A black Mercedes-Benz given to singer Kylie Minogue by her sister Dannii went under the hammer for £14,950 here and the siblings have decided to donate the proceeds to charity.

Teen pop sensation Miley Cyrus’s ex boyfriend Justin Gaston has stripped off for animal rights organisation Peta’s latest campaign.

Struggling to remember something you wanted to do today? Then take a nap, it may help improve your memory, a new study has claimed.

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a “massive, muscular woman” who they believe could possibly be a female gladiator during the Roman occupation of Britain.

Playing on a sponsor’s exemption from good friend Tiger Woods, struggling Arjun Atwal made the most of the opportunity and grabbed a share of the lead with a fine four-under 66 in the opening round of the AT&T National here.

Divisions within the ICC on Friday deepened with Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand asking John Howard not to withdraw his candidacy for the vice-president’s post even as new president Sharad Pawar hit back at his detractors saying the former Aussie PM did not have the numbers.

The CBI has filed a chargesheet against Mr Manoj Modi, a top lieutenant of RIL chairman, Mr Mukesh Ambani, and five others in a case relating to masking of international calls as local, causing huge revenue loss to the government.

The UK-based Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) on Friday announced the sale of its retail and commercial banking business in India worth $1.8 billion (Rs 8,500 crore) to British banking major, HSBC.

On the heels of the market leader SBI extending its concessional home-loan rates, the mortgage leader HDFC on Friday announced its 8.25 per cent teaser rate home-loans till the end of August.

The RBI on Friday proposed limiting annual salary increases of chief executive officers or wholetime directors of private banks to 10-15 per cent, besides a provision for slashing remuneration in case of poor financial showing.