Olympic torch chiefs were left in a state of turmoil after they could not reignite the flame after it blew out during its tour of Scotland.

A blast of wind killed the flame just as the latest leg of

Arthur Gilbert, from England, has defied his years to become the world's oldest triathlete.

The energetic grandfather, who carried the Olympic Torch through Minehead, Somerset, last month, has taken

People are statistically more likely to die on their birthday than any other day, scientists have claimed.

A rare letter written in English by Napoleon Bonaparte, in captivity after losing the Battle of Waterloo, has been sold at an auction in Paris for a whopping $400,000.

Indian painter Tyeb Mehta’s Mahishasura, 1996, the most important painting from his ground-breaking series, was on Monday sold for £1.385 million by Christie’s in London.

Nobel Prize organizers have announced a cut in cash amounts to prize winners.

The Nobel Foundation blamed the global economic crisis for the move, which will see a 20 per cent cut in the prize money,

Crime doesn't pay! Quite literally, as bank robbers 'earn' less money than an average honest worker, an unprecedented study of their illegal trade has claimed.

The analysis of the ill-gotten gains of

London's Olympic Stadium will be transformed into a rural British idyll for the Games opening ceremony on July 27, organisers said on Tuesday.

The ceremony's artistic director Danny Boyle -- whose fi

Film director Shyam Benegal, who was honoured at a function in the British Film Institute on Saturday evening, said he would start actively working on films now that his term as a Rajya Sabha member h

Queen Elizabeth II’s consort, Prince Philip, turned 91 years old on Sunday and he marked the day quietly with family at Windsor Castle after he was discharged from hospital in London on Saturday.