London: An Anglo-German team of astronomers has discovered a new planet orbiting a nearby sun at just the right distance for an Earth-like climate that could support life.
The team actually found three new planets orbiting the star 44 light years away, but only one of them is in the so-called Goldilocks Zone, the band around [...]
London: The Metropolitan Police have arrested four persons, including a 40-year-old woman, in connection with the stabbing of retired Lieutenant General KS Brar, who had led ‘Operation Blue Star’ 28 years ago to flush out pro-Khalistani militants from the Golden Temple.
“Officers from the MPS have this evening arrested three men and one woman on suspicion [...]
London: Lt Gen KS Brar, who was assaulted by four people in central London on Sunday night, is convinced that it was an attempt to assassinate him by “pro-Khalistan elements” for his role in the 1984 “Operation Bluestar”.
Brar, who kicked and fought three of the four assailants, suffered a knife wound in the neck and [...]
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has revealed that he ended up burning his face with a UV lamp just before giving a speech from the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, because he did not want to appear past-faced.
He told a newspaper that he was so concerned at his pale complexion caused by his [...]
London: Slain Libyan Muammar Gaddafi was killed by a French secret serviceman acting on the orders of Nicolas Sarkozy, it has emerged.
Well-placed sources in Libya have revealed that the motive was to stop Gaddafi being interrogated about his highly suspicious links with Sarkozy, who was France’s President at the time.
Now, Mahmoud Jibril, who served as [...]
London: British Prime Minister David Cameron kept unpopular finance minister George Osborne in place on Tuesday in a reshuffle he hopes will revive the Conservative-led government’s fortunes halfway through a term dominated by recession and austerity.
Cameron’s office billed his first cabinet rejig as a game changer for a government finding it increasingly difficult to heal [...]
London: Foreign ministers from countries across South America have backed Ecuador’s decision to grant Wikileaks founder Julian Assange asylum.
A joint statement by the members of the Union of South American Nations, said that it supported the country “in the face of the threat” to its London embassy, where Assange has taken refuge.
Foreign ministers of the [...]
London: Star boxer Vijender Singh is only a bout away from repeating his medal performance of the Beijing Games following a narrow win in the pre-quarterfinals at the London Olympics 2012 on Thursday. Vijender pipped US rival Terrel Gausha 16-15 in a thrilling bout to enter the quarterfinal of the men`s 75 kg boxing category. [...]
London: Mexico ended its medal drought in Olympic archery here Thursday with a double triumph for Aida Roman and Mariana Avitia, who came away with the silver and bronze respectively. South Korea`s Ki Bo-bae beat Roman in the final to take the gold. Roman, 24, reached the finals after victories over Miki Kanie of Japan, [...]
London: Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal moved a step closer to realising the Olympic dream of winning the first medal in badminton for the country after reaching the semifinals of the women’s singles at the London Olympics 2012 on Thursday. World No.5 Saina took only 39 minutes to pack off the 33-year-old veteran Dane Tine Baun [...]
London: Leander Paes and Sania Mirza defeated Serbian pair of Nenad Zimonjic and Ana Ivanovic in staright sets to enter the mixed doubles quarter-final of the Olympic Games, here on Thursday.
Paes-Sania beat the Serbian pair 6-2 6-4 in only 64 minutes to set up a last eight clash with top seeds Max Mirnyi and Victoria [...]
London: Rifle shooter Gagan Narang opened the medal count for India at the London Olympics by winning a bronze here Monday, and hopes for more laurels were still alive with Indian stars doing well in badminton and tennis. Badminton star Saina Nehwal got the better of Belgian Lianne Tan to enter the women`s singles pre-quarterfinals [...]
London: India’s Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna started their Olympics campaign with a hard fought win against Max Mirnyi and Alexander Bury in the first round of men’s doubles at the Wimbledon here Monday. The seventh seed pair of Bhupathi and Bopanna, who had revolted against the All India Tennis Association (AITA) decision of pairing [...]
London: In a move to please its transgender student community, the Oxford University has introduced a new academic dress code which allows men to wear skirts or stockings to exams and formal occasions while women can wear suits or white bow ties.
Under the old regulations, male students were required to wear a dark suit with [...]
London: A leading British tabloid has helped expose a major visa scam that could have compromised with the security of London Olympics.
The scam involved a ring of corrupt Pakistani officials and politicians, ‘The Sun’ said, adding it could give potential terrorists the chance to enter Britain with Pakistan’s Olympic team.
The investigation was centred on the [...]