A British city is offering free English language lessons to foreign-origin taxi drivers with a poor grasp of the language.

American writer Barbara Kingsolver has won this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel The Lacuna.
Fifty-five-year-old Kingsolver, who is based in Arizona, United States, is famous for her book, The Poisonwood Bible, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 1999.
Booker prize-winner Hilary Mantel had been a bookie favourite to win the £30,000 prize, which was presented to Kingsolver by Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, at a ce

Indian-born France-based artist Syed Haider Raza’s painting Saurashtra was on Thursday afternoon auctioned for £2,393,250, a world record for any modern Indian work of art.

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has lost faith in the US strategy in Afghanistan and is increasingly looking to Pakistan to end the insurgency, according to reports in the British media from Kabul.

Sourav Ganguly will captain Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in a side featuring cricket great Brian Lara when they face the touring Pakistanis in a Twenty20 fixture at Lord’s on June 27.

The football World Cup, which kicks off on Friday, will be insured to the tune of an estimated $9 billion, according to the Lloyd’s of London insurance market.
Just one of the world’s leading players, at the height of their career and playing in a top league such as England’s Premier League or Italy’s Serie A, could be insured for $73 million, Lloyd’s said in a statement.

Even as the British Airways dispute continues, London Underground maintenance workers on Wednesday announced their decision to go on two 48-hour strikes in a row over jobs, pay and conditions.

The Labour leadership race officially started on Wednesday and five MPs, Andy Burnham, Ed Balls, David Miliband, Ed Miliband and Diane Abbott, will be contesting for the top party post.

The Tory-LibDem coalition government announced on Wednesday that it will introduce compulsory English language tests for immigrants coming to marry or join their partners, who are citizens or permanen

Actress Sandra Bullock had pre-arranged her kiss with Scarlett Johansson at the MTV Movie Awards, says a source.