Jan. 11: Argentina’s Lionel Messi won the World Player of the Year for the second time in a row on Monday and Jose Mourinho walked off with the coach’s award, leaving Spain’s World Cup winners disappo

Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner is taking back the bunny after months of negotiations. Playboy Enterprises Inc, the iconic magazine publisher known for its bunny ears and centrefold photo spreads of naked women, plans to go private in a deal that values the company at $207 million.

US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords battled for her life on Sunday after an assailant shot her in the head and killed six others in a rampage that has launched a debate about extreme political rhetoric in America.

Jan. 10: Software firm iGate is buying a majority stake in Patni Computer Systems for $1.2 billion, helping it to take on bigger rivals in the export-driven IT services industry.

US-listed iGate, b

Jan. 10: At least 77 people were killed in Sunday’s passenger plane crash in northwestern Iran, IRNA, the official news agency, reported on Monday. The Iran Air Boeing 727 crashed while attempting to

Jan. 4: Maruti Suzuki, India’s largest car maker, joined peers in reporting robust sales for December, underlining the momentum in one of the fastest growing auto markets.

Maruti and rivals including

Santiago, Chile: A strong 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit central Chile on Sunday, driving panicked residents from their homes due to fears of a tsunami but causing no injuries or damage.

Last February,

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has allowed 7 more banks to import gold and silver, data on its website showed.

Karur Vysya Bank, Punjab and Sind Bank, South Indian Bank, State Bank of Bikaner and Ja

Dec. 30: The former Israeli president Moshe Katsav was found guilty of rape and other sex crimes on Thursday which could see him jailed for years, in what the Prime Minister, Mr Benjamin Netanyahu, ca

New York: Facebook has surpassed Google for the first time as the most visited website in the United States for most of 2010.

The social network site edged out Google.com with 8.9 per cent of all U.S