Scientists claim to have finally confirmed what Rudyard Kipling wrote a century ago about how the leopard really got its complex spots.
A British team has proved the author’s theory in the Just So Stories for Little Children that the unusual pattern provided camouflage to leopards in an environment “full of trees and bushes and stripy, speckly, patchy-blatchy shadows”.

DIRECTOR ANANTH Mahdevan, famous for scripting and directing Bollywood films, decided to use Marathi for his film about the life of Maharashtrian social worker Sindhutai Sapkal.

Supermodel Naomi Campbell has praised French President Nicolas Sarkozy because he treats her friend and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy like a princess.

A NEW STUDY at the University of Oxford asserts that high meat consumption is not only bad for the health of our planet but also for the general health of the population.

Murder mystery writer Agatha Christie was fed up with Hercule Poirot but kept on penning stories about the Belgian detective under pressure from her publishers, her grandson has revealed.

Rumours are rife that Prince William and his longtime girlfriend Kate Middleton could soon announce their engagement after the Royal Mint in Britain has struck a mould for a coin “to celebrate their w

In what could raise hopes of millions suffering from age-related vision loss, scientists have developed a new drug based on vitamin A which they say could effectively stop the advance of macular degen

Three years prior to the 2008 Mumbai attacks, the FBI was warned of the strikes and David Headley’s links with the LeT by the wife of the Pakistani-American terrorist, says an investigative report.

Reliance chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani, the richest man in India, took a step away from limelight on Friday night as his wife Nita, who runs 12 schools and the Mumbai IPL team, gave a l

In a major setback to the Anglican Church in the UK, Rev. John C.