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Fabio Capello quits as England manager

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Fabio Capello has quit as England manager following the Football Association's decision to strip John Terry of the captaincy, the FA announced on Wednesday.

"Fabio's resignation was accepted and he w

Eurofighter not out of contest, says David Cameron

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British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday said in the House of Commons that Eurofighter was not out of contention for the Indian Air Force fighter deal.

“I am very disappointed by what has ha

‘Eurofighter not out of contest’

British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday said in the House of Commons that Eurofighter was not out of contention for the Indian Air Force fighter deal.

Genome of Denisovian decoded

German anthropologists have decoded the entire genome sequence of a Denisovan, representative of the extinct Asian group related to Neanderthals, from a finger bone fossil, a study reveals.

Liz Taylor paintings sold for £14 million

Vincent Van Gogh’s Vue de l’Asile et de la Chapelle de Saint-Remy (1889). 	— AFP

Hollywood actress Elizabeth Taylor’s legendary collections of jewellery, dresses, and memorabilia may have raised over $156.8 million in December, but her art work is breaking records now.

BAe mulls price cut for Eurofighter

British defence firm BAE Systems said on Tuesday it is considering all options, including a price cut, in order to get a chance to win back the Indian contract for 126 fighter jets for the Indian Air

London kicks off Dickens’ 200th b’day bash

A manuscript by Charles Dickens on display in central London. 	— AFP

Britain rang in the bicentennial birth celebrations for novelist Charles Dickens, author of English literature classics like David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol,

‘Hungry’ Brit devours 6000-calorie breakfast in record 26 mins!

A British diner finished off a gigantic 6,000 calories fry-up, which was the size of a baby, in just 26 minutes.

Robert Pinto travelled 125 miles from his home in Rutland in order to win the Kidz Bre

Catholic Priests involved in 4000 sex abuse cases

In a shocking revelation it has been told that 4,000 cases of Catholic priests sexually abusing children have been investigated in ten years.

Cardinal Joseph William Levada divulged at a Vatican conf

Osama's 'right hand man in Europe' released on bail

A British court on Monday ordered the release on bail of a top Islamist radical leader, who was once described as ‘Osama bin Laden's right hand man in Europe’.

Abu Qatada, the arrested radical cleri

Syria has been simmering since 2011, when the Arab Spring wafted over it from the heartland of the Arab world — Egypt.

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee is obviously a worried man as he gets ready to present the Union Budget on March 16. He has admitted to losing sleep over the mounting burden of subsidies.