Microsoft had pasted a white man's head on to a black man's torso in a promotional photo in the Polish version of its official website.
The attacks on Indians Down Under are condemnable but the perception that Australia is a racist society is incorrect, asserted fast bowler Brett Lee.Lee, an immensely popular figure in India who has also acted in a Bollywood movie, said he is concerned by the way the Indian media is reporting about the attacks."I've been trying to explain to the Indian media that we're not a racist country," Lee was quoted as saying by 'The Daily Telegraph'.
Force India rejected a report on Friday that they were in danger of being forced out of business and said their new Formula One car would start testing as planned in Spain next week.
France has for the first time accepted its role in the holocaust, acknowledging that it "willingly" deported thousands of Jews to their deaths in concentration camps during World War II.
A consortium of Indian and Abu Dhabi investors, which is believed to include steel czar Lakshmi Mittal, is planning to bid for UK property company British Land, says a media report.
Taliban is in turmoil in Afghanistan after its top leadership sacked a senior commander for disobeying orders, British intelligence officers stationed in that country have claimed.
Terrorist organisations are using driving tests in the UK to open bank accounts needed to move money in and out of the country to fund their operations, a news report revealed on Sunday. The British authorities have stepped up action to stop the fraud with a far reaching undercover operation.
Iran could have a nuclear bomb by 2010, a leading international think-tank has warned. According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Iran will amass enough low-enriched uranium this year which could put it on course to build a nuke weapon by the end of the next year, The Daily Telegraph reported.
Stung by the umpiring bloopers in the second Ashes Test, Australian media on Monday spit venom on match officials, seeking the sacking of Rudy Koertzen and flaying the other "circus clown" Billy Doctrove.
A European team claims to be working on such a fantasy car which can drive itself -- in fact, tests would start next year on such vehicles that 'drive themselves' and could be on roads within 10 years, The Daily Telegraph reported.
Prince Albert II of Monaco has launched a drive to reclaim land from the Mediterranean Sea and create an area around 12.5 acres -- roughly the size of five football pitches, with a ground-breaking scheme to allow the tiny population to expand, The Daily Telegraph reported.
Captaincy had bogged down fiery English batsman Kevin Pietersen to such an extent that he now equates the job to facing an oncoming train and says it gets worse when the team performs badly.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is locked in a power struggle with the army over his plans to ease tensions with India and his assertion that Taliban, not India, is the greatest threat to his country, a news report said today.
Satellite imagery, passed to The Daily Telegraph, reportedly shows that a substantial harbour has been built, which could house a score of nuclear ballistic missile submarines and a host of aircraft carriers. The daily reported that one photograph shows China's latest 094 nuclear submarine at the base just a few hundred miles from its neighbours. Other images show numerous warships moored to long jetties and a network of underground tunnels at the Sanya base at Hainan Island.
Bank of England Governor Mervyn King has topped the list of 100 most powerful business people in the public sector and non-governmental organisations compiled by The Daily Telegraph. Vadera, parliamentary under-secretary of State for Business and Competitiveness, Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, is ranked 20th.
Britain and Norway made a last minute bid to save the lives of two Tamil Tiger leaders but in vain as Sri Lankan troops closed in, the media reported on Saturday. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's political chief, B Nadesan, and peace secretariat head, S Pulidevan, had attempted to surrender, The Daily Telegraph said, in a report quoting Vijay Nambiar, the United Nation Secretary-General's envoy.The men were later found dead.
According to a list of UK's 100 most powerful people in technology and telecom sector, published today by the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sarin won the top slot. Nikesh Arora, internet search giant Google's Indian-origin president for Europe, Mid-East and Africa, is ranked fourth.
The award to the star was announced on 13 October "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".
Want to spice things up in the bedroom? Well, then turn your attention to a new book that provides tips on how to turn on your partner.
According to movie gossip websites, Christensen, the face of Anakin Skywalker -- who became Darth Vader -- in the recent Star Wars series, is playing one of the leading Hollywood superheroes, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Ministers have promised to clear the 450,000 so-called 'legacy' cases, some of which date back to the 1990s, by 2011.
