Six months after his death, a new book has claimed that Osama bin Laden was shot dead within 90 seconds of the beginning of a raid on his Pakistani hideout by US commandos, and not killed after a 45-m

Delighted that new stringent student visa rules were “beginning to bite”, the UK home office on Wednesday said a further tightening of the system was on the cards from April even as British universiti

Leading scientists from around the world are meeting in Britain from today to consider a proposal that could eventually see Greenwich Mean Time relegated to a footnote in history.

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TWO ART deco works, designed for Maharaja of Indore’s Manik Bagh palace in 1930s, are estimated to sell for more than $2 million in an auction later this month.

The number of active mobile phones in Britain has now reached 76.4 million -- more than the country's population of 61.9 million, says a report by a telecommunications regulatory authority.

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A London judge was to hand down sentences on Thursday against three Pakistani cricketers convicted of fixing part of a Test match, a day after allegations of more widespread corruption emerged in cour

Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt, Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif and agent Mazhar Majeed were all jailed on Thursday for their parts in fixing parts of a Test match against England.

A 21-year-old American woman has been officially certified by Guinness as having the world's longest tongue, measuring a whopping 9.7 cm.

Chanel Tapper, from Houston, US, shot to fame as a 13-year-ol

A 21-year-old American woman has been officially certified by Guinness as having the world's longest tongue, measuring a whopping 9.7 cm.

Chanel Tapper, from Houston, US, shot to fame as a 13-year-ol

Delighted that new stringent student visa rules were 'beginning to bite', the British Home Office today said a further tightening of the system was on the cards from April even as British universities