Performers take part in the opening ceremony for the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, yesterday.
Performers take part in the opening ceremony for the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, yesterday.
CAPE CANAVERAL: A commercial cargo ship has ended its month-long space station visit. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station released the Cygnus supply...
GENEVA: A five-and-a-half-hour film from the Philippines, From What Is Before, scooped the coveted Golden Leopard prize at the Locarno film festival in...
LONDON: Daniel Radcliffe says he finds the concept of celebrity and the level of interest in the trivia of actors’ lives “weird.” While...
NEW YORK: Michael Cera released an indie folk album last week — quietly, in a way almost as unassuming as the actor himself....
Three 13-week-old white lion cubs play next to their parents, Yabu and Nikita, at the zoo in La Fleche, western France, yesterday.
The 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO Berlinetta sold for $38.1m. Monterey: A red 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO Berlinetta, which was once involved in a...
A member of a police motorcycle daredevil team smashes through a wall of fluorescent tubes in a stunt show during India’s Independence Day...
TOKYO: Hello Kitty has been sent on her first space mission, as Japan’s global icon of cute celebrates its 40th birthday in extraterrestrial...
MELBOURNE: An Australian hospital apologised after sending out notices to the doctors of more than 200 patients telling them they had died instead...
WASHINGTON: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has become the latest celebrity to be doused by a bucket of ice-cold water — and now he...
LONDON: A pilot for a British budget airline briefly lost control of a flight after his artificial arm came loose during landing, an...
Gardeners work on the design a giant flower carpet at Brussels’ Grand Place yesterday. This year’s theme for the flower carpet is Turkey...
A swarm of KiloBots — 1,000 simple but collaborative robots. WASHINGTON: They look vaguely like miniature hockey pucks skittering along on three pin-like...
A robot carries food to customers in a restaurant in Kunshan, China; (Right) another robot cooks vegetables in the kitchen. KUNSHAN: It’s more...
NEW YORK: Five years after his death, Michael Jackson is back with a new video that breaks new ground by premiering on Twitter....
WASHINGTON: Dolphins often squeal when they get a fish treat, sounding much like happy children. US researchers said on Wednesday they believed these...
Two ruddy shelducks and a moorhen stand on the edge of a pond reflecting on the surface of the water in Stuttgart, Germany,...
