It's an odd, odd world out there!

These eight images prove that we live in a wonderfully weird world! Vishnu Limbachiya, a hair artist, styles the hair of a man while wearing a blindfold at a park in Ahmedabad. Photograph: Amit......

Sizzle in the sun: July was the HOTTEST month ever around the world

July was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth. A young woman cools off in a fountain during a hot summer day at Gorky park in Moscow. Photograph: Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters The average......

The war that changed the world

'The Russians had risen to great heights of sacrifice and heroism and won a victory against Hitler and Nazism at such a tremendous cost in spite of being weighed down by the tyranny and oppression......

World War II: 60 years later

I was sixteen years old when the Second World War ended in Europe. Though I was a keen war watcher we did not have a radio in our house and therefore the sources of news for me was The Hindu......

Russia will be ready for 2014 Winter Olympics: Putin

President Vladimir Putin told Olympic chiefs on Wednesday that Russia would have its facilities ready in time to host the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, despite rising costs and concerns about......