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An auction officer presents the painting Judith Cutting Off the Head of Holofernes to the media in Paris. — AFP

Caravaggio in French attic may be real

A painting discovered in the attic of a house in France is an “authentic” painting by the Italian...

13 April 2016 3:59 AM IST

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Found! New link between Alzheimer’s and diabetes

Alzheimer’s impairs insulin signalling in the portion of the brain responsible for regulating metabolism, making a...

12 April 2016 6:46 AM IST

Prince William and Kate Middleton play cricket, meet slum children

Former cricketers Dilip Vengsarkar and Sachin Tendulkar react as the Duchess of Cambridge plays cricket with children at...

11 April 2016 8:23 AM IST

US photographer Lynsey Addario poses for a photograph in Paris. (Photo: AFP)

War photographer at centre of new Spielberg film

Her parents were hairdressers in a small town in Connecticut, so it wasn’t exactly written in the stars that...

11 April 2016 6:10 AM IST

SpaceX rocket makes historic ocean landing

Space X’s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off with an unmanned Dragon cargo craft from the launch platform in Cape...

10 April 2016 1:14 AM IST

Zari, new female puppet, joins Afghan Sesame Street

Afghan puppeteer Mansoora Shirzad (right) records a segment with Sesame Street’s new character, a six-year-old...

10 April 2016 1:11 AM IST

Earth’s internal heat driving Greenland’s ice melt

Greenland sits over an area of abnormally hot mantle material that drives a widespread melting beneath the ice sheet and...

9 April 2016 6:32 AM IST

‘Modern humans lack Neanderthal Y chromosome’

The Neanderthal Y chromosome genes may have disappeared from the human genome long ago, a new study has found.

9 April 2016 6:28 AM IST

Akshay Kumar delayed at Heathrow airport

Actor Akshay Kumar was made to wait at Heathrow Airport as UK immigration officials checked the details of his Canadian...

8 April 2016 7:35 AM IST

Padma Lakshmi calls Donald Trump a ‘racist buffoon’

Padma Lakshmi calls Donald Trump a ‘racist buffoon’

Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi says she would never vote for Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump from being...

8 April 2016 6:17 AM IST

Hogwarts goes to Hollywood

Hogwarts goes to Hollywood

Fifteen years after Harry Potter’s first big screen adventure, Universal is enchanting a new generation of Muggles...

8 April 2016 6:07 AM IST

First woman tailor opens Savile Row shop

British master tailor Kathryn Sargent poses at the launch of her shop on Savile Row in central London on Wednesday....

8 April 2016 6:05 AM IST