WTF News: It's Weird, True and Funny

Rediff.com brings for its readers their weekly digest of weird news stories from around the world An 8-year-old boy from Ireland, dubbed Mini-Hercules, has become an online sensation, thanks to his......

Slain Iran protestor is Times Person of the Year

Neda Soltan, a student protester who was shot dead by Iranian militia while demonstrating against the rigged presidential elections, has been chosen as the Times Person of the Year. Soltan, 26,......

Patterns in governance failures

Birders look for patterns and distinguishing marks -- the head, the wings, the underside and the tail, the size, the colour, the beak, whether it is the morning after an overnight rain in early......

The 15 richest fictional characters

They say fortune favors the bold--but it also favors the fictional. The characters that make up this year's edition of the Forbes Fictional 15, our annual listing of fiction's richest, boast an......

IBM, Infineon plan new computer memory

International Business Machines Corp and German chip maker Infineon Technologies AG on Tuesday said they have taken an important step toward developing a new kind of memory that could enable......

Birthday special: Top 10 Bruce Willis movies

Happy 60th Birthday, Bruce Willis. It’s hard to believe Bruce Willis is 60. Sure, he occasionally looks older, but there is that twinkle in his eye -- that twinkle we remember from......

Here's how Angelina Jolie can crash YOUR computer system

Get your lowdown on what's going on in the world of Hollywood, right here!Two days after Forbes named her the highest-paid actress in Hollywood, Angelina Jolie has become the unwitting star of......

Dara Singh's Most Memorable Fight

Wrestler-turned-actor Dara Singh, who passed away this morning, will always be remembered for one of the most exciting fights in the history of wrestling competitions when he lifted an almost 200kg......

PIX: Crystal Palace clinch unexpected draw with Man City

IMAGE: Crystal Palace's Michael Olise celebrates scoring their second goal with David Ozoh and Naouirou Ahamada. Photograph: Carl Recine/Reuters Michael Olise scored a stoppage-time penalty as......

PIX: Chelsea lose at Southampton, Fulham beat Brighton

A summary of Tuesday's action in the Premier League. IMAGE: Romeo Lavia celebrates scoring Southampton's opening goal with Kyle Walker-Peters during the Premier League match against Southampton,......

Where is the young talent in the IPL?

Flash, he'll save everyone of us... That was theme of the movie Flash Gordon immortalized by The Queen, in Freddie Mercury's famous voice. Four years ago when the then Noah of cricket......

Best sporting quotes from the past 10 years

'I'm Lightning Bolt. I'm not Flash Gordon or anybody. My name is Lightning Bolt.' Usain Bolt clarifies after setting a second World record at the 2008 Beijing...

South Africa whip India again

Scorecard| Images Justin Kemp's maiden limited-overscentury helped South Africa fightback andscore a 106-run victory over India in the third one-day international in Cape Town on Sunday. Kemp was......