India

With the FIFA World Cup just three weeks away, Brazil are still the top ranked team while Argentina and France have slipped down.

Chromosome 1 contains 3,141 genes and is linked to 350 illnesses including cancer, Alzheimer's.

In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Robert Langdon matches wits with a faceless powerbroker.

The World Cup history on display at a Berlin exhibition shows how political tensions can overshadow "the beautiful game".

CPI-M leader Buddhadev Bhattacharya will on Wednesday again be sworn-in as the chief minister in the newly elected Assembly.

An argument over plaster of Paris dust took an ugly turn and led to the murder of Sanjiv Pansare by his neighbour.

With diabetes still seen as a social stigma, young diabetics face problems of getting married and saving marriage.

In five years you will be able to fit text from 8 million books into a cartridge half the size of a VHS tape.

Last week an international quartet which includes Russia agreed to provide financial aid to Palestine.

A ranch-style Memphis home that Elvis Presley bought sells for $905,100 on the online auction service eBay.

The 360-kg spacecraft hit a defunct Pentagon satellite because of faulty navigational data

The US said it is restoring normal diplomatic relations with Libya for the first time in over a quarter century.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said the US president should be imprisoned by an international criminal court.

Eight persons were killed in violence in the first phase of Panchayat elections in Bihar on Monday.

UP CM and Samajwadi Party supremo, Mulayam Singh Yadav claimed his govt had done maximum work for emancipation of Muslims.

N Rangasamy is likely to be sworn in as the Chief Minister of Pondicherry for the second successive term on Thursday.