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In 2012 the Mayan calendar ends, in what some say is their prediction of the end of the world. The big question is: what exactly does this mean? In other words, what did the Mayans really intend by ending their...

A friend forwarded me a email on these marzipan babies. “Thought you’d be as fascinated with these as I was. These are made with marzipan (almond paste and egg white)……. really unbelievable! While some of the faces may look “crafted”...

In this photo Seventeen school children are crammed into one of India's notoriously unstable three-wheeler taxis as they make their way to school in the city of Bhopal, India. United Nations officials urged cash-strapped governments not to cut back spending...

Twenty years and five days after his first Test appearance, Sachin Tendulkar made his 43rd century yesterday. It was less dazzling than most of the previous 42 but there was a sense of inevitability that he would mark his two...

A suspected US missile strike has killed at least eight militants in north-western Pakistan, officials said, the second attack this week in an area believed to hold many insurgents who fled from an army offensive elsewhere in the Afghan border...

The well-known legendary French actress of yest-er years,Brigette Bardot has implored to the president of Nepal to stop the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of buffaloes,goats and birds to a Hindu goddess of power,Gadhimai, next week. According to AFP,a French...

ISLAMABAD : Cold wave conditions intensified in the Kashmir valley and Ladakh region with minimum temperature dipping to all time low during this winter in Indian occupied Kashmir. According to Kashmir Media Service, occupied Srinagar, recorded coldest night after the...

Security forces have claimed to have killed eight extremists and arretsed 9 other suspected people from Bara, sub-division of Khyber Agency, sources told. Security forces have also carried aerial strikes from gunship helicopters on the suspected hideouts of militants in...