Britain on Friday mour-ned the death of English-American author and journalist Christopher Hitch-ens, who passed away after losing his long battle with cancer. Sixty-two-year-old Hitchens died in Houston of pneumonia, a complication of cancer of the oesophagus, Vanity Fair magazine said.

A French museum on Thursday paid over $1 million for English writer Charlotte Brontë’s unpublished manuscript at an auction in London.

Indian-origin academic Bharat Tandon, who is an expert on Jane Austen, has been named a judge for next year’s Man Booker Prize.

Anti-corruption Indian activists living in Britain, who held a demonstration at Tavistock Square in central London to show support for social activist Anna Hazare, are planning to start working at the

Film actor-director Dev Anand’s family will return to India with his ashes for the last rites next week.

Hindi film actor-director Dev Anand’s funeral will be held at Putney in southwest London on Saturday morning.

A British Olympic hopeful has put himself on auction to raise sponsorship in order to intensively train for the 2012 London Games.

The family of Hindi film actor-director Dev Anand, who passed away in London on Saturday night, confirmed on Tuesday that he will be cremated in London.
Anand, who had turned 88 this September, had died of a sudden cardiac arrest at his Mayfair hotel in his sleep on Saturday night.

The family of Hindi film actor-director Dev Anand, who passed away in a London hotel on Saturday night due to cardiac arrest, has yet to announce the final plans for his funeral. “We have put together a rough plan of what we are going to do

The family of Hindi film actor-director Dev Anand, who passed away in a London hotel on Saturday night due to cardiac arrest, has yet to announce the final plans for his funeral.