Sydney: Australian cricket sponsor Victoria Bitter has promised to give free beer to every Australian adult if the home team beats England in the upcoming Ashes series.

If the Australian team takes

British singer James Blunt has said that his refusal to obey an order from a US General helped avoid a potential World War III.

Blunt, a former captain in a senior regiment of the British Army, said

Nairobi, Kenya: Paul and Rachel Chandler - the British couple held hostage by Somali pirates for 388 days - have been given the news that Paul Chandler's father died while the couple were in captivity

Mumbai: Hollywood star Pamela Anderson, who will enter a TV reality show this week, today shot a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, urging to reject all leather products.

Pamela in a letter to

Dehra Dun: Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata today said he did not enter the airline business as he was not comfortable with the idea of bribing a minister, as had been suggested by an industrialist.

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London: The Secret Service Agents, who were at former US President John F Kennedy’s side when he was assassinated, have broken their silence after 47 years.

Clint Hill and four other agents discuss t

New Delhi: Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, released from prison on Saturday, once lived at the bungalow here that is the Congress headquarters, occupying a room now held by Rahul Gand

Melbourne: Cheating seems to be getting advanced with Oz students outsourcing essays to foreign sweatshops to get their work done at cheaper rates.

Websites such as canadianessays.com, realassignment

New Delhi: The right to education act might have made education compulsory for children in the 6-14 age group, but very few government schools in Delhi seem to be aware of this as they have been allow

New York: You’d think that food, water and shelter were some of the important requests of evacuees who had to flee as the Indonesian volcano Merapi erupted recently, but that’s not the case.

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