The Washington Post newspaper's crossword puzzle had special meaning this weekend for one local couple.

With the complicity of the daily broadsheet, Corey Newman, 28, of Alexandria, Virginia, propose

Indian American cancer specialist Siddhartha Mukherjee has won this year's Pulitzer prize in the general non-fiction category for his book 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer'.

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Storms and tornadoes that hit the southeastern US over the weekend have left at least 47 people dead in six states.

The National Weather Service said the worst was still to come, NBC reported.

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The next time you are at home or office, watch out for ninja robots. They may be hiding in the bedroom closet or under your desk. These stealthy robots hide to avoid human detection and their main tas

Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif has hit out at Western nations for air raiding his country on a premise he termed as false as Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, while insisting that his r

Scientists have found a way to make wonder material graphene magnetic, which they claim could open up a new range of opportunities for the world’s thinnest material in the area of spintronics.

Scientists have found a way to make wonder material graphene magnetic, which they claim could open up a new range of opportunities for the world’s thinnest material in the area of spintronics. A team led by Prof Andre Geim, a recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize for graphene, has shown that electric current — a flow of electrons — can magnetise graphene, the latest edition of the Science journal reported.

An architect has developed a floating set of Olympic facilities that can be reusable and easily transported to new coastal locations.

When Olympics are over, the stadium and sports facilities remain.

India has warned that surging oil prices could jeopardise recovery of the global economy which is already vulnerable to a variety of risks, including political and social turmoil in parts of the world

Walter Bruening, a retired railworker who was the world’s oldest man, has died in the US state of Montana at the age of 114.
Breuning died on Thursday of natural causes at a Great Falls hospital, Stacia Kirby, spokeswoman for the Rainbow Senior Living retirement home where he has lived since 1980, told local media. Breuning attributed his long life to eating only two meals a day for the past 35 years.