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US woman hit on head by boss' penis wins $95m in largest sex harassment payout

A woman, who was hit on the head by her boss’ penis, has been awarded $95 million as compensation in a sexual harassment case against her former employers, and it is believed to be the highest payout

Tsonga shocks Nadal to reach Queen's semis

World number one Rafael Nadal crashed out of Queen's on Friday when French fifth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga pulled off a shock 6-7 (3/7), 6-4, 6-1 win in the quarter-finals.

Nadal arrived at the Wimbled

Quiet funeral, burial in London

Indian’s best-known contemporary painter, Maqbool Fida Husain, who died of a heart attack on Thursday, was buried in a simple ceremony in London on Friday afternoon.

Made Royal Navy ‘head’

Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, turned 90 on Friday and was made the titular head of the Royal Navy by his wife.

‘High heels raise risk of developing arthritis’

Girls please take note: Wearing high heels or stilettos not just increases the height of your fashion, they may also up your risk of developing arthritis, researchers say.

Magnets can help prevent heart attack?

Magnets may soon replace aspirins often given to people at risk of heart attacks to thin their blood, scientists have claimed. Researchers at Temple University in Michigan found that a device that uses a magnetic field to thin fuel, can have the same effect on human blood.

Nadal in Queen's last eight after Stepanek test

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Rafael Nadal had to dig deep to reach the quarterfinals at Queen's with a hard-fought 6-3, 5-7, 6-1 win against Czech veteran Radek Stepanek on Thursday.

Few players have made the switch from clay to

Husain lives in deathless art

M.F. Husain, seen here with former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in New Delhi on August 9, 2004. PHOTO: PTI

Celebrated Indian artist Maqbool Fida Husain, who was in self-imposed exile from India, died at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London early on Thursday morning. He was 95.

Jilted beau in court for sending 17,000 SMSs to ex-lover

A jilted lover in Britain faces the possibility of a prison term for bombarding his ex-girlfriend with 17,000 SMSs and phone calls, including 180 on one particular day.

Glynn Johnson, 21, pushed the

Real-life Ophelia found?

An Oxford academic has found a “tantalising” link between Shakespeare’s tragic heroine Ophelia and a real-life girl who died at the age of two in 1569, when the Bard would have been around five years

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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.