New York, Nov 19 (IANS) The US joint commander of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, General David McKiernan, Tuesday clarified that India has not been approached by the United States to send its troops to the troubled country. ‘That is not true,’ McKiernan said during the course of his interaction with members of [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumer prices plunged by the largest amount in the past 61 years in October as gasoline pump prices dropped by a record amount. The Labor Department said Wednesday that consumer prices fell by 1 percent last month, the biggest one-month decline on records that go back to February 1947. The drop was twice [...]

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites. The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman [...]

London, Nov 19 (IANS) British scientists were hailed Wednesday after the first tissue-engineered windpipe, built from the patient’s own stem cells, was successfully transplanted into a young woman with a failing airway. Scientists at Bristol University were in a European team that conducted the operation on a young woman from Colombia living in Spain, they announced [...]

Kanpur, Nov 19 (IANS) India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni hopes in-form Yuvraj Singh gets a third consecutive century in the third One-Day International against England here Thursday. ‘I hope he (Yuvraj) scores his third consecutive century here and that would suit the team as well,’ Dhoni told reporters after a practice session at the Green Park [...]

The campaign to keep Titian's masterpiece Diana and Actaeon on public display is given a £10m boost by the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF).

Veteran Indian film star MN Nambiar dies at home after a brief illness aged 89.

The director of the new Terminator Salvation film promises the movie will "reinvigorate" the sci-fi series.

John Sergeant has pulled out of BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing because winning would have been "a joke too far", he says.