
Cannes: Cars talk, a man is married to a monkey and Kylie Minogue contemplates suicide in 'Holy Motors', easily the oddest movie in competition at the Cannes film festival screened so far this year. Directed by French film maker Leos Carax, the story follows Mr. Oscar, a man who spends each day living 10 different lives, each mapped out for him in a dossier left in the back seat of...

01:10 PM, May 24, 2012

Blackburn: Blackburn joined Wolverhampton Wanderers in being relegated from the English Premier League after losing 1-0 at home to Wigan who ensured their survival with sixth win from their past eight matches on Monday. Blackburn, the 1995 champion, needed to win to have any chance of staying up, but Wigan defender Antolin Alcaraz scored with an 87th-minute header from a corner that sealed both teams' fate. The hosts earlier had...

07:19 AM, May 08, 2012

Cast: Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor Director: Steven Soderbergh Gina Carano, the 29-year-old star of Steven Soderbergh's Haywire is not someone you want to get into an argument with. This mixed martial-arts fighter who punches, kicks, slams, smashes, and whacks her rivals into pulp, was cast by the filmmaker when he reportedly watched her in the ring on sports television. In her first movie outing, Carano plays Mallory Kane, a highly...

10:39 PM, Jan 27, 2012

New Delhi: After a tiger went missing in Sariska national park, there has been more trouble brewing as three more species have not been sighted in the park in the last few years causing wildlife scientists to ring the alarm bells. The Chinkara, the Caracal and the Chousingha, three species that are elusive, and were once found in small numbers in 800 sq km of forests, have not been sighted...

06:10 PM, Sep 20, 2011

London: Women never change. They spend more than 100,000 pounds (Rs 7.2 million) on make-up during their lifetime, a new study has found. That's a shade over 2,000 pounds for every year of adulthood, or nearly 40 pounds in an average week. And, 57 per cent say they would ditch their partner rather than go without make-up, according to the study in Britain. Two thirds of the 2,200 women surveyed...

11:59 AM, Aug 01, 2011

London: Books on the lives and times of Chinese leader Mao Zedong, German-Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck and Italian artist and renegade Caravaggio are in the running for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Also on the six-strong shortlist for the annual award are works about American loyalists who left the country after the British evacuation of 1783, the English civil war and the fact that things may actually be...

11:37 AM, Jun 15, 2011

London: A caravan equipped with a luxury Italian kitchen, top-of-the range flat screen television and iPhone controlled heating system has been sold for a whopping 550,000 pounds. The luxury three-bed roomed static holiday home has become the most expensive caravan in the country after being sold to a millionaire couple last month, Daily Mail reported Thursday. Nestled on the seafront in Abersoch, North Wales, the chalet has spectacular views over...

02:13 PM, Jan 15, 2011

This is the second Grand Slam mixed doubles title that Paes and Black won. ...

12:34 PM, Jan 31, 2010

A triumph on Sunday will take Paes' Grand Slam tally to 11. ...

07:42 PM, Jan 30, 2010

Leander Paes earned a chance to equal the record for most Grand Slam title wins by an Indian. ...

04:30 PM, Jan 29, 2010

The 87-year-old has been traveling all over the country in his mobile home. ...

09:03 PM, Jan 21, 2010

The diamond the size of a chicken's egg, found in South Africa. ...

06:48 PM, Sep 30, 2009