London: Viewers of BBC Scotland were on Thursday pleasantly surprised when Prince Charles appeared on their screens to present the weather, and cracked some jokes in the process. He delivered the lunchtime weather bulletin when he and the Duchess of Cornwall visited the BBC's Glasgow office. BBC Scotland is currently celebrating 60 years of operation. Prince Charles appeared initially to fiddle around the 'clicker' which is used to change the...
10:08 PM, May 10, 2012
Washington: Cellphone companies and the US government are trying to make it as difficult to use a stolen cellphone as it is to sell a stolen car. US Senator Charles Schumer said in a statement late Monday that major cellphone carriers and the US Federal Communications Commission have agreed to set up a database of identification numbers that are unique to each phone. Using the list, cellular carriers will be...
09:39 AM, Apr 11, 2012
Charleston: Serena Williams even impressed herself with her powerful showing at the Family Circle Cup on Saturday. Williams needed less than an hour to dispatch second-seeded Samantha Stosur 6-1, 6-1 and advance to the clay-court final. "You know, I think it was just one of those days that I could have done anything against anybody," Williams said. On Sunday, Williams will face Lucie Safarova, a 6-0, 6-0 winner over Polona...
06:16 PM, Apr 08, 2012
Charleston: Reigning US Open champion Samantha Stosur put the latest match-up in the Williams sisters' sibling rivalry on hold by rallying past Venus Williams at the Family Circle Cup. The second-seeded Stosur won five of the last six games for a 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 victory in the quarter-finals on a chilly, windy Friday at the season's first clay-court event. Stosur now has a chance at knocking out both Williams sisters...
11:15 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Charleston, South Carolina: Venus Williams kept up with sister Serena by winning a third-round match at the Family Circle Cup, moving one step closer to an all-Williams semi-final. Venus and Serena both reached the quarter-finals of the Family Circle Cup on Thursday with straight-set victories. Venus defeated Anastasia Rodionova 7-5, 6-2 on center court shortly after Serena ousted Marina Erakovic, 6-2, 6-2. Should the sisters win on Friday, it would...
01:09 PM, Apr 06, 2012
Charleston, South Carolina: Third-seeded Marion Bartoli hung on for a 6-2, 6-7 (3), 6-4 victory over Vera Dushevina at the Family Circle Cup on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Venus Williams played a brand of tennis that would be hard for anyone to overcome, including little sister Serena, as she progressed at Charleston. Bartoli, the world's fourth-ranked player who reached the semi-finals of the French Open in 2011, only had two days of...
12:56 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Trexlertown: A man who had recently written in The New York Times about his love for his Alzheimer's-stricken wife killed her and himself in what their family called an act of "deep devotion." The bodies of Charles Snelling and his wife, Adrienne, both 81, were found on Friday in their home in Trexlertown in eastern Pennsylvania. "Our father ended our mother's life and then took his own life as well,"...
08:24 AM, Mar 31, 2012
Kolkata: Osama Bin Laden has been resurrected in Kolkata! One of the most controversial characters of world history is now being portrayed on the popular stage theatre of Bengal. The play, christened 'Osama', revolves round the main protagonist Charles the crook, who considers himself an artist and believes that a man can do anything good or evil for his existence and that a human being has the right to trade...
12:28 PM, Mar 18, 2012
London: An archivist at the British Film Institute has stumbled across a 1901 movie just one minute long which turns out to be the earliest surviving film featuring a character from the works of Charles Dickens. Bryony Dixon was researching early films of China when she noticed an entry in a catalogue referring to 'The Death of Poor Joe', which she realized could refer to a character in Dickens' 'Bleak...
12:15 PM, Mar 09, 2012
New Delhi: The aura is long gone and recent performances have been inconsistent, but Indian hockey's former technical adviser Ric Charlesworth, who had a controversial stint with the team, still expects his former wards to qualify for the London Olympics during the qualifiers starting in New Delhi on Saturday. "India still have some very exciting players and can play some fabulous hockey, but perhaps they are not consistent enough and...
10:40 AM, Feb 14, 2012
New Delhi: The first trailer of Sacha Baron Cohen starrer 'The Dictator' is out now. The film has a funny storyline which showcases a dictator who wants to restrict democracy from coming to his country. Larry Charles is the director of the film while Paramount Pictures will distribute it. Also starring Ben Kingsley and Anna Faris, the film is said to based on the novel 'Zabibah and the King'. Have...
03:11 PM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Google doodle commemorating the 200th birth anniversary of the greatest English novelist of the Victorian era features famous characters from Charles Dickens' novels. The British author created unforgettable characters such as Ebenezer Scrooge and David Copperfield. The doodle with a Victorian feel does not link to the usual Google search engine results but since it's about Dickens it instead directs users to the Google Books results page...
09:21 AM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: He gave us Uriah Heep in "David Copperfield", the Artful Dodger in "Oliver Twist", Ebenezer Scrooge in "The Christmas Carol"... characters who live on not just in books but also in the English language itself. As the world celebrates 200 years of Charles Dickens, so does India despite the intense debate on the relevance of Dickensian pedagogy in the 21st century. The pictures he painted of Victorian England...
05:20 PM, Feb 06, 2012
London: British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years. Dr Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway, University of London, said Today that he stumbled upon the glass slides containing the fossils in an old wooden cabinet that had been shoved in a "gloomy corner" of the massive, drafty British Geological...
07:51 AM, Jan 17, 2012
London: Scientists claim that a species of giant tortoise which influenced Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and has been feared extinct for 150 years may still be alive in the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean. A team in the US says that genetic clues suggest pure-bred members of the species have recently interbred with some of their cousins, after it found the genetic footprint of the species Chelonoidis elephantopus...
04:57 PM, Jan 10, 2012
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