Quoting a leaked memo, The Daily Telegraph reported that the Home Office also lost track of tens of thousands o migrants who should have left the country at least six years ago, and some as far back as the 1990s.
Australian media lauded its World Cup winning team on Monday.
Steve Smith's defiant century on day one of the Ashes series restored the former Australian captain to hero status in the eyes of a grateful nation.
The participants were given financial decision tasks that allowed them to choose "less money now" or "more money later". The addicts chose the "now" reward almost three times as often.
An intelligence officer was quoted in the Daily Telegraph as saying that officials of MI6, the British intelligence agency, entered into peace talks with the Taliban, over several meetings this summer.
North Korea's dictator Kim Jong-il is seriously ill and may only have a few months to live, a British newspaper reported, quoting a source within the family of the reclusive "Dear Leader" as saying. "He does not have all that much longer to live and my sources say the doctors' diagnosis is that he will die before the end of the year," Prof Toshimitsu Shigemura, an expert on North Korea at Waseda University, told The Daily Telegraph.
Vodafone Group, the world's biggest mobile phone group by revenue, is to end its sponsorship of the English cricket team following a strategic review of its sponsorship portfolio. Vodafone and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said in a statement that the current four-year sponsorship agreement would conclude at the end of the winter tour of South Africa in January 2010.
According to the report from the European Information Technology Observatory, Britons spend more on electronic equipment than shoppers in any other country in Europe, The Daily Telegraph reported on Tuesday. Consumers in Britain are expected to spend more than 11 billion pounds this year on electronic gadgets, making them bigger spenders than those in Germany (9.3 billion pounds), France (7.2 billion pounds) and Italy (4.3 billion pounds).
About 80 per cent of Sicilian businesses cough up a pizzo, of as much as 350 pounds a month. However, the burgeoning power of Cosa Nostra in Sicily, the Camorra in Naples, the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria and the Sacra Corona Unita in Puglia, has led to the infiltration of bigger businesses as well.
Ricky Ponting's over-rate woes after spin wizard Shane Warne's retirement have cost the Australian cricket team a hefty 130,000 dollars in fines so far.
Continuous terror attacks in the sub-continent has cast a shadow over the 2011 Cricket World Cup to be jointly hosted by India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh with the International Cricket Council contemplating of keeping a stand-by venue for the mega-event. According to a report in The Daily Telegraph, the ICC is expected to discuss the issue in its Executive Council meeting in South Africa next week.
'We believe the pause was too long between the time Ashwin reached the crease and the moment it was reasonable to expect the ball would be delivered'
The product of a two-and-half-year testing process involving some of the world's biggest stars was on view as Adidas on Tuesday night unveiled the Brazuca, the official match ball for next summer's World Cup.
Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal has just been named the richest person in the UK for fourth year in a row, but when it comes to being a powerful businessperson, he lags behind four others in the British manufacturing industry.According to a list of 100 most-powerful business people in the UK's manufacturing sector released by the Daily Telegraph, India-born Mittal has been ranked fifth.
Workers of a recession-hit textile company in south-west France have been asked to shift to India to work in its factory in Bangalore for a pittance or face a sack, a media report has said. Nine employees at Carreman textiles plant in Castres, south-west France, were told that they could continue workingfor the firm only if they relocated to Bangalore and accepted a meagre monthly salary of 48 pounds per month, The Daily Telegraph said.
Paul Collingwood wants to captain England at this year's Twenty20 World Cup even though he is not considered good enough for a starting place in his Indian Premier League (IPL) team.
German supermodel Heidi Klum has doled out dieting tips to those who are taking to the catwalk for the first time.
Moms-to-be, please note! Walking around in early labour is better than lying flat, researchers have claimed.
The most astonishing find was a Tchaikovsky violin concerto featuring the violinist Bronislaw Huberman, a Polish Jew who fled Vienna in 1937 and was publicly declared an enemy of the Third Reich, according to the daily.
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