A satellite for monitoring the country's forest cover will be launched in 2013, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Monday.

"A forestry satellite will be launched in 2013 so that we can monitor the fores

London, Aug. 9: A New York restaurant is offering a dessert, containing 24 carat edible Swiss gold and lined with 23 carat edible gold leaf, for a mind-boggling £15,730.
Besides the £15,730

(Rs 11.6

A man threw both his shoes at Pakistan President, Mr Asif Ali Zardari, when he was addressing a public meeting in Birmingham. The shoes landed just short of him.

The Telegraph on Sunday reported that

The relationship between India and China is a complex one but will be the "big story of the 21st century", the foreign secretary, Mr Nirupama Rao, said.

Ms Rao said that an "intelligently transacted

Over 80 people were killed and 2,000 went missing on Sunday morning after landslides triggered by torrential rains hit northwest China's Gansu province, an official said.

The landslides occurred at a

An electric pole surveyor in Australia had a miraculous escape when he suffered only partial burns on being hit by a power surge of 12,700 volts.

The 35-year-old unidentified man suffered partial bur

Drink a bottle of beer in three seconds and go home richer by 100,000 yuan ($14,700). This was the challenge at an annual beer carnival in China.

Over 20,000 local people and tourists showed up for t

A small plane crashed into a home in Pennsylvania state, US, on Saturday, killing at least two people.

The plane — a twin-engine BE58 Beech Baron — crashed into the house in a rural area about 140 km

Conservative, Mr Juan Manuel Santos, took office on Saturday as Colombia's new president, to succeed his former boss Alvaro Uribe with a four-year mandate.

The ceremony in Bogota's Bolivar Square was

Surgeons extracted a hairball weighing 700 grams from the stomach of a 12-year-old Argentine girl suffering from a rare psychological disorder that makes her compulsively eat inedible objects, an offi