Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet US President Barack Obama at the White House on September 27, with India’s national security adviser Shivshankar Menon saying the groundwork had been done for a “very successful visit” to boost trade and defence ties.

Cloning a Beatle! Scientists are trying to extract DNA of John Lennon from his tooth in an attempt to clone one of the rock music’s greatest stars.

Actress Melanie Griffith’s daughter Dakota Johnson has emerged as the favourite for the female lead in the big screen adaptation of raunchy bestseller Fifty Shades Of Grey.

The Sun has unleashed a powerful storm, sending an enormous cloud of superheated particles rocketing towards Earth at a mind-boggling speed of 3.3 million kilometre per hour.

Katy Perry’s single Roar has turned out to be a bestseller on iTunes and now she wants her boyfriend John Mayer’s new album Paradise Valley to do well. The singer took to Twitter to gush about her beau and his work with her fans, reported Us magazine.

A collection of cigars that belonged to German dictator Adolf Hitler’s deputy and close confidant, Hermann Goering, may fetch up to £1,200 at an auction in the UK. Specially made for Goering, the cigars were taken from the cellars of the Reichsmarschall’s home in Brandenburg.

The Pakistan Cricket Board has rubbished Rashid Latif’s claim that an alleged Indian bookmaker Annu Bhatt was a guest of the Board in 2005-06, terming the former captain’s accusation as “baseless and stupid”.

The Game Of Thrones star Sophie Turner has adopted her character’s dog after falling in love with the pooch on-set.

Waking up to a new year! Researchers have discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet 700 light-years away that whips around its host star in a mere 8.5 hours — one of the shortest orbital periods ever detected.

Cosmic jewellery! Some of the earliest iron artefacts ever found — beads strung into a necklace found in a 5,000-year-old Egyptian cemetery — were made from a meteorite, archaeologists said.