UK to impose bond on Indian students
Britain’s new immigration minister Damian Green has indicated that students from India and other non-European Union countries will have to furnish a bond of a specified amount before coming here to study at British institutions.
Drogba delivers Chelsea double
Didier Drogba’s second-half free-kick ensured Premier League champions Chelsea completed a domestic double for the first time in the club’s history by beating Portsmouth 1-0 in the FA Cup final on Saturday.
Men’s thick foreheads, jaws due to ‘fights over women’
Men developed thicker foreheads and jaws due to fighting over women in the past, according to anthropologists.
A new study has claimed that winning a mate used to depend only on physical prowess and men with the strongest jawlines and thickest skulls were better able to survive onslaughts from love rivals.
Homeopathy is witchcraft, say UK docs
Describing homeopathy as “witchcraft”, a body of junior doctors in Britain has voted overwhelmingly to seek a blanket ban on the practice of the alternative medicine.
Heavyweight Blues eye double
Some still sniffily dismiss Chelsea as arriviste upstarts but by becoming the seventh club to complete the double on Sunday they would take another solid step in establishing themselves as real football heavyweights.
Having won the Premier League title in scintillating style with an 8-0 thrashing of Wigan Athletic last week, C
Crowe wants to do masala Hindi movie
Hollywood star Russell Crowe wants to do a typical Bollywood movie and says he can do his own singing and can dance a little bit too.
Bundchen top-earning model with $25m
Brazilian stunner Gisele Bundchen has been named the world’s highest-earning supermodel beating the likes of Heidi Klum and Kate Moss.
Early-age birds were poor flyers
The earliest birds did not have strong enough feathers to take to the air by flapping their wings and were gliders at best, researchers said on Thursday.
A black hole that a galaxy flung out
A student astronomer has claimed to have pinpointed one of the most dramatic phenomenons of the universe — a “super-massive” black hole that has been flung out of a distant galaxy at high speed.
Bruni starved of sex: Book
French First Lady Carla Bruni is not getting enough sex with her flamboyant hubby President Nicolas Sarkozy because of his hectic schedule, a new book has claimed.