To develop new scientific approaches for treatment of diseases like cancer, India's Department of Biotechnology and the University of Cambridge are setting up a new initiative for chemical biology and molecular therapeutics at inStem, Bengaluru.

Jos Buttler headed to Sri Lanka with reigning champions England's World Twenty20 squad having at last convinced himself he can succeed as an international batsman.

The 22-year-old Somerset batsman ha

Wikileaks has sparked outrage by saying that the Libyan embassy was attacked because the US has backed Britain's threats to storm the Ecuadorian embassy in London and arrest Julian Assange.

Prince William and his wife Catherine reacted with fury on Friday after a French magazine printed topless photos of her, saying it evoked painful memories of press harassment of William's mother Diana

New words like amazeballs, mummy porn, paan and blootered have been included in an online version of Collins English Dictionary, which ran a competition for new words between July and August.

The dic

Indian poet-writer Jeet Thayil’s debut novel Narcopolis was among the books chosen for the six-book shortlist for the Booker Prize in London on Tuesday.

America's prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology has grabbed the top slot from UK's Cambridge University in a list of world university rankings for 2011-2012.

However, UK universities hav

Parents in the UK splash out more on new clothes, accessories and school uniform for their little girls than they do on their sons, according to a new study.

Playing violent video games could be a good way to cope with pain as it increases your tolerance by up to 65 per cent, a new study has found.

A man, who is believed to be a stowaway, fell thousands of feet to his death from a Heathrow-bound jet liner on a car parked in a quiet residential street.

A bloodied body of the young man, who crash