A person’s dental patterns can identify a person as accurately as DNA testing in forensics.

A lock of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte’s hair was part of a collection of relics from the last years of his life that were auctioned in New Zealand.

Rachael Faye Hill at 21 will become the youngest doctor in Britain in July, breaking the record of Indian-born Heenal Raichura who finished her degree at St.

A summer vacation in Nepal turned into bleak tragedy for an Indian couple from Bihar with their three-year-old daughter drowning in a jacuzzi in an upmarket resort.

The top US spy chief believes Osama bin Laden is hiding in Pakistan.

A senior Central government official and his aides were bribed $32,000 in cash and jewellery while their travel and hotel expenses were also picked up by a subsidiary of Dow Chemicals, which took over the Union Carbide company after the 1984 Bhopal gas leak tragedy, to push its substandard pesticides in the Indian market, a case filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) says.

Alarmed by the steep rise in suspected honour killings, the Central government has decided to bring a new bill providing for the prosecution of the entire khap panchayat for ordering violent punishment for young couples marrying against their diktats, a senior minister said on Sunday. The Central government will soon come out with a law against honour killings and a draft has already been prepared, law and justice minister M. Veerappa Moily said on Sunday.

The mystery surrounding the Karachi-bound ship, intercepted on the Hooghly with arms and ammunition used by multi-national troops in a United Nations peacekeeping mission, was resolved on Sunday with the UN authorities confirming the consignment.

Congress legislator D. Sudarsanam died following cardiac arrest on Saturday night in Coimbatore, where he was attending the World Classical Tamil Conference, hospital authorities said on Sunday.

A farmer’s field near an ancient Roman villa excavated in Buckinghamshire has yielded a long-buried secret — it was a graveyard for prostitutes’ babies slaughtered by the Romans.