A photo symbolising "love and compassion" of an 85-year-old Brazilian woman getting her first embrace in five months from a nurse through a transparent "hug curtain" has been named the World Press Photo of the Year. This year, according to organisers, 74,470 images were submitted for judging, made by 4,315 photographers from 130 different countries. World Press Photo has been kind enough to allow to share some of this year's winning photos here with you.
India's premier technical institute, IIT-Bombay's golden jubilee celebrations -- to be held in New York from July 18 to 20 this year -- have stirred a hornet's nest. The reason is that Dow Chemicals is one of the main sponsors.
UP Power Minister Shrikant Sharma stirred up a hornet's nest with his tweet terming the Congress president a 'coward and impotent'.
A few insurers offer you and your family insurance products that offer protection against swine flu.
Images from Tuesday's IPL match between Mumbai Indians and Kolkata Knight Riders, in Chennai.
"This is very unfortunate, appalling for a prime minister to say so," BJP chief Rajnath Singh said.
China's new National Stadium, the centrepiece of the Beijing Olympics, was opened to international media for the first time.
China unveiled an extravagant farewell to the Olympics on Sunday and David Beckham, the world's most famous football player, said hello by kicking a ball to start the countdown to London 2012. The appearance of Beckham on top of a red double-decker bus that unfolded into a hedge-clipped silhouette of London sent 91,000 fans into a frenzy in the futuristic Bird's Nest stadium.
Kenya's Sammy Wanjiru led an African sweep of medals on the final day of the Olympics on Sunday to give his country its first Olympic marathon title.
Michael Johnson lost his 200 metres world record to an extraordinary run by new Olympic double sprint champion Usain Bolt on Wednesday and predicted the big Jamaican could now take his 400 mark too. Johnson, who won the 200m and 400m double at the 1996 Atlanta Games, was as impressed as anyone in the 91,000 capacity Bird's Nest crowd when Bolt shaved two hundredths of a second off his previous 200m world best to win gold again.
Jamaica's Usain Bolt hopes to become the first man since Carl Lewis in 1984 to win an Olympic sprint double on Wednesday.
China's star hurdler Liu Xiang said he knew before Monday's ill-fated heat that his foot would fail him and that he had no choice but to pull out. Liu was the host nation's best hope of an athletics gold medal at the Olympics and his pained withdrawal from the 110m hurdles startled this country where his image hangs on countless billboards.
A world record pole vault for Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva and an electrifying 800 meters run by 18-year-old Kenyan Pamela Jelimo lit up the Bird's Nest Stadium on Monday evening.
Even at early stage, start-ups are raising more money faster owing to the rise of a lot of specialised early-stage VCs and emergence of seed-stage programmes.
India's emergence to the top spot, over the fourth last year, was revealed by a survey conducted by a widely-read British magazine Conde Nest Traveller, which gives away Readers Travel Awards, considered to be the Oscar awards of the tourism industry
Global Positioning System would be used by Forest Department officials in Gujarat to keep track of the movement of endangered bird species.
'It may be prudent not to plunge into a new online tax appeals system in one go, which could only create more disputes and increase the embarrassingly high tax arrears of the government,' warns A K Bhattacharya.
Thackeray ridiculed the speculation of a political overtone to their nearly two-hour long one-on-one conversation. "We are polls apart when it comes to ideological convictions," he asserted. "Sharadbabu is my friend for the last four decades. He came to inquire about my health. We had a hearty talk which had nothing to do with politics," Thackeray said in Tuesday's editorial of the Sena mouthpiece Saamna.
Wimbledon was invaded by thousands of flying ants on Wednesday, causing much annoyance to players, officials and ticket holders alike - but there was little anyone could do to drive out the pests.
The culinary dividends of venturing south of Times Square and even to outer boroughs can be high indeed, if you know where to look.
The fourth seeds scored a 3-6, 6-3, 10-5 win over Czechs Tomas Berdych and Lukas Dlouhy in the first round of the Miami Masters.
The fire broke out at Ninho do Urubu, a state-of-the-art training centre that was expanded and opened only two months ago.
The mother of murdered British teenager Scarlette Keeling has gone into hiding in Goa saying she feared for her safety. The 43-year-old Fiona MacKeown on Sunday said that she wanted court protection after "stirring up a hornet's nest" in Goa by accusing police officials, politicians and local drugs mafia of a cover-up, The Daily Telegraph reported on Monday.
'No chief minister there has completed a full term other than Sucheta Kripalani in the mid-1960s.'
A 30-year-old woman was murdered allegedly by her husband who chopped her body into three pieces inside their flat in Bhayander in Mumbai's neighbouring Thane district.
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Sarah Jessica Parker has topped a poll no female star would ever want to be seen on - 'The Unsexiest Woman Of The Year'.
The protest was held after the arrest of a student artist in Baroda.
The idea that home itself could have hitherto undiscovered delights, was a nice one for Geetanjali Krishna.
Army vice chief apologises for his remarks on women officers
Even as the war of words continues within the Aam Aadmi Party, photographs emerged on Thursday of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal practicing naturopathy at the Jindal Nature Cure Institute in the outskirts of Bengaluru.
Our readers from across India have shared their mesmerizing travel pics.
The robot can hold long conversations, track the child's mood and is controlled from an app on the parents' smartphone
Four police personnel -- a woman joint commissioner, two women constables and a sub-inspector -- were injured in stone-pelting, the police said, even as reports emerged that some protesters were also hurt.
Just a generation ago, a person with $2 million or more in liquid assets would have had enough for a secure retirement. But not today. Combine longer life expectancies and the rising costs of health care, food, transportation and property, and you have financial challenges ahead for the mMillionaire.
