
Pole dancers want the talent to be included in the Olympics. ...

10:21 AM, May 28, 2012

Manama: Two-time world champion Sebastian Vettel took pole position for the first time this season on Saturday, edging out McLaren's Lewis Hamilton at the Bahrain Grand Prix, where security remained tight amid expectations of fresh anti-government protests. Vettel, whose best finish this year was second place at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, clocked 1 minute, 32.422 seconds in his Red Bull. The German's time was 0.98 seconds quicker than championship...

06:11 PM, Apr 21, 2012

Shanghai: Sahara Force India drivers Paul di Resta and Nico Hulkenberg will start in the eighth row on the grid in Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix after finishing 15th and 16th in the qualifying in Shanghai on Saturday. Di Resta clocked 1:36.317 to finish 15th in the second qualifying session (Q2), a place ahead of his teammate Hulkenberg (1:36.745). Di Resta rued that a gain of fraction of a second would...

04:49 PM, Apr 14, 2012

Shanghai: Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg claimed the first Formula One pole position of his career on Saturday, topping qualifying for the Chinese Grand Prix. The German swept to the top slot by a massive margin, with a best lap of one minute 35.121 seconds compared to Lewis Hamilton's 1:35.626. McLaren's Hamilton qualified second, but will have to start Sunday's race from seventh due to a five-place grid penalty for changing...

12:55 PM, Apr 14, 2012

New Delhi: In a tragic incident, an 8-year-old boy travelling by his school bus lost his life on Thursday when his head hit a hoarding which was dangling from an electric pole in Central Mumbai. Viraj had moved his head out to wave at his friends. He was taken to the hospital where he was declared brought dead. It is mandatory for all school buses plying in Maharashtra to have...

03:07 PM, Nov 24, 2011

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The tallest flag mast in the country to hoistthe mammoth national flagto be installed at the entrance ofthe Kanakakkunnu Palace here has been brought to the city. The 65-metre long stainless steel flagpole will carry a national flag 72 feet long and 48 feet wide atop. The spokesman of the Flag Foundation of India spokesman K V Singh had stated in a news conference few months ago that the...

08:46 AM, Nov 14, 2011

London: Actress Eva Longoria is taking pole dance lessons for her role in the eighth season of "Desperate Housewives". The actress, who plays Gabrielle Solis, has been practicising at the S Factor gym in Los Angeles. The 36-year-old says she is not a stranger to stripper poles as her former "Baywatch" star friend Carmen Electra had gifted her one in 2009. "Carmen Electra has these stripper poles that she sells....

06:22 PM, Jul 21, 2011

Moscow: At least 44 people were killed when a passenger plane broke up and caught fire on coming into land in heavy fog in north-western Russia, an Emergency Ministry spokeswoman said on Tuesday. The Tupolev-134 plane, carrying 43 passengers and nine crew, crashed near a road about 1 km from the runway at the Besovets airport outside the northern city of Petrozavodsk at about 1940 GMT on Monday. "The preliminary...

07:37 AM, Jun 21, 2011

Paris: Greying, inkstained notebook fragments showing Napoleon Bonaparte's efforts two centuries ago to grasp the English language go on auction in Paris at the weekend, alongside some 350 other Napoleonic artefacts. Defeated by the British at Waterloo and held on the remote Atlantic island of Saint Helena until his death in 1821, the French emperor used his time in captivity to learn English -- although the scraps show the military...

10:37 AM, Jun 06, 2011
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May 27, 2011 The day was full of much action. It was snowing in the morning as we headed out with the scientists from ...

11:33 AM, May 28, 2011
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The first signs that this journey is going to be full of a lot of adventure? We miss our connections from the quaint airport of ...

03:07 PM, May 27, 2011

Moscow: A love letter by Napoleon Bonaparte, addressed to his first wife Josephine de Beauharnais in 1796, will go under the hammer Saturday in Moscow. In his letter, the future French emperor and military genius, then 26, confesses to Josephine, then 32, that glory is a value to him only because it flatters her, and complains that her feelings toward him are nothing but a whim. The love letter of...

10:35 AM, Feb 26, 2011

Dallas: Rare, lavishly-illustrated manuscripts from the Sistine Chapel that were rescued from Napoleon's army, only to fall under the radar screen of art history for two centuries, on Sunday.go on display. The exhibit at Southern Methodist University's Meadows Museum, which will run until April 23, is the only chance for the US public to see the stunning, hand-made codices or manuscripts. "The Lost Manuscripts from the Sistine Chapel: An Epic...

12:32 PM, Jan 23, 2011

New Delhi: The Indian Tricolour now flies high over the South Pole. Indian scientists have possibly created a world record for the shortest time taken to get to the South Pole. The achieved the feat in just eight days travelling 4000 kilometers non-stop. "Most difficult part was getting food. The nozzle of the stove gave way because of the cold. The rubber pipe gave way. We were at a loss ...

09:23 AM, Jan 12, 2011