INDIA will go to the polls next month in the biggest democratic exercise in the nation's history, an election which will involve 543 constituencies and draw in up to 100 million new voters. Chief election commissioner VS Sampath announced yesterday the ...

Facebook, with the thinly veiled veneer of “bringing internet access to the underconnected,” is looking to acquire Titan Aerospace — an American maker of high-altitude UAVs (drones). The idea is that these Titan drones would be used to connect the 5 billion ...

image BEIJING: China on Wednesday extended its spending spree on the world's largest armed forces, unveiling a 12.2 percent increase in the defence budget for 2014 and provoking fresh concern in rival Japan. Beijing has for years been raising spending ...

Manchester United captain Nemanja Vidic will join Inter Milan in the close season after eight years of success with the English champions, the Serie A side announced on Wednesday. The 32-year-old Serbia central defender said last month he would be ...

A recently discovered asteroid is on course to have a close encounter with the Earth today, coming closer than our Moon's orbit. The asteroid, dubbed 2014 DX 110, is about 100 feet in diameter and is set to come within 216,000 miles of Earth — a close shave ...

Space is really, really big. But that doesn't mean there aren't a lot of rocks whizzing around in it. Which is why astronomers aren't packing up their cars and heading to the hills as a 90-foot asteroid swings between the Earth and Moon on Wednesday afternoon ...

The deadly violence in Kunming outraged the whole society and recalled the memory of the Xinjiang riot in July 2009. Stirring up public antagonism and causing frictions between Uyghur and Han is the precise goal of the terrorists. In recent years, Xinjiang ...

China on Wednesday extended its spending spree on the world's largest armed forces, unveiling a 12.2 per cent increase in the defence budget for 2014 and provoking fresh concern in rival Japan. PHOTOS. File photo: Chinese People's Liberation Army ...

VIDIC-HURT MILAN, March 5- Italian giants Inter Milan on Wednesday confirmed that Manchester United captain Nemanja Vidic will join the club this summer. No details of the length of contract agreed with the 32-year-old Serbian defender were revealed.

Protein is known to help the body in muscle building but consuming high levels of protein can be dangerous for the body. Scientists have claimed that the high-protein diet can be as dangerous for the body as smoking 20 cigarettes a day. After conducting a ...

There is bad news for middle-aged people who love to eat lots of meat, milk and cheese. They are four times more likely to die of cancer than someone with a low-protein diet, said researchers. Those who eat lots of protein from animal sources are also more ...

Manchester United captain Nemanja Vidic will play for Inter Milan next season, the Italian club have announced. Photograph: Nick Potts/PA Wire. Topics: Sport · Soccer · English Soccer · captain Nemanja Vidic; More Topics. Wed, Mar 5, 2014, 11:48.

The Federation Council is drawing up a bill that would allow the government to confiscate the property of U.S. and European companies in the event of Western sanctions. The bill, a reaction to threats of economic sanctions following Russia's military presence ...

India says it will begin its multi-stage parliamentary election in April, with opinion polls suggesting that an opposition, Hindu nationalist block could upset the longtime ruling Congress Party. Election Commissioner V.S. Sampath said on Wednesday a ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (left) listens to his Spanish counterpart, José Manuel Garcia-Margallo, during a joint news conference in Madrid on Wednesday. Picture: REUTERS. Related articles. Military force would be 'last resort' in Ukraine, says ...

Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius sits in the dock on the third day of his trial for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, March 5, 2014. REUTERS/Alon Skuy/Pool. PRETORIA (Reuters) ...

Nasa have released a set of real-life Gravity inspired images after congratulating everyone involved with producing the multi-Oscar winning movie, especially Alfonso Cuarón for winning Best Director. Here is a selection of images from the US Space Agency.

A professional boxer's foot was cut by fragments of marble when Oscar Pistorius inadvertently fired a gun in to the floor of a Johannesburg restaurant, and then asked his friend to take the blame. Kevin Lerena told the North Gauteng High Court how he had ...

China is holding fast to its expectations of moderate GDP growth, as Beijing struggles to maintain the country's economic expansion in the face of fiscal, social and environmental threats to its prosperity. On Wednesday, amid the grandeur of the cavernous ...

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