NRI who plied wife with steroids jailed
An Indian-origin man has been given a suspended jail term in Britain for secretly feeding his wife steroids so that she becomes overweight and stays at home to cook and look after their children.
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Energy firm says 'fracking' triggered British earth tremors
A controversial method of extracting gas from the ground known as fracking was the 'highly probable' trigger of earth tremors along England's coastline this year, according to findings published on We
Champions League: Arsenal kept waiting after Marseille stalemate
Arsenal missed the chance to book their place in the Champions League knockout stage here on Tuesday after being held to a 0-0 draw by French side Marseille.
A lacklustre Group F encounter at the Emi
Three PIOs develop laser whisky test
Now, a laser test can determine if a whisky is counterfeit using just a drop of the beverage, thanks to three Indian-origin physicists in Britain.
Pak Fixers Guilty
Pakistani cricketers Salm-an Butt and Mohammad Asif were found guilty Tuesday of spot-fixing in the fourth England-Pakistan Test match at Lord’s in August last year.
‘Evolution occurred outside Africa also’
Scientists have claimed that human evolution also occurred outside Africa, after they found evidence that people in East Asia share genetic material with Denisovans, known as the mysterious cousins of
ICC may now investigate Kamran and Riaz
The ICC may now initiate fresh investigations against Pakistani players Kamran Akmal and Wahab Riaz following the conviction of their team-mates Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif in the spot-fixing scanda
Bidders scramble for royal underwear
A pair of ample bloomers once owned by Britain's Queen Victoria sold for more than £9,000 ($14,330, 10,500 euros) at an Edinburgh auction on Tuesday, more than three times the original estimate.
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WikiLeaks' Julian Assange loses extradition appeal
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lost his appeal against extradition to Sweden to answer sex crime allegations.
In a judgment Wednesday, Judges John Thomas and Duncan Ousely said that Assange, wh
After-death experience a trick of brain?
Have had an out-of-body experience? It’s nothing, just your brain playing tricks on you, according to a new study.