule mostly common in the age group of 20-40 years, said the country's leading diabetic experts on Monday . Their ...

NEW DELHI: BlackBerry Passport made news with its unconventional form factor incorporating a giant square screen and a small hardware keyboard. While it's not the first time that a BlackBerry phone tries to marry a touch screen with a QWERTY, the ...

WASHINGTON: Investigators found more than 800 rounds of ammunition, a machete and two hatchets in the car of the former soldier accused of scaling the White House fence and sprinting inside while carrying a knife, a US prosecutor said on Monday.

LONDON: Scientists have found the first ever evidence of a swimming dinosaur. A giant fossil, unearthed in the Sahara desert has been confirmed as 95-million-year-old swimming dinosaur with giant slanted teeth well-suited for catching fish, long neck and ...

SYDNEY: Australia on Friday raised the terror threat level to "high" for the first time in a decade, on concerns about Australians returning from fighting in Iraq and Syria. The heightened alert after years on "medium" officially means a "terrorist attack is likely".

"One more thing…" is among the most iconic lines in Apple's history as it has preceded all of their breakthrough products during launches. Apple Watch was this year's "one more thing." Let's see how this all-new Apple device fares against the current slew of ...

SAN FRANCISCO: Sixty thousand people vied to attend the unveiling of Amazon's first smartphone in late June. If only the retailer could persuade those fans — or anyone, really — to actually buy the device. The Amazon Fire is threatening to become the ...

GENEVA: India accounted for the highest estimated number of suicides in the world in 2012, according to a WHO report published in Thursday which found that one person commits suicide every 40 seconds globally. In the WHO South-East Asia Region, the ...

BERLIN: Samsung announced its first-ever virtual reality headset last night, named Gear VR. It is a headset that Samsung has built in conjunction with VR company Oculus, and the company aims to invest more in this technology in coming time. So, what does ...

NEW DELHI: The Centre on Thursday sounded a country-wide alert after an al-Qaida video appeared in which the terror outfit threatened to carry out campaign in India. Home minister Rajnath Singh went into a huddle with top security officials as an initial ...

Brad Pitt hummed the 'Wedding March' himself when Angelina Jolie was walking down the aisle, it has been revealed. The 50-year-old actor also had to take a tie from one of his sons for the ceremony as he forgot his own, New York Post reported.

SPA (Belgium): World championship leader Nico Rosberg was condemned by his team and booed by spectators on Sunday after colliding with Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton on the way to taking second place behind victorious Australian Daniel ...

WASHINGTON: Bank of America agreed on Thursday to a record nearly $17 billion deal with US authorities to settle claims it sold risky mortgage securities as safe investments ahead of the 2008 financial crisis. Under the settlement with the department of ...

A-list celebs like Lady Gaga, Chris Pratt are among many more who have taken on the Ice Bucket Challenge. Gaga recently posted her video via Instagram, where she is dressed in a leather leotard and doesn't speak a word, though she nominated Adele, ...

Superstar Rajinikanth's 'Lingaa' heroine, Sonakshi Sinha shared a video of herself on Instagram participating in the Ice Bucket Challenge. Sonakshi took the Ice Bucket Challenge uninvited, but in a further twist of the rules, her bucket contained a solitary ice ...