Christie's auctioned off the Archduke Joseph Diamond for nearly $21.5 million on Tuesday night, a world auction record price per carat for a colorless diamond.

Valerie Eliot, the widow of T.S. Eliot and zealous guardian of the poet’s literary legacy for almost half a century, has died. She was 86.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday fired defence minister Anatoly Serdyukov over a corruption scandal, the most dramatic change to the government since he returned to the Kremlin for a third term.

The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize for its long-term role in uniting the continent, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Friday, an award seen as morale boost for the bloc as it struggles to resolve its debtcrisis.

Lt Gen K.S. Brar, who was assaulted by four people in central London on Sunday night, is convinced that it was an attempt to assassinate him by 'pro-Khalistan elements' for his role in the 1984 'Operation Blue Star'.

To develop new scientific approaches for treatment of diseases like cancer, India's Department of Biotechnology and the University of Cambridge are setting up a new initiative for chemical biology and molecular therapeutics at inStem, Bengaluru.

Wikileaks has sparked outrage by saying that the Libyan embassy was attacked because the US has backed Britain's threats to storm the Ecuadorian embassy in London and arrest Julian Assange.

Lotus driver Romain Grosjean of France crashes into Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso of Spain during the first lap at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit of the Belgium Formula One Grand Prix on Sunday.

Enrique Pena Nieto was finally declared Mexico's president-elect on Friday after a two-month legal fight, but his leftist rival refused to accept the result and called for a rally.

The London Paralympics opened on Wednesday night literally with a Big Bang — a celebration of science featuring Shakespeare, theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking and umbrellas.