A rare, 55-year-old bottle of Glenfiddich single malt whisky has been auctioned for approximately `35 lakh (£42,000). The money will help build a school for physically and mentally disadvantaged children in Uttarakhand.
The bottle was sold to the highest bidder, World Duty Free Group (WDFG).

In strong criticism of US-Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch, the House of Commons select committee on culture, media and sport said in its phone-hacking report Tuesday the News Corporation chairman was “not a fit person to exercise stewardship of a major international company”.

Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, will start his week-long tour of India on Monday as part of the British royal family’s visits to the countries of the realm and Commonwealth nations to mark the diamond jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation.

Physicists have discovered a new particle composed of three quarks in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accelerator in Switzerland, confirming the fundamental assumptions of physics regarding the binding of quarks.

Robert B. Sherm-an, the composer of the Mary Poppins song Super-califragilisticexpialidocious and other Disney classics, has died in London aged 86, his publicist said on Tuesday. “He died peac-efully yesterday,” a spokeswoman for Stella Richards Management said.

Groups of chimpanzees within central Africa are more different genetically than humans living on different continents, a study has found.

Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks on Monday started releasing the first group of emails from a bundle of over five million emails from Texas-headquartered security think tank Stratfor (Strategic Forecasting Inc), obtained from its servers.

Wikileaks on Monday released files with details of Bhopal activists lobbying against Dow Chemical Company from a bundle of more than five million emails from the Texas-headquartered security think tank Stratfor.

Silent movie The Artist shone at home on Friday, netting best film and a string of other awards at France’s annual Cesars, held two days before the Oscars in which the black-and-white film is a top favourite.

German dictator Adolf Hitler’s long-lost collection of artworks has reportedly been discovered in Prague by a Czech historian, and is valued £1.7 million.