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Chinese giant to buy major stake in Hollywood studio

Chinese powerhouse Dalian Wanda is reportedly in talks to buy a controlling stake in US film studio Legendary, providing...

6 Jan 2016 3:15 AM IST

Craig Strickland

Country singer Craig Strickland found dead

Country singer Craig Strickland was found dead near an Oklahoma lake one week after he and his friend went missing.

6 Jan 2016 3:12 AM IST

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

University of Texas to digitise pages from Marquez archive

The University of Texas at Austin will digitise more than 24,000 pages from the archive of Colombian novelist and Nobel...

6 Jan 2016 3:09 AM IST

The latest cover of the Charlie Hebdo magazine

Charlie Hebdo ‘feels alone’ in its struggle

Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical weekly propelled to global notoriety when its cartoonists were shot dead by jihadist...

5 Jan 2016 6:49 AM IST

Margarita Louis-Dreyfus

53-year-old Swiss billionaire Louis-Dreyfus to have twins

Swiss multi-billionaire businesswoman Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, chair of French conglomerate Louis Dreyfus Commodities...

5 Jan 2016 6:47 AM IST

4 new elements added to periodic table

The periodic table now has its seventh row completed with the introduction of four new chemical elements.

5 Jan 2016 6:45 AM IST

George RR Martin’s new novel to release post-GoT Season 6

George RR Martin’s new novel to release post-GoT Season 6

Game of Thrones fans were let down on Saturday, when author George R.R. Martin admitted he had missed a December 31...

4 Jan 2016 12:15 AM IST

Maribel Valencia holds her newborn twins at the San Diego Kaiser Permanente Zion Medical Center- AP

California twins born minutes apart but in different years

Twin infants born just as New Year’s Champagne corks were popping share the same parents, but different birth...

4 Jan 2016 12:15 AM IST

Get set to witness ‘sky opera’ today

Get set to witness ‘sky opera’ today

Three celestial events are set to take place on Monday. The Earth will be closet to the Sun, there will be a meteor...

4 Jan 2016 12:07 AM IST

UP amputee mountaineer scales Argentine peak

Arunima Sinha, an amputee mountaineer from Uttar Pradesh who had set a record by climbing the Mount Everest, has set...

3 Jan 2016 5:55 AM IST

Anne Frank’s diary goes online despite dispute

A French academic and an MP published online on Friday the famous diary of Anne Frank, despite a dispute with rights...

3 Jan 2016 5:51 AM IST

Bill Cosby’s wife ordered to give deposition

Bill Cosby’s wife ordered to give deposition

In the same week that comedian Bill Cosby was arrested on sexual assault charges, his wife, Camille Cosby, learned she...

3 Jan 2016 5:48 AM IST