The UN Security Council on Thursday voted to ban flights in Libya's airspace and authorised military action to implement the ban, triggering intervention by individual countries and organizations like Nato.

Singer and songwriter Neil Diamond was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday, crooning his signature mellow rock songs in a stark contrast to fellow inductee heavy metal band Alice Cooper.

British rock legend Eric Clapton parted with 70 of his guitars in a charity auction on Wednesday that drew hundreds of fans and aficionados, and broke sale estimates.

Chinese President Hu Jintao, who rules over one-fifth of world's population, has topped the list of world's most powerful person while UPA chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi has been ranked ninth by the US Forbes magazine.

A US court has issued summons to India's Congress party to answer charges of 'conspiring, aiding, abetting and carrying out organized attacks on Sikh population of India in November 1984'.

Frasier star Kelsey Grammar has tied the knot with former air hostess Kayte Walsh, just weeks after his divorce from third wife, Camille, was finalised.
The couple exchanged vows in front of friends and family at the Longacre Theatre in Broadway where Grammer had been starring in La Cage Aux Folles until recently.
During the ceremony, the bride, 29, and groom, 56, read out poems they had written for each other, reported New York Post online.

Chronicles of Narnia producer and novelist Perry Moore has died of an apparent drug overdose in what’s being suspected as a suicide case. He was 39.
The producer was found unconscious by his partner Hunter Hill in the bathroom of their posh Soho apartment after overdose of painkiller OxyContin, the New York Daily

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said only a political solution will end the war in Afghanistan and voiced hope that rank-and-file Taliban could be split off from Al Qaeda extremists.

India on Saturday said that the Indian students of California-based Tri Valley University, which has been shut down on charges of massive visa fraud, should be absorbed into other US universities and not victimised.

The Church of Scientology, which has some high-profile followers like actor Tom Cruise and John Travolta, has been investigated by the FBI for allegedly being involved in human trafficking, American media reports said.