Russians spend an average of 27 minutes every day waiting in queues, longer than anywhere else in Europe.

This dismal statistic is mainly due to huge numbers of people at post offices and banks, a su

British researchers may have uncovered a partial answer to the age-old question, "what came first the chicken or the egg?"

According to a team, comprising researchers from the University of Warwick

IIT-Kanpur will soon form a committee to probe the death of one of its students following an uproar among his batch mates. Rakesh Kumar Thakur, who hailed from Bihar's Darbhanga district, died on July

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) MP, Ms Brinda Karat, has written to the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, urging a separate law to deal with honour killings instead of referring the issu

Brussels, July 9: The European Union on Friday allocated $2.52 million in aid for the people affected by the present situation in Jammu and Kashmir.

“Fatalities still occur in the region, and armed g

The Congress President, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, on Saturday asked the minister of state for coal, statistics and programme implementation, Mr Sriprakash Jaiswal, to make inquiries into the death of an 8-yea

Washington, July 9: It is amazing but true. Even as tonnes of oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, experts have discovered two new fish species in the now polluted waters.

A research describes the new sp

Doctors discovered more than 20 needles in the body of a Brazilian woman, the media reported on Saturday.

The 35-year-old woman in the state of Para complained of aches in her ear, and the needles we

Abu Dhabi, July 9: The vuvuzela, the plastic trumpet made famous by the football World Cup in South Africa, is in trouble in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the authorities here have issued a fatwa

Sydney, July 10: Harry, a 700-kg crocodile living in a Darwin crocodile park Saturday backed Paul the octopus in picking Spain to win the World Cup.

The crocodile took less than a minute to decide an