10 things you should know about the new (and 1st Indian-origin) editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday.
World football body FIFA put Jerome Valcke, its second-ranking official, on leave on Thursday just hours after an ex-footballer raised allegations he was involved in a plan to resell 2014 World Cup tickets for a lucrative profit.
In this series, Rediff.com presents a selection of the year's most enduring moments year from around the world.
The movies that impressed, puzzled and stunned Sukanya Verma at MAMI this year.
Rediff.com have put together a picture gallery of the legendary footballer, model, businessman, doting father, loving husband, ambassador. Take a look...
Aseem Chhabra spots 10 must-see movies at the Berlin Film Festival.
Meet Srihari Sathe. Producer. Director. Professor.
Defending champion Geoffrey Mutai and Priscah Jeptoo won the men's and women's races at the New York City Marathon on Sunday for a Kenyan sweep in chilly, windy conditions through the city's five boroughs.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump scrambled to make their final pitch to voters in the high-stakes United States presidential polls.
Senators call for reforms of US soccer body at FIFA corruption hearing
Fading Gigolo is evidence that a movie doesn't have to mumble to be modest.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter and its secretary general Jerome Valcke have both hired high-powered US lawyers to represent them as a corruption probe roils soccer's global governing body.
The Vermont Senator and Texas senator are closing in on the lead that their competitors - Clinton and Trump hold.
From safe selfies to wife carrying championships, here's this week of wacky stories from around the world.
"Terrorists won't win," New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said after a blast at the Port Authority terminal in Manhattan during the morning rush hour on Monday, which injured four.
The Indian government refused to permit the release of Congress President Sonia Gandhi's passport because of concerns with respect to her personal security and keeping confidential the methods used to protect her. George Joseph reports from New York
A report on South Asian youth demolishes model minority myth, says George Joseph
Rediff.com takes a look at drones as they engage in activities you'd never thought you'd see.
US prosecutors may find it difficult to get a number of the people they have charged in the FIFA bribery scandal to face the music.
Sony World Photography Awards recently announced the winners of its first-ever mobile phone photography category.
'I always used to say ignore the trolls and move on and focus on your fans and friends,' Sreenath Sreenivasan tells Rediff.com's Monali Sarkar. 'That was easy for me to say. But now when I say it, I really mean it.'
'It was not an agreement, this was his proposal and of course it (then) went to the vote at the (FIFA) executive committee'
Auroville just turned 50. Aurovilians who grew up in The experimental city speak of how their childhood was marked by a sense of openness and possibility.
Aseem Chhabra lists the top 10 films at the recent Toronto International Film Festival.
A doctor who treated Ebola patients in Guinea and returned to the United States last week has tested positive for the Ebola virus, becoming New York city's first diagnosed case.
Charlotte Hornets forward Jeffery Taylor was suspended 24 games without pay by the NBA on Wednesday after pleading guilty last month to misdemeanor domestic violence assault and malicious destruction of hotel property.
Here's your weekly digest of the craziest stories from around the world.
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'I love him (Sidharth Malhotra), there's no stress. I am not nachaoing him, in films or in real life.' Alia Bhatt gets candid about what she loves.
Top 20 images of all the events of the week that was.
The tenth annual iPhone Photography Awards received thousands of entries -- all submitted by amateur photographers from more than 140 countries around the world.
Nisha Agarwal, commissioner of the New York Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs, recalls, with both anguish and elation, the events of the last fortnight after the US President's order banning entry for people from seven countries was put in place.
'Once, when I was standing around on the set one day, whining about something -- you know we were gonna work through supper or the long hours or whatever, Tommy Lee Jones said to me, 'Isn't it such a privilege, Meryl, just to be an actor? Yeah, it is, and we have to remind each other of the privilege and the responsibility of the act of empathy. We should all be very proud of the work Hollywood honours here tonight.'
Currently a ton of cocoa costs about $1,845 (1,500) at the exchange, $25,610 (20,821) at big chocolate producers like Barry Callebaut and $32,082 (26,083) in the shop.
Babulal 'Bob' Bera, US Congressman Ami Bera's 83-year-old father, faces five years in prison.
There are 2.5 lakh undocumented Indians across the United States. While President Barack Obama's executive order last week does help, only the US Congress can really address the needs of those caught in the immigration tangle.
'In 2015 I watched films in so many places. I attended several film festivals around the world -- Berlin, Tribeca (New York), Telluride, Toronto, Zurich, Mumbai, Dharamsala and Goa,' says Aseem Chhabra, author of a forthcoming book on Shashi Kapoor.
'Having a voice at the table means the other side has to show up to listen. It became clear that wouldn't happen,' says actor Maulik Pancholy, one of the 10 members who resigned from the US president's advisory commission on Asian Americans.
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