The golden boy of Indian politics may be losing some of his sheen.

Rahul Gandhi, the son, grandson, and great-grandson of Indian prime ministers has spent years positioning himself to seize what is a

The Presidential Cadillac, nicknamed ‘The Beast’ for its bomb-proof features, failed to make it out of the U.S. Embassy in Dublin on Monday when it became stuck on a ramp.

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A developer is rolling out plans to build a 500-foot viewing wheel on the Las Vegas Strip that would be higher than the London Eye and give visitors an unparalleled view of Sin City.

Developer Howard

Hundreds of millions of poor Indians who have no access to financial services could benefit from mobile banking, experts say, as cell phone use grows at breakneck pace.

Banking by phone could transfo

The hour of the apocalypse came quietly and went the same way, leaving those who believed that Saturday evening would mark the world's end confused, or more faithful, or just philosophical.

Believers

Her name Kanimozhi means sweet words. But beyond her fluent communicative skills in English and Tamil, the 43-year-old daughter of DMK supremo M. Karunanidhi has been a controversial power centre in t

When Elizabeth II was being crowned in London in 1953, the celebrations received an extra boost with the news arriving in London that Mt Everest had fallen with Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherp

A decade ago, Rahul Pawar made an unusual and risky choice, to grow flowers in the centre of India's biggest sugar-producing state Maharashtra. Now he's reaping the rewards of his 1.1 million rupee in

Eighteen years after she vowed never to set foot again in Writers' Building from where she was forcefully evicted while on dharna with a rape victim before Jyoti Basu's chamber, Mamata Banerjee on Fri

An enormous statue of John Paul II, unveiled in front of Rome's central station just weeks after the ex-pontiff was put on the path to sainthood, has sparked controversy with locals calling for it to