Finally enjoying some time on the town with one another, Rosie Huntington Whiteley and beau Jason Statham were side-by-side in London on Thursday (October 14). The couple made their way around town after having hit up A-list hot spot Nobu and the Soho House during a much-deserved date night the previous evening. As the couple [...]
An international team, led by an Indian-origin scientist, has suggested that vitamin A found in foods such as carrots and broccoli could help combat pancreatic cancer, which has the lowest survival rate of all cancers. Once diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, most patients do not survive more than 1 year. Dr Hemant Kocher of Barts Cancer [...]
Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni led from the front as beleaguered India redeemed themselves with a 126-run win over England in the first one-dayer in Hyderabad on Friday. Dhoni smashed an unbeaten 87 off 70 balls to power the injury-ravaged world champions to 300-7 after he won the toss and chose to bat on a sluggish [...]
Finance ministers of the G20 group of nations are meeting in Paris to continue talks on solving the eurozone debt crisis. One question is whether the International Monetary Fund should increase in size as part of a broader global response to the situation. However the idea has been met with some resistance by the US, [...]
A senior al Qaeda member, Ibrahim al-Banna, was killed in a drone attack in southern Yemen late Friday night, the country’s defense ministry said. The ministry added that al-Banna was the head media officer for the terrorist group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Al Banna was one of at least three people killed [...]
After four weeks of focus on Wall Street, the campaign against the global banking industry is coming to the UK this weekend, with the biggest event aiming to “occupy” the London Stock Exchange. The protests have been organised on Facebook and Twitter pages that between them have picked up more than 15,000 followers. Campaigners are [...]
India’s Tata Nano, billed as the world’s cheapest car, will go on sale in Bangladesh on Saturday – but with a price tag nearly triple what it is at home. The least expensive no-frills Nano will cost Tk 599,000 ($7,900), said Abdul Matlub Ahmad, director of Nitol Motors — Tata’s sole distributor in Bangladesh. That [...]
Finance minister A M A Muhith is spreading confusion over the Padma bridge project, BNP acting secretary-general says. “The World Bank says there has been corruption in the project and sent a letter to the government suspending its fund for it. On the other hand the finance minister is creating a smoke screen by saying [...]