More and more, young urban adults in India are developing obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes, suggesting that rising rates of cardiovascular disease could appear in the future, an Indian study

New York City livery cab drivers, often called to crime-ridden neighbourhoods that yellow taxis tend to ignore, are being armed with bulletproof vests, an advocacy group said on Tuesday.

Citing some

A replica of the White House has been put on the market for 4.65 million dollars.

According to Curbed, the presidential pad, which is on the market in McLean, Va., is smaller than the real thing, but

Apple has reported a 95 per cent jump in net profit to $5.99 billion in the January-March quarter of 2011 on strong sales of iPhone and Mac computers.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, German chancellor Angela Merkel and pop music heartthrob Justin Bieber are among the world's 100 most influential people, Time magazine announced on Thursday.

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Jennifer Egan’s inventive novel about the passage of time, A Visit from the Goon Squad, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, honoured for its “big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed.

The Los Angeles Times has won a Pulitzer Prize for public service for revealing that politicians in a small, working-class California city were paying themselves exorbitant salaries.

Video-sharing website YouTube has announced that the British royal wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William will be shown live on the website's live streaming channel.

The live stream will focus

After six weeks of presenting evidence, the prosecution and the defence will on Wednesday make closing arguments in the trial of Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam's case.

Actor Nicolas Cage was taken into custody after allegations of domestic violence in New Orleans.