Maoists have killed a villager in Orissa's Koraput district suspecting him to be a police informer, police said on Monday.

Over a 100 armed rebels killed 30-year-old Kendraka Ghansi at Gotiguda villa

Five Taliban insurgents, including their commander, were killed in Afghanistan's Ghazni province by Afghan and Nato-led troops, police said on Monday.

"Afghan and international troops raided Taliban

Nothing energises the body like a nice warm drink on a chilly morning. But did you know that bees also act like humans when they feel cold.

A study by entomologists Melanie Norgate and Adrian Dyer f

Bacteria are known to cause some of the most repulsive smells on earth. But believe it or not, now scientists have revealed this lowest of life forms too has a sense of smell.

A team of marine micro

The following are the highlights of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Independence Day address to the nation Sunday:

* The central government will do everything possible for rehabilitation of the affe

Teenage pregnancies have become a major concern in Costa Rica as 14,000 girls under the age of 19 became pregnant and over 500 girls under 14 years gave birth last year.

In 2009, a total of 570 girls

A yet to be identified man hurled a brown leather shoe at Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Mr Omar Abdullah, during the Independence Day function at a heavily-guarded stadium here on Sunday.

Mr Abdu

Hollywood heartthrob Robert Pattinson has fuelled the long-running reports that he is dating his Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart as he was seen cosying up to the lady on the sets of a film.

The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, will on Tuesday visit devastated Leh in Jammu and Kashmir that was hit by flash floods caused by a cloudburst, an official said here on Sunday.

"The PM will und

The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, on Sunday condoled the deaths of people in the devastating flash floods caused by sudden cloudburst and said the government "will do everything" possible for reh