Alligator surfaces beneath a car in New York |
- Alligator surfaces beneath a car in New York
- Iran begins fuelling first nuclear reactor
- Australia faces hung parliament, coalition talks begin
- Rare World War II Helldiver plane recovered
- Gunmen take guests hostage at Rio luxury hotel
- Iran's 'ambassador of death' bomber is ready
- Flooding in China forces 94,000 people to flee
- 100 brides raise money for sick 5-year-old
- Gym mixes vodka with fitness
- Pentagon could be behind rape charges: Wikileaks founder
- The Shahrukhis of Vienna: Full transcript
- Hunt on for $50 million van Gogh stolen from Egypt
- UK in dilemma over cap on Indian professionals
- What is it about 20-somethings?
- Hindu deities conjure magic in downtown New York
- The secret behind Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile 'revealed'
- Australian PM Gillard hopes to keep her job, approaches independents
- Muslim Miss USA against Ground Zero mosque
- Australian election: Independents hold the key
| Alligator surfaces beneath a car in New York Posted: Tales of reptiles in the sewers have long been part of New York City lore, though they have been largely discounted as urban legend. But here is the true story of a two-foot-long creature that Joyce Hackett came across in Queens on Sunday afternoon.
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| Iran begins fuelling first nuclear reactor Posted: Iranian and Russian engineers began loading fuel Saturday into Iran's first nuclear power plant, which Moscow has promised to safeguard to prevent material at the site from being used in any potential weapons production.
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| Australia faces hung parliament, coalition talks begin Posted: The leaders of Australia's two major political parties began negotiating power deals with independent lawmakers on Sunday after the nation's closest election in decades failed to deliver a clear mandate to govern.
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| Rare World War II Helldiver plane recovered Posted: A rare World War II dive bomber was lifted 90 feet (27.4 metres) from the bottom of a San Diego, California, reservoir on Friday and hoisted to dry land for the first time in 65 years.
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| Gunmen take guests hostage at Rio luxury hotel Posted: Gunmen engaged in a shootout with police, took 30 people hostage at a luxury hotel in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday.
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| Iran's 'ambassador of death' bomber is ready Posted: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday inaugurated the country's first domestically built unmanned bomber aircraft, calling it an "ambassador of death" to Iran's enemies.
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| Flooding in China forces 94,000 people to flee Posted: Flooding killed four people and forced the evacuation of 94,000 in the north China port city of Dandong after heavy rains caused the Yalu river to breach its banks, state media said on Sunday.
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| 100 brides raise money for sick 5-year-old Posted: Over 100 women all dressed in bridal dresses on Sunday gathered in the Polish city of Poznan to help raise money for a sick five-year old boy, who suffers from epilepsy and autism, Polish broadcaster TVN reported.
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| Posted: "Sweat and alcohol are both great social lubricants," said David Barton, founder of the David Barton Gym. So in a move that might seem silly or inevitable, depending on your point of view, he has combined them. The gym chain became a watering hole at its locations in Chicago, Miami and New York when it started hosting cocktail hours after its intense boot camp training classes.
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| Pentagon could be behind rape charges: Wikileaks founder Posted: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange believes that the Pentagon could be behind the false rape charges that were filed against him on Friday by Swedish prosecutors and then withdrawn after a few hours.
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| The Shahrukhis of Vienna: Full transcript Posted: Meet Shahrukhis, the German speaking fans of King Khan. They talk about Shahrukh, collect his memorabilia, watch his films together, dance to his film songs and plan their next visit to meet Shahrukh. Many of them have even visited India for his birthday.
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| Hunt on for $50 million van Gogh stolen from Egypt Posted: Egypt's top prosecutor says security lapses are to blame for the theft of a Vincent van Gogh painting from a Cairo museum. Prosecutor general Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud says none of the alarms and only seven out of 43 surveillance cameras at the Mahmoud Khalil Museum were functioning Saturday when the painting was stolen.
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| UK in dilemma over cap on Indian professionals Posted: Prime Minister David Cameron's government is caught in a dilemma over imposing an immigration cap on professionals from India and other non-European Union countries with several British companies asking ministers to reconsider the issue. Imposing the cap was one of the major promises of the coalition government.
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| What is it about 20-somethings? Posted: This question pops up everywhere, underlying concerns about "failure to launch" and "boomerang kids." Two new sitcoms feature grown children moving back in with their parents — "$#*! My Dad Says," starring William Shatner as a divorced curmudgeon whose 20-something son can't make it on his own as a blogger, and "Big Lake," in which a financial whiz kid loses his Wall Street job and moves back home to rural Pennsylvania. A cover of The New Yorker last spring picked up on the zeitgeist: a young man hangs up his new Ph.D. in his boyhood bedroom, the cardboard box at his feet signaling his plans to move back home now that he's officially overqualified for a job. In the doorway stand his parents, their expressions a mix of resignation, worry, annoyance and perplexity: how exactly did this happen?
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| Hindu deities conjure magic in downtown New York Posted: As surprising New York juxtapositions go, none surpass those provided each August by the Erasing Borders festival of Indian dance in its contributions to the Downtown Dance Festival. Here is a downtown plaza surrounded by skyscrapers, with people coming and going at lunchtime and a soundtrack that includes the harbor and city traffic; and here in the open air are dancers in full Indian costume performing traditional forms that derive from the opposite side of the world.
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| The secret behind Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile 'revealed' Posted: For nearly 500 years, people have been gazing at Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of Mona Lisa with a sense of bafflement - first she is smiling; then the smile fades; a moment later it returns only to disappear again.
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| Australian PM Gillard hopes to keep her job, approaches independents Posted: With none of the major parties securing simple majority in the cliffhanger Australian general election, Prime Minister Julia Gillard today sought to assure countrymen that she would deliver "stable and effective" government, amid hectic efforts to cobble up a coalition.
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| Muslim Miss USA against Ground Zero mosque Posted: Rima Fakih, the first Muslim to win the Miss USA title, has said that though she supports the constitutional rights on the freedom of religion she doesn't favour building a mosque near Ground Zero.
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| Australian election: Independents hold the key Posted: Australian voters have dealt a crippling blow to the ruling Labour Party in two key provinces and left the country with a prospect of a hung Parliament, forcing its first woman Prime Minister Julia Gillard and her rival Tony Abbott to woo independents for government formation.
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