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Royal wedding dresses from around the world

Royal wedding dresses from around the world

Rediff.com17 May 2018

Will Meghan Markle's wedding dress match up to these?

Battle of the brands: H&M takes on Zara

Battle of the brands: H&M takes on Zara

Rediff.com16 Dec 2020

Zara could rake in Rs 1,571 crore sales in 2019-2020. H&M, which came in five years later, grew its revenue to Rs 1,729 crore.

Ibrahimovic to play last game at PSG on Saturday

Ibrahimovic to play last game at PSG on Saturday

Rediff.com13 May 2016

Zlatan Ibrahimovic said on Friday he would leave Paris Saint Germain after four years during which he played an integral part in turning the club into a force to reckon with on the European stage.

Transfer talk: Serie A strugglers Parma sign Varela, Rodriguez

Transfer talk: Serie A strugglers Parma sign Varela, Rodriguez

Rediff.com21 Jan 2015

Parma, joint bottom of Serie A alongside Cesena, have signed Uruguay midfielder Cristian Rodriguez and Portugal forward Silvestre Varela, both on loan, the club said on Tuesday.

Day 9: What's hot at the Beijing Winter Olympics

Day 9: What's hot at the Beijing Winter Olympics

Rediff.com13 Feb 2022

Snow blankets Games, delays Gu's return to competition

The Dream Goals of Euro 2020

The Dream Goals of Euro 2020

Rediff.com5 Jul 2021

Lorenzo Insigne curled a quite wonderful shot beyond the reach of Belgium goal-keeper Thibaut Courtois after jinking in from the left flank.

Cosmology trio win Nobel Physics Prize

Cosmology trio win Nobel Physics Prize

Rediff.com8 Oct 2019

The Nobel Prize in Physics was on Tuesday awarded with one half to James Peebles for his theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology and the other half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for discovering an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.

La Liga Photos: Leaders Barca stumble to draw at Sociedad

La Liga Photos: Leaders Barca stumble to draw at Sociedad

Rediff.com14 Dec 2019

Real Sociedad are fourth in the table on 28 points, three points behind third-placed Sevilla.

Cop-drug nexus: Goa home minister's son named

Cop-drug nexus: Goa home minister's son named

Rediff.com14 Jul 2011

Lucky Farmhouse, a prime witness in the Goa drug peddler-policemen nexus case, on Thursday said she has given a detailed deposition before the Swedish police in which she has named Goa Home Minister Ravi Naik's son Roy.

How models are spending their time in self-isolation

How models are spending their time in self-isolation

Rediff.com31 Mar 2020

Staying at home is the best way to fight coronavirus and this is how models are self-isolating themselves.

Serum gets nod for phase 2, 3 trials of Covid vaccine in India

Serum gets nod for phase 2, 3 trials of Covid vaccine in India

Rediff.com3 Aug 2020

Currently, phase 2 and 3 clinical trials of the Oxford vaccine candidate is going on in the United Kingdom, phase 3 clinical trial in Brazil and phase 1 and 2 clinical trials in South Africa.

How can anyone eat so much and yet stay fit?

How can anyone eat so much and yet stay fit?

Rediff.com8 Jun 2018

American model Hilary Rhoda's Insta food feeds are so tempting you'll fall in love immediately.

Virus Made Us Love the Internet Again

Virus Made Us Love the Internet Again

Rediff.com3 Aug 2021

The wave of enthusiasm for digital technology had faded as we'd grown more and more worried about what smartphones and social media were doing to society and to us as individuals. Now that switchback ride between hopes for the technology and fear of it seemed to have taken us on another upward path, as the virus made us fall back in love with it. Read on for an intriguing excerpt from Rory Cellan-Jones's Always On: Hope And Fear In The Social Smartphone Era.

Srikanth sets up clash with Lin Dan at Denmark Open

Srikanth sets up clash with Lin Dan at Denmark Open

Rediff.com17 Oct 2018

Srikanth needed 35 minutes to get the better of local hope Vittinghus 21-16, 21-10 in the opening round of the US$7,75,000 tournament.

Football PIX: Everton avoid Cup scare

Football PIX: Everton avoid Cup scare

Rediff.com9 Jan 2021

Everton's Abdoulaye Doucoure scored an extra-time winner as they edged Rotherham United 2-1 in an absorbing FA Cup

WikiLeaks founder may soon call it a day

WikiLeaks founder may soon call it a day

Rediff.com7 Sep 2010

Assange is currently under investigation in Sweden after two Swedish women separately accused him of rape and molestation.

IKEA acquires 14-acre plot in Bengaluru for third India store

IKEA acquires 14-acre plot in Bengaluru for third India store

Rediff.com1 Jun 2017

Store will directly employ 500-700 people, half of them women, and create 1,500 jobs indirectly

Time to Lockout the Lockdown

Time to Lockout the Lockdown

Rediff.com1 May 2020

'We need to have the courage to take a rational look at known facts and act accordingly,' advises Mohan Guruswamy.

Brazil opens the door for Indian navy and Gripen

Brazil opens the door for Indian navy and Gripen

Rediff.com30 Oct 2014

SAAB's Sea Gripen constitutes a new option as the INS Vikrant's light fighter

Assange out of jail, vows to 'continue his work'

Assange out of jail, vows to 'continue his work'

Rediff.com17 Dec 2010

Emerging a free man, Julian told a crowd of journalists: "It's great to feel the fresh air of London again. I thank all the people around the world who had faith in me".

