The ultimate solution for climate finance will be under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate...

Pope Benedict XVI Friday signed a highly anticipated pastoral letter to Catholics in Ireland dealing with a child sex abuse scandal involving priests, the Vatican...

US citizen David Headley has pleaded guilty to finding the targets for the 2008 attacks on the Indian city of...

The BBC has reported that the UN's former envoy to Afghanistan, Kai Eide, has made strong criticisms of Pakistan's recent arrest of high-ranking Taliban...

China is to host the coal mining industry at a special forum in Beijing in...

Lawyers for film director Roman Polanski have filed an appeal to ask for a special investigation into alleged judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in the fugitive director's 32-year-old sex...

Former 'Friends' star Jennifer Aniston has revealed it is her 'dream' to settle down and start a family with a 'great...

Australian actress Toni Collette is glad her acting career is not based on her normal looks because she prefers to play 'rich and complex'...

Hollywood actress Kristen Stewart who took up the offer to play Joan Jett in 'The Runaways' had to face difficulty during singing in the...

In a novel study, Oxford scientists have developed a gel that may soon heal the misery of cleft palates in...

'Hanna Montana' star Miley Cyrus was welcomed by boyfriend Liam Hemsworth's family. He revealed his parents 'loved' his...

Japanese scientists have developed a genetically modified mosquito that vaccinates as it bites and could help prevent the spread of...

Socialite Nicole Richie has revealed she is still undecided on her wedding...

Rapper 50 Cent insists he has no intention of quitting the music industry but admits he will have to change if he wants to continue to be one of the world's biggest...

Troubled English singer Pete Doherty has branded the British prison system a success, insisting jailing criminals stops them...

A British Phd student has discovered a terrifying new species of dinosaur in China, an eight-foot long creature with scythe-like...

Pop star Janet Jackson's struggle with her much-talked about weight problems began at the age of 10 when TV producers asked her to lose weight for a role, she...

Whitney Houston's lawyer has dismissed 'ridiculous' media reports that the singer-actress was heading back to a rehabilitation...

Hollywood actor Robert Pattinson is worried about the fate of his upcoming film 'Remember Me' as it isn't the 'happy romantic drama' audiences may be...

Producer Rob Fusari has filed a $35 million lawsuit against singer Lady Gaga alleging that she dumped him as soon as she became a...

Singer Peter Andre is in the process of completely switching off ex-wife Katie Price with the removal of her name tattooed on his wedding-ring...

Designer Alexander McQueen will be posthumously honoured by the fashion world at an industry event in...

Actress Katherine Heigl faced an embarrassing situation when one of the straps broke on her red dress in the middle of her acceptance speech at an award function in Las...

Liverpool will face Benfica in the quarter-finals of the Europa League following Friday's draw at UEFA headquarters in Nyon while Atletico Madrid take on Primera Liga rivals Valencia in an all-Spanish...

Moving to the next phase in the ongoing rehabilitation of the two clouded leopards in Greater Manas, the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) has now initiated their night...

Australian swimmer Stephanie Rice booked a place at the 2010 Commonwealth Games to be held in New Delhi when she hit top form by upsetting former world champion Jess Schipper in the 100m at the selection trials in...

The British taxpayers' bill after former Prime Minister Tony Blair gave evidence at the Iraq inquiry for a single day on January 29 was 273,000...

Australian all rounder James Hopes is likely to miss the Twenty20 World Cup and the Indian Premier League (IPL) after he sustained a calf muscle injury in the Sheffield Shield final at the Melbourne Cricket...

England off-spinner Graeme Swann, whose 10-wicket haul in the first Test against Bangladesh lifted him to second place in the world bowling rankings, has said that he is proud to be first England bowler to have reached the spot in last six...

A beauty salon in Chennai has attempted to enter the Guinness Book of World Records on Thursday by braiding hair that are more than 100 feet...

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has said that more convention with international organisations should be organised to help Indian cinema go...

Scottish actor Gerard Butler is to play a foul-mouthed and perverse leprechaun in an upcoming...

Jamaican sprinter and three-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt has put on hold his plans to challenge American sprinter Michael Johnson's 400metres world record until after the 2012 London...

Space tourists will be again able to fly on Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station in two to three years, Russia's top space official said...

Six out of ten Britons believe that Prime Minister Gordon Brown lied to the nation about forces'...

Director Tim Burton is reportedly planning a 3-D version of popular TV horror-comedy 'The Addams...

French and British officials have discussed a nuclear deterrence-sharing scheme but Britain has opposed the idea 'so far' on grounds of political unacceptability, a media report said...

Spanish actress Penelope Cruz prefers earrings and bracelets to...

Atonement, Ian McEwan's novel about class and love set in the Second World War, is to become an...

Barcelona striker Thierry Henry reckons that no other football player in the world can come close to matching fellow team-mate Lionel Messi on current...

Reiterating that Pakistan has done enough in the 'war on terror' and has successfully forced militants out of Swat and other tribal regions, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said it is now Islamabad's turn to ask the international community, particularly the United States, to do more to help it fight against xtremists more...

England manager Fabio Capello has confirmed that injured David Beckham has been invited to the World...

South African golfer Ernie Els has vowed to make life tough for Tiger Woods on the course as well as off it after the World No.1 announced his plan make his return during Augusta...

With India and China lifting more and more of their urban population out of slum-like conditions every year, 227 million people across the world have moved out of urban slums over the past decade, according to a UN-Habitat report on the state of the world's...

The Achilles tendon injury of ace midfielder David Beckham can heel in time to enable him to play his fourth World Cup in South Africa, according to a top sports...

Leaders of the so-called Middle East Quartet of the UN, US, European Union and Russia are meeting in Moscow Friday for talks on the way forward in the impasse on the Israeli/Palestinian...

Disgraced golfer Tiger Woods' alleged mistress Joslyn James has put 122 explicit text messages sent by him on her...

'Baywatch' star Pamela Anderson says Damian Whitewood is the only man in her life and that he gets her 'undivided...

The Pakistan Cricket Board's (PCB) chief selector Mohsin Khan has said that the final decision regarding naming the captain for the forthcoming ICC T20 World Championship would be taken by the board chairman Ijaz...

Notwithstanding previous controversies, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt has appointed his 'close friend' Yawar Saeed as the manager of the national squad for the upcoming ICC T20 World Championship, which would be held in the Caribbean from April 30 to May...