Los Angeles: Even robots like to have fun. NASA's rover on Mars showed off its playful side by snapping a picture of its own shadow. It's the latest self-portrait since the rover, named Opportunity, landed on the red planet in 2004.The photo was taken in March and NASA released it this week. The solar-powered, six-wheel rover was at an outcrop on the rim of a massive crater. The late afternoon...
11:54 AM, May 25, 2012
Munich: Ivica Olic scored twice to send Bayern Munich comfortably through to the Champions League semi-finals for the second time in three years with a 2-0 win over Marseille on Tuesday. Bayern had a 2-0 lead from the first leg and Olic all but secured the German side's progression when he struck in the 13th minute, after former Marseille player Franck Ribery set the Croatian up for an easy tap-in....
03:25 AM, Apr 04, 2012
Los Angeles: 'Two and A Half Men' star Ashton Kutcher has been tapped to star as the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in a biopic. The 34-year-old actor will play the lead in the independent movie, to be directed by Joshua Michael Stern, titled 'Jobs', reported Ace Showbiz. Being scheduled to begin filming in May, 'Jobs' centers on the titular figure's life from when he was a wayward hippie from...
03:31 PM, Apr 02, 2012
Los Angeles: Ultra competitive movie studios rarely want to sit atop this box office list. When the Walt Disney said on Monday that it expected its sci-fi movie 'John Carter' to lose about $200 million, it very likely shot the intergalactic box office bomb to the top of Hollywood's biggest loser chart. If so - and box office math is always a little tricky in Tinseltown - the megaflop would...
01:54 PM, Mar 21, 2012
Nagpur: Former Army Chief General VP Malik has observed that India must step up the vigil along the Chinese border in Arunachal Pradesh as its eastern neighbour might try to "forcefully occupy" Indian territories. "India should remain vigilant from evil designs of China which may forcibly occupy some of the territories in north west and in Arunachal Pradesh," he said. Malik was speaking at a function here last night. "India...
03:30 PM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: Red planet Mars will be brightest and closest "it can get" to earth tomorrow, giving sky gazers an opportunity to see it with naked eyes. "On March 3, Mars was at opposition to sun because of which it would be brightest and closest it can get to earth on March 5," General Secretary of Planetary Society of India N Raghunandan said. In positional astronomy, opposition defines that position...
08:53 AM, Mar 04, 2012
Marseille, France: Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina beat top-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France 6-4, 6-7 (9), 6-3 in an Open 13 semi-final on Saturday. Del Potro will next face 2010 champion Michael Llodra of France, who upset third-seeded Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia 6-4, 7-6 (10). Tsonga outslugged Del Potro with 26 aces to 15 but made too many unforced errors against the 2009 US Open champion, who has reached...
11:37 PM, Feb 25, 2012
Marseille: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Juan Martin del Potro both earned the 200th win of their careers on Friday to set up a semifinal between the two at the Open 13. The top-seeded Tsonga beat Edouard Roger-Vasselin 6-4, 7-5 in the quarterfinals, while Del Potro edged Richard Gasquet 7-5, 7-6 (5). Tsonga served 14 aces and saved 10 break points in an all-French match. Tsonga dropped serve in the opening game...
12:13 AM, Feb 25, 2012
Marseille: French qualifier Albano Olivetti, ranked 388th and playing in the main draw of an ATP event for the first time, stunned Mardy Fish 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in the second round of the Open 13 on Thursday. The second-seeded American rallied from a 3-1 deficit in the second set to level the match. But Olivetti jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the decider and kept his composure to earn...
04:12 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Marseille: Nikolay Davydenko hit nine aces and did not face a single break point as he beat Andreas Beck of Germany 6-1, 7-5 Tuesday to reach the second round of the Open 13. Davydenko, a semifinalist at the ABN Amro World Tennis final in Rotterdam last week, broke Beck's serve three times in the match. The Russian next faces fourth-seeded Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina for a place in...
01:45 PM, Feb 22, 2012
War Horse is a 2011 war epic motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. It is based on both War Horse, a children's novel set before and during World War I, by British author Michael Morpurgo, first published in the United Kingdom in 1982, and the 2007 stage adaptation of the same name. ...
07:57 PM, Feb 03, 2012
Retired Air Marshal PS Ahluwalia said Army Chief General VK Singh should settle the matter amicably. ...
12:03 PM, Feb 03, 2012
New Delhi: Former IAF Chief Air Chief Marshal Anil Yashwant Tipnis on Wednesday said that the image of Army Chief General VK Singh has been tarnished in the controversy over his age but added that it would not affect the morale of the armed forces. Rajdeep Sardesai: Joining us now is a very special guest - former Air Force chief during the Kargil operations - Air Chief Marshal Anil Yashwant...
11:29 PM, Jan 18, 2012
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