Labour MP Barry Gardiner on Tuesday urged the UK government to drop controversial American chemical giant, Dow Chemical Company, as the sponsor of the London Olympics over the Bhopal issue.

Britain’s MI5 intelligence agency investigated, without success, for almost six years to ascertain whether actor-director Charlie Chaplin was actually born in France or whether he was a Russian of Jewish origin named Israel Thornstein.

The French silent film, The Artist, swept the British Academy film awards on Sunday night with seven wins, including the best film, best director, best actor and original screenplay prizes.
The Artist award bandwagon was briefly halted by American actress Meryl Streep, who depicted former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron lady, a biopic on Baroness Thatcher’s life. She won the best actress Bafta.

Hyderabad resident Praveen Reddy, an MBA student in London, is in critical condition after being stabbed multiple times in his heart and lungs.

Have you ever wondered why plants never get sunburnt? This is because plants make “sunscreen” in their leaves, say researchers.

An ale created a furore in the UK on Thursday, leading to some women MPs asking the House of Commons to withdraw it from sale.

It may now appear to be just the stuff of science fiction, but scientists say a mind-reading device is inching its way ever closer to reality.

Four British Muslims on Wednesday admitted in court that they had been involved in an Al Qaeda-inspired plot to unleash a Mumbai-style atrocity in London.

A British court on Monday announced that it will decide by March-end the extradition case of Mohammed Hanif Umerji Patel also known as “Tiger Hanif”, wanted in India in connection with the 1993 bomb blast in Surat.

It’s official. Male sex drive is at the root of most conflicts worldwide — from football hooliganism to world wars, says a new study.