Celebrated painter M.F. Husain died at Royal Brompton Hospital in London at 2.30 am local time, family sources say. He was 95. Husain died in exile from his homeland in India, having become a citizen of Qatar in 2006.

Prince William's wife Kate Middleton's bank account was hacked nearly six years back by a private detective working for a British tabloid newspaper, a media report said.

The 29-year-old Duchess of Ca

Ebullient and eccentric at the same time, barefoot painter Maqbool Fida Husain took Indian art to the global stage with his cubist-inspired modern art but was riled in controversy with his paintings on Hindu deities.

Hollywood actress Eva Green is worried about designer John Galliano, who was accused of racist rants earlier in 2011, saying that she wishes she could turn back time.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi ordered mass rape and gave sex drugs to his troops to encourage them to attack women, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has said.

Luis Moreno-Ocam

A Las Vegas performer got her body pierced 3,200 times in a single session in a bid to break the world record for the most body piercings in a single sitting.

The previous record for the most body pi

A man in Britain has purchased a 100,000 pounds (about $165,000) beach-side toilet for his beloved wife as a present on their wedding anniversary.

When builder Nick Willan spotted the property at the

Twenty-eight Indians working illegally in the UK were arrested by the UK Border Agency on Tuesday in its largest-ever swoop on suspected illegal workers in Leicester. Twelve Indians had been arrested in Leicester on May 26, taking the total number of Indians arrested for working illegally to 40.

Alastair Cook scored his third century in four Test innings but England had to settle for a draw in the second match of their series against Sri Lanka at Lord's here Tuesday.

Sri Lanka, set an imposi

Gas giant Jupiter may have robbed the mass of its neighbouring planet Mars and built the strange icy rocky asteroid belt billions of years ago when the solar system was forming, a new study has sugges