Maintaining his standard and living up to his own expectations still give Sachin Tendulkar "sleepless nights" and it is this restlessness that has brought the best out of him.

A potato chip ad featuring actor Ashton Kutcher dressed up as a dark-skinned Bollywood producer “Raj” and talking with an Indian accent has been attacked for being racist by social media users. Kutcher appears in the “Popchips” ad as four different characters looking for a partner in a dating show. One is as 39-year-old Raj, a “Bollywood producer looking for the most delicious thing on the planet”, the actor says with an Indian accent.

US President Barack Obama said he expected a 'rigorous' investigation into a sex scandal involving Secret Service agents, warning he would be 'angry' if the claims were proven true.

At 1,102 feet up and 3,858 feet across, the ambitious suspension bridge in China's Hunan province has become the highest and longest in the world.

The tumult within billionaire investor George Soros' firm continues as one of his sons is separating some of his personal fortune to manage it himself.

The World Bank has offered $500 million interest-free credit to India for improving the standards of secondary education, an official statement said Friday. The World Bank on Thur-sday approved the credit that will help the Indian government’s effo-rts to make good quality education “available, accessible and affordable to all young persons at the secondary level (grades 9 and 10).”

An Indian maid — who had accused her former employer, an IFS officer, and her husband of harassment and “slavery” — has received a favourable ruling from a US court, which approved her petition that she be awarded $1.5 million as compensation by the couple.

Virtually putting India and 11 others countries on notice, the US has asked them to significantly reduce by June 28 the purchase of Iranian oil to avoid sanctions, as it announced a list of nations that will be exempted from the curbs.

Stand-in Australia captain Shane Watson described Rahul Dravid as 'the nicest guy' in world cricket ahead of the Indian batsman's likely retirement announcement on Friday.

Scientists said they have got even closer to proving the existence of the elusive Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle” that supplies mass to matter and would complete Albert Einstein’s theory of the universe.