BANGALORE, India (AFP) – Chris Gayle smashed a 12-ball 38 as Royal Challengers Bangalore posted a four-wicket victory over Kolkata Knight Riders in an Indian PremierLeague match on Saturday. The West Indies opener hit two sixes...
CANNES, France (AFP) – Cannes celebrated Bollywood with the midnight screening of a specially prepared montage of great moments in Hindimusicalcinema that didn't quite get the audience dancing in the aisles. "Bollywood: The World's Greatest Love Story" was put...
SEOUL (AFP) – South Koreanpolice said Sunday they had arrested three men suspected of making homemade explosives that caused two minor blasts in Seoul last week. The three men aged from...
China has tried to suppress a report at the United Nations suggesting that North Korea and Iran have been routinely sharing ballistic missile technology, United Nations diplomats said Saturday, expressing concern that Beijing was again working to shield the North. The report, by a United Nations...
SYDNEY (AFP) – Prime Minister Julia Gillard could soon have a wedding ring on her finger if boyfriend Tim Mathieson gets his way, although Australia's first female leader played down the suggestions Sunday. Mathieson, a former hairdresser who is known as...
The Japanese love affair with the surgical mask goes beyond health protection, though that is again at the center of a surge in mask popularity. This time the worry is nuclear radiation....
MANILA, Philippines – U.S. officials welcomed visitors Sunday to the USS Carl Vinson warship, from which Osama bin Laden's body was buried at sea, but did not discuss the ultra-secretive attack that killed him, reflecting America's concern over possible retaliation. U.S. defense officials were...
Among the material seized by US Navy Seals at Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, was a "sizeable stash" of pornography, US officials have said. The statement brought instant ridicule from bloggers, many of whom found the claim either risible, or a further example of unsophisticated...
China's largest city, Shanghai, is setting a limit of one dog per family in an effort to gain control over the soaring pet population and curb rabies. Cao Yi has already taken to walking her dogs at 11pm, hoping to avoid trouble with both neighbours and the...
