Raza work may fetch £1.3-1.8m
Eminent Indian painter Sayed Haider Raza’s painting Saurashtra is being auctioned in London next week and it is estimated to sell for £1.8 million.
‘Hurl Berl’game targets Italy PM
Anti-poverty campaigners Bono and Bob Geldof have unveiled an online game targeting Silvio Berlusconi — a hammer thrower in the game hurls the Italian Premier’s cartoon character into the air.
Is China world’s 2nd biggest arms spender?
China has emerged as the world’s second biggest arms spender for the second consecutive year after the US, splurging a staggering $100 billion despite the global financial crisis, according to a Swedi
Elizabeth releases love letters from Burton
They divorced twice and went on to marry different people but screen icon Elizabeth Taylor has revealed that Richard Burton longed for another reunion on the day he died.
Monroe’s photo with JFK on sale
The only photograph showing Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe and the US President John F. Kennedy together, taken moments later she sang “Happy Birthday” for him on May 19 1962, is up for auction.
Bond’s Aston Martin car may fetch £4m
The Aston Martin car that James Bond drove in the film Goldfinger is expected to fetch £4 million at an auction.
Row over council job ad in UK
A job advertisement open only to black and minority ethnic graduates has created furore in Britain.
First-born a rockstar, middle PM, youngest actor
Many parents may not buy this story, but a new study in Britain says that the order in which children are born can determine their later career paths.
Britons may support proportional system
British voters seem to be overwhelmingly keen to abandon the first-past-the-post system of voting and are keen to switch to proportional representation.
Gunman kills several in UK, body found
The British police on Wednesday afternoon found the body of a gunman who went on a shooting rampage and killed at least five people and injured 25 people in the tourist region of Cumbria in England.