Berlin: Paul, the German octopus famous for correctly predicting each of Germany's 2010 World Cup matches, will get his own permanent memorial three months after his death. The memorial corner will be unveiled Thursday at the Sea Life aquarium in Oberhausen in western Germany, the aquarium said Tuesday. Dubbed "Paul's Corner," the centerpiece of the memorial will be the octopus oracle's urn. Paul died aged 2-1/2 in October. He became...
04:03 PM, Jan 19, 2011
New Delhi: In this year's Republic Day celebrations, 23 children will be part of the Parade for their exemplary show of courage. Ranging from 6 to 16 years, the 2010 Bravery Award-winner children describe their stories of bravery. Injured while trying to save a man from an oncoming train, 15 years old Moonis Khan said it was something he had to do. "I was scared initially. Later I thought about...
08:09 PM, Jan 17, 2011
Watch the special show Infosys Prize 2010, looking to inspire home-grown researchers in India. ...
05:48 PM, Jan 16, 2011
New Delhi: Eight men scored a perfect 100 percentile in the second online edition of the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2010 which decides the fate of thousands of students seeking admission to some of India's top business schools this year. The much-awaited CAT results were declared as per schedule on Wednesday following a scare of scores leaked on the Indian Institutes of Management website 10 days ahead of its release...
07:50 AM, Jan 12, 2011
London: High school English teachers are crying into their textbooks over the American Dialect Society's choice for ‘Word of the Year' - 'App'. The abbreviated tech slang for a computer or smart phone application beat out another word that would have had language purists tearing their hair out even more. ‘Nom' - a chat, tweet, and text-friendly syllable that connotes ‘yummy food' - was the runner-up. It derives from the...
05:04 PM, Jan 10, 2011
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As promised, here's the list of the top 10 movies of 2010 with brief reviews. Unfortunately I haven't seen 127 Hours yet, so it doesn't ...
11:45 AM, Jan 08, 2011
New Delhi: A total of 5.58 million foreign tourists visited India in 2010, a 9.3 percent rise over the previous year. In December alone, the tourist arrivals totalled 6.55 lakh, marginally better than the 6.46 lakh of December 2009, the tourism ministry said Thursday. The statement, however, added that the tourist arrivals in December was lower than the previous month mainly because of flight disturbances in Europe and other countries....
06:26 PM, Jan 06, 2011
Rockford: A northern Illinois couple welcomed their new daughter to the world in the last minute of 2010 - and a twin son in the first minute of 2011. Ashley Fansler gave birth to Madisen Carin Lewis at 11:59 pm on New Year's Eve in Machesney Park, 85 miles northwest of Chicago. Aiden Everette Lewis was born a minute later, at 12 a.m. on New Year's Day. The Rockford Register...
10:38 AM, Jan 05, 2011
San Francisco: If you've been wishing you could ditch your clunky computer mouse and control your PC with gestures - the way you can using Microsoft Corp.'s Kinect motion controller for the Xbox 360 gaming console - computer maker Asus expects to have a solution for you this year. Asustek Computer Inc. and PrimeSense Ltd., an Israeli company whose 3-D camera is a core part of Kinect, said Monday that...
07:37 AM, Jan 04, 2011
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YouTube describes it as the world's most ridiculous border ceremony. And that's putting it politely, as anyone who has watched the Wagah flag-lowering ceremony between ...
11:23 AM, Jan 03, 2011
Rajeev Masand points out five lessons from the performances of the movies in 2010. Akshay Kumar isn't funny anymore! The puerile humor in 'Housefull' may have been the last straw. The dismal response to 'Khatta Meetha', 'Action Replayy' and 'Tees Maar Khan' has proved that the Khiladi Kumar needs to reinvent himself… and quick! There's more to Deepika than those long legs! Unlike fellow newbie Sonam Kapoor who was mostly...
10:46 PM, Dec 31, 2010
Rajeev Masand lists five films that people should have watched in 2010. 'Harischandrachi Factory': For its loving portrait of the Father of Indian cinema and the invaluable gift of film he gave us. 'Antardwand': A patchy but hard-hitting account of real India, where men are kidnapped and forced to marry at gunpoint. 'Striker': Despite its flawed screenplay, the film's meticulous detailing transported you into the heart of Malvani in the...
10:38 PM, Dec 31, 2010
It's been a year of some small surprises and more than a few big disappointments. Each year when I'm picking my best and worst films, I jog my memory back to the ones I felt most strongly about. These are personal choices, and you're welcome to disagree with them. Hits 2010: (5) 'Phas Gaye Re Obama': A refreshingly smart comedy about the repercussions of recession on the kidnapping industry in...
10:14 PM, Dec 31, 2010
The year 2010 was a year of scams - 2G, CWG and others. CNN-IBN brings you these and other big stories of 2010. ...
01:33 PM, Dec 31, 2010
London: The astounding predictions of an octopus, the perils of "chexting" and the pain of getting around on planes were the laughing matters of 2010. News that a Sicilian man had stolen sweets and chewing gum so he could spend New Year's Eve in jail to avoid his relatives seemed odd until another Italian man was stabbed by his son after a quarrel over tactics for a soccer videogame. An...
09:57 AM, Dec 31, 2010
Exploring party whereabouts for welcoming 2011. ...
08:31 PM, Dec 30, 2010
