Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, the Briton's closest rival, finished only sixth after an early collision with Red Bull's Max Verstappen left the German fighting back from 19th place.
A video captured in Fairbanks, Alaska, showing a strange "thing" swimming in the Chena River, has set the Internet on fire.
Saurabh Pandey of fotokatha shares some stunning pics he clicked during his visit to Kenya's beautiful game reserve Maasai Mara.
We don't know what kind of a beast the Lokpal Bill would turn out to be. Nor, for that matter, what shape it would take when processed by Parliament. It could well be constitutional, perhaps even draconian. It could even be useful to curb the widespread corruption that runs deep. The anti-corruption law is into the future. Whatever it turns out to be, we need to thank Anna Hazare for it.
A recent study showed that partners who match up equally in the looks department tend to make a relationship work better. We take a look at a few celeb couples and ask readers to take tell us whether they're well-paired, appearance-wise!
Departing from protocol, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday personally extended a warm welcome to United States President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle at the Palam Air Force Station in New Delhi.
The Obamas have a packed schedule during the three days they are in India. But we still decided to go ahead and dare the most powerful man in the world to do some stuff that only Indians can endure. There are a couple of them for Michelle as well.
The female boxers have to spar against a host of obstacles. They all dream of glory in the ring, accompanied by the kind of prize money that will give them a better life than Katanga can offer.
Hindi cinema has not just explored various instances of brute force, but often glorified its misogyny.
Nadal and Williams headline party for all ages at US Open
At the heart of the Duster 1.3 Turbo X-Tronic is a turbocharged engine paired to a 7-speed CVT, the same engine that also powers the Mercedes A-Class, CLA and GLA-Class entry-level models! Now if only Renault had put some thought into the all-new Duster's interiors and driver comfort as they did in the engine... Rajesh Karkera/Rediff.com test-drives the old beast with a new heart.
As male bovines today account for only 28 per cent of India's cattle, it clearly shows that it is the bulls and not the cows that are mostly being butchered. This makes it clear that cow slaughter is not a problem but the slaughter of male bovines is whose main utility today is in the value of their meat, says Murad Ali Baig.
Whether roles for women get better or not, women are getting better at their craft with each passing year. In 2019, we saw some of our finest female actors show us exciting new facets of their capabilities in ways that'll inspire how roles ought to be written for years to come.
Where the human aspect of Godzilla fails, technology more than does its bit. The glee it evokes, no matter how meaningless or momentary, is worth the price of admission, feels Sukanya Verma.
The aircraft flew out from the airbase in the French port city of Bordeaux and will cover a distance of nearly 7,000 km with air-to-air refuelling and a single stop in the United Arab Emirates before arriving at Ambala airbase on Wednesday, officials said.
Graphic artist Divya Thakur has undertaken to create a show, 'Animania', inspired by the animals venerated in Indian mythology as deities.
Alex Pettyfer talks about his movie I am Number Four and his Bollywood plans.
The Howdy Modi put a dagger into the heart of the 'bipartisan consensus' in the US regarding the relations with (Modi's) India, points out Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Writer-director Suparn Verma, and Rediff.com correspondent Abhishek Mande are attending the Jaipur Literature Festival, billed as the 'the greatest literary show on earth'.
The JLF has also become one of the most preferred platform to launch new authors and network. It is no surprise then that prominent publishing houses vie for space at the venue. In its 2011 edition, the JLF will see some young and old names gathering again to discuss books, lock horns and back slap each other.Writer-director Suparn Verma, and Rediff.com correspondent Abhishek Mande are at Jaipur attending the festival.
'Some of his decisions were not so good, but his intentions were always guided by a deep national interest.'
Ahead of the wedding, Priyanka Chopra, who stars on the cover of Vogue's January issue, opened up about their journey together.
The actor had to be put on a special diet of burgers and fries to get into the skin of the former US president for the HBO series, The Special Relationships.
tribal boy from West Bengal has received a scholarship to a college in Gloucestershire renowned for its sporting prowess and has qualified to play rugby for Gloucestershire side Longlevens RFC. 20-year-old Sailen Tudu was spotted playing rugby barefoot on wasteland in Kolkata and has won a scholarship to a college in Gloucestershire.
The Tata Safari is an SUV which was the big brash brutish bully of the road in the early 2000s before the Toyota Fortuner snatched that crown. The car's styling still harkens back to the pre-Zest era of Tata Motors but there is still a whole lot more than what meets the eye. Therefore, the people at MotorBeam decided to induct the powerful Varicor 400 variant of the new Tata Safari Storme in their long term fleet to test out whether the big burly beast is still relevant or not.
While that may not differ too much from the scenario in many group stage matches pairing the big beasts of the game against those nations who occupy lower rungs of the FIFA rankings, the X-factor in Kazan could be Carlos Queiroz.
Pietersen said in his stirring address, which focussed on highlighting the relevance of Test cricket.
'We should encourage all of our partners in the counter-terror world to break up these cells and use any intelligence gained to undermine and weaken this threat. This is a good counterterrorism policy, a good policy for keeping India assured that we take their concerns seriously in the war on terror, and a good way to put pressure on Islamabad to finally take on Lashkar at home,' Bruce Riedel observed.
A sneak peek into three Alienware gaming laptops: their specs, performance, ratings and price.
The US, and may be many more countries, is facing a grave cyber risk from an army of Chinese hackers.
What if we made X-Men here in India?
Five of the planes, which are often called 'Beasts of Burden', are undergoing modernisation work in the Ukrainian capital since early this month as part of a $400 million accord under which their payload-carrying capacity will also be increased, IAF officials said in New Delhi on Sunday.
Unlike in langars, free feeding under the food security bill may force people to swallow their shame.
The Indian Air Force's Sukhoi-30MKI fighter is a beast that is tamed only by technology. The aircraft's giant AL-31FP turbofan engines, which allow manoeuvres that no other fighter can dream of, are monitored by its pilots on high-tech computer screens called multi-function displays, or MFDs. A quick glance across the MFDs also provides information about on-board weapons and sensors, telling the pilots everything about how the aircraft is flying and fighting.
Hindi lyrics are no bar to the global appeal of his music.
Polyphonic and pluralistic, as the world's two most populous democracies, India and the European Union are beasts of similar temperament. Yet of all the countries that the EU has a strategic partnership with (there are six in total: the United States, Canada, Japan, China, Russia and India), its relationship with India is by far the least developed.Europe's eyes remain for the main part firmly trained on China.
The Delhi high court on Monday sentenced the prime convict in the 2002 Maulana Azad Medical College student rape case to life imprisonment. Observing that the accused Rahul had acted "not only as a beast but even acted savage," a bench headed by Justice Pradeep Nandrajog upheld the trial court verdict, which had sentenced him to life imprisonment. The court, however, acquitted the other convict Amit on charges of rape and directed the police to release him.
Sanjeev Bhatia, Co-Founder, Onlymobiles shares a shortlist.
United States current affairs magazine Newsweek, which had ceased publication last year to focus on its website, plans to bring back the print edition early next year.
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