A British tourist has died in police custody in Dubai, the UK Foreign Office confirmed on Thursday, amid newspaper reports that he suffered severe beatings while in detention.

Lee Brown 39, was repor

Classified FBI files that have now been made public reveal that the American domestic intelligence agency spied on the Beatles and Michael Jackson in case they disturbed national security.

The secret

Indian writer Tishani Doshi did not make it to the six-book shortlist for this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction.

A university lecturer in the US has been suspended after he allegedly held a seminar in which students received lap dances from strippers.

Professor Jack Rappaport, 57, charged students 150 dollars t

Sachin Tendulkar has been named Wisden's Cricketer of the Year for 2010, crowning a golden month for ‘the Little Master’ which also saw him play a starring role in India's World Cup triumph.

Tendulka

Mark Webber can be a contender for the Formula One world title this season his Red Bull team boss Christian Horner said on Tuesday.

The 34-year-old Australian has struggled in the first two races of

A two-year-old boy in Britain has reportedly become the world’s first person to be born with an extra strand in his DNA.
Alfie Clamp was born blind and with severe disabilities, which led doctors to carry out various tests. The tests revealed his seventh chromosome had an “extra arm”, which has never been documented anywhere in the world before, the Daily Mail has reported.

In life, Pall Arason was an attention-seeker. In death, the 95-year-old Icelander’s pickled penis will be the main attraction at one of the world’s most bizarre museums.

The Nazi officer responsible for the arrest of Anne Frank — one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of Adolf Hitler-driven Holocaust — spied for West Germany after World War II, say

It may not be true always, but a study says that female bosses in a male-dominated environment can wreck other women’s promotion hopes.