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Lakshmi Mittal tops Asian Rich List

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NRI steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal and his family continue to head the Asian Rich List-2012 despite their wealth coming down by 2 billion pounds at 13.5 billion pounds.

This is stated in the Asian Rich

Menu from Titanic's last lunch at British auction

British auctioneers are offering a first class menu from the Titanic's last lunch, an item they claim offers a unique window on the doomed ship's Edwardian splendour.

The menu, kept by a prominent S

English Premier League: Manchester City suffer title blow despite late fightback

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Manchester City's challenge for the Premier League title suffered a setback as they were forced to stage a late fightback just to salvage a 3-3 draw against Sunderland at Eastlands on Saturday.

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Woman burned as Britain gets in petrol panic

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A British minister said the government's handling of a threatened fuel strike had gone 'reasonably well', despite a national panic over supplies that ended with a woman suffering petrol burns.

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Einstein proven right on univ

The universe is expanding at exactly the speed Prof. Albert Einstein has predicted — driven by “dark energy”, says a new study.

Harry Potter magic tour opens today

Models of the teaching staff of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry at the Warner Bros studios in north London. 	— AFP

J.K. Rowling has put down her pen, the films and video games have made a fortune and the actors have moved on, but Harry Potter refuses to go quietly — or at least Warner Bros won’t let him.

Osama bin Laden had ‘not come up’ with the 9/11 plot

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It was not Osama bin Laden who had come up with the 9/11 plot, a new book has claimed which also says that he had initially dismissed the plan.

When the strike was first proposed to him in 1996 the

Britain marks Centenary of scott’s voyage

Britain on Thursday paid homage to Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his team, which made it to the South Pole on January 18, 1912 only to learn they had been beaten by the Norwegian explorers, led by Roald Amundsen.

Maths and Olympics: How fast could Usain Bolt run?

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Usain Bolt, already the world's fastest man, could lop another 0.18 seconds off his 100 metre sprint world record even without running any faster. It's just a question of getting a few conditions righ

Dewani's extradition from UK to South Africa halted for now

A British court on Friday temporarily halted the extradition of Indian-origin businessman Shrien Dewani to South Africa to face trial for the murder of his 28-year-old wife during their honeymoon in 2

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.