French author Patrick Modiano bags Nobel prize in literature

French author Patrick Modiano bags Nobel prize in literature

Rediff.com9 Oct 2014

French writer Patrick Modiano has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, The Swedish Academy said on Thursday.

Foreign powers want to 'defame' Indian tea, Modi says in Assam

Foreign powers want to 'defame' Indian tea, Modi says in Assam

Rediff.com7 Feb 2021

The prime minister was apparently referring to Swedish environmentalist Greta Thunberg's controversial 'toolkit', which she tweeted and then deleted, outlining ways in which people can participate in the farmers protest.

Decoding the Kamala Harris Phenomenon

Decoding the Kamala Harris Phenomenon

Rediff.com20 Jul 2021

Kamala succeeded as she identified herself with the larger minority groups rather than narrow ethnicity, prodded by her mother who did not want to return to India, observes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan, who has done multiple stints in India's embassy in Washington, DC.

PIX: Portugal, Poland, Senegal punch ticket to Qatar World Cup

PIX: Portugal, Poland, Senegal punch ticket to Qatar World Cup

Rediff.com30 Mar 2022

Images and a round-up of all the World Cup qualifiers played across continents on Tuesday.

Al Qaeda involved in Sweden's first terror attack?

Al Qaeda involved in Sweden's first terror attack?

Rediff.com13 Dec 2010

The blasts in Stockholm indicate a possible link to the so-called 313 Brigade of Ilyas Kashmiri, says B Raman

Delhi pollution choking boxers ahead of world championships

Delhi pollution choking boxers ahead of world championships

Rediff.com13 Nov 2018

The AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships is taking place in an indoor stadium from Thursday through to November 24 but teams are complaining about a toxic smog hanging over the city, caused by seasonal burning of crop stubble and emissions from vehicles and industry.

Indian weightlifters 'boycott' China-made equipment

Indian weightlifters 'boycott' China-made equipment

Rediff.com22 Jun 2020

Claiming to be saddled with faulty equipment from China, the Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWLF) on Monday called for a boycott of sports apparatus made in that country after the violent face-off in eastern Ladakh killed 20 Army personnel last week. The IWLF ordered four weightlifting sets, comprising barbells and weight plates, from Chinese company ZKC last year. The body said that the equipment turned out to be faulty and the weightlifters are no longer using them.

World is looking at India as a trusted friend: PM Modi in Sweden

World is looking at India as a trusted friend: PM Modi in Sweden

Rediff.com18 Apr 2018

Modi said that in the last four years the government has worked for creating a New India by 2022.

Amazing images of supercar Koenigsegg Agera R

Amazing images of supercar Koenigsegg Agera R

Rediff.com21 Aug 2012

Koenigsegg is a Swedish manufacturer of high-performance sports cars.

Saab eyes make in India route for short-range missiles

Saab eyes make in India route for short-range missiles

Rediff.com11 Apr 2018

India is looking for a VSHORAD system to replace its ageing system from Russia and would be sourcing more than 5000 missiles and 1200 launchers.

Tennis Roundup: Vardhan bags 2nd title, Paes loses

Tennis Roundup: Vardhan bags 2nd title, Paes loses

Rediff.com22 Jul 2017

Vishnu Vardhan won his second Challenger level title of the season with Japanese partner Toshihide Matsui but four other Indians, including Leander Paes, tumbled out of various ATP events across the globe.

Economics Nobel for India-born Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, M Kremer

Economics Nobel for India-born Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, M Kremer

Rediff.com14 Oct 2019

Banerjee, 58, was educated at the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D in 1988. He is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Serum Institute to start phase-2 trials of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine

Serum Institute to start phase-2 trials of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine

Rediff.com19 Aug 2020

The institute expects to complete both, phase-2 and 3 trials in India by the end of this year.

OMG! Models in wheelchairs on the ramp

OMG! Models in wheelchairs on the ramp

Rediff.com19 Sep 2017

In a first of its kind fashion show, models with prosthetic limbs and wheelchairs walked the runway at the London Fashion Week.

Pentagon may be behind rape charges: Assange

Pentagon may be behind rape charges: Assange

Rediff.com23 Aug 2010

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange believes that the Pentagon could be behind the false rape charges that were filed against him on Friday by Swedish prosecutors and then withdrawn after a few hours. "I don't know who is behind this but we have been warned that the Pentagon plans to use dirty tricks to spoil things for us," Assange told Swedish daily Aftonbladet. So far, Pentagon has not reacted to the charge.

Oxford jabs effective against severe Covid: US trial

Oxford jabs effective against severe Covid: US trial

Rediff.com22 Mar 2021

The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is also being produced as part of a tie-up by the Serum Institute of India.

Ibrahimovic tightlipped on future

Ibrahimovic tightlipped on future

Rediff.com27 May 2016

Ibrahimovic said he had received offers from the Premier League, Italy and outside Europe but gave no more details.

Look who wore the $1 million Fantasy Bra this year!

Look who wore the $1 million Fantasy Bra this year!

Rediff.com9 Nov 2018

Victoria's Secret model Elsa Hosk put on a show-stopping display in a $1 million fantasy bra.

Racism row over Stockholm Marathon prize money

Racism row over Stockholm Marathon prize money

Rediff.com24 Apr 2015

Accusations of racism have forced organisers of the Stockholm Marathon to change their proposed plan to give prize money to only Nordic runners.

Soderling clinches Rotterdam title

Soderling clinches Rotterdam title

Rediff.com15 Feb 2010

Swedish third seed Robin Soderling clinched the World Indoor Tournament title when opponent Mikhail Youzhny withdrew injured when trailing 6-4, 2-0 in the final on Sunday.