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We have big plans for India: Christie's 15 Dec 2015 - 12:00 pm

File photo of Christie's World Art head William Robinson as he auctions a painting by Indian artist Tyeb Mehta at an hotel in...

Social media link to attacks poses conundrum 15 Dec 2015 - 08:54 am

San Francisco: Pressure is growing on social networks to play a bigger role in finding and weeding out jihadists and others looking to...

Samsung takes Apple patent case to US Supreme Court 15 Dec 2015 - 08:49 am

San Francisco: Samsung, on the losing end of a massive smartphone patent lawsuit, appealed on Monday to the US Supreme Court in hopes...

Some days fruit is enough, other days chocolate is needed 15 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

By Melissa D'Arabian If you were to join my family for dinner on a regular weeknight, you’d see our typical dessert routine in...

Dutch schoolkids get scary taste of refugee life 14 Dec 2015 - 11:42 am

A girl receives toys at a refugee shelter run by German charity organisation Arbeiter Samariter Bund ASB in Berlin, Germany. The Hague: A...

Tech titans pledge $1 bn for artificial intelligence research 12 Dec 2015 - 11:57 am

Elon Musk, CEO of US automotive and energy storage company Tesla, presents his outlook on climate change at the Paris-Sorbonne University in Paris...

Maldives: To 'sunny side of life' with sea, beaches, palms 10 Dec 2015 - 02:19 pm

With abundant sea life, pleasant temperatures and sandy beaches, Maldives is renowned as a tropical paradise By Rahul Dass Kani (Maldives): The Maldives...

Toyota starts sales of 4th generation Prius hybrid 10 Dec 2015 - 01:45 pm

Toyota Motor Corp Executive Vice President Mitsuhisa Kato with a Toyota new Prius at the automaker's showroom in Tokyo. By Yuri Kageyama TOKYO:...

Fashion mogul Berge sells off library in sequel to art 'sale of the century' 10 Dec 2015 - 01:21 pm

French businessman Pierre Berge poses in this undated photo. AFP Paris: Six years after selling off his art collection in a record-breaking "sale...

Smartphones would be outdated in five years 10 Dec 2015 - 11:58 am

Melbourne: Smartphones will become obsolete within five years and would be replaced with artificial intelligence, according to a consumer survey by the Ericsson...

Programmers create unlikely IT boom in Belarus 09 Dec 2015 - 09:16 am

Minsk: Despite its state-controlled economy, Belarus has become an unexpected top performer in information technology, with its programmers developing such worldwide hits as...

E-cigarettes contain dangerous 'popcorn lung' chemicals 09 Dec 2015 - 09:04 am

Washington: Three in four e-cigarettes were found to use a flavored liquid that has been linked to severe respiratory disease, US researchers said...

South Korea unveils ambitious green car push 08 Dec 2015 - 11:12 am

File photo of Hyundai cars in a shipping yard. Seoul plans to increase the production of green vehicles in the domestic market. Reuters ...

Audi showcases RS 7 piloted driving concept on a racetrack 07 Dec 2015 - 03:37 pm

Mohammed Saadon Al-Kuwari with the Audi RS 7 Piloted driving concept. Castellolí/Ingolstadt: The Audi RS 7 piloted driving concept has once again driven...

NASA releases 'best close-ups' of Pluto 05 Dec 2015 - 03:35 pm

A undated handout image made available 04 December 2015 by NASA, a highest-resolution image from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, showing great blocks of...

UK wartime leader Winston Churchill refused to pay his tailor's bills 05 Dec 2015 - 01:03 pm

Henry Poole's ledger account of Winston Churchill LONDON: Refusal to pay the bills of one's tailor was famously almost a point of honour...

Charles Dickens Museum opens exhibition 05 Dec 2015 - 09:23 am

The Charles Dickens Museum London, Dec 5: The Charles Dickens Museum, the famous English author’s former Bloomsbury home, this December opened a new...