British author Ruth Rendell, who died on Saturday aged 85, followed the late Agatha Christie and P.D. James as a grande dame of the crime thriller.
Feeling cynical and hostile toward others may double the risk of having a stroke in middle-aged and older adults. A study suggests that if you have high hostility score -- measured by assessing a person's cynical expectations of other people's motives -- you are more likely to suffer a stroke.
A Japanese zoo has taken the catwalk to a wild new level, using some of its fiercest inhabitants to rip and claw jeans to a fashionably distressed look. The zoo officials wrapped several pieces of denim around tyres and other toys and threw them into the enclosures. The pieces were later patched together to create the finished product.
A mini-submarine searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 recommenced its operations on Thursday after technical problems, as it enters its final week of scouring the Indian Ocean seabed for signs of the aircraft.
Ireland sent debutants United Arab Emirates crashing out of the World Twenty20 on Wednesday, winning the Group B match in Sylhet by the Duckwoth Lewis method.
The celibate Dalai Lama has thrown his considerable moral weight behind gay marriage, condemning homophobia and saying sex was fine as long as it was consensual.
Asian football authorities claimed success on Tuesday after the sport's governing body allowed women to wear headscarves for competitive matches, saying the move will benefit women's football in Muslim-majority west Asia.
The International Olympic Committee Tuesday reinstated India, allowing its athletes to compete under their own flag in Sochi, officials from both sides said."The ban has been lifted. There was an (IOC) executive committee meeting early this morning," Rajeev Mehta, the Indian Olympic Association secretary general, told AFP.
Britain on Tuesday revealed that the advice offered to the Indira Gandhi government before Operation Bluestar in 1984 was "fundamentally different" from what was carried out under Operation Bluestar, confirming Indian commanders' view that the operation was carried out without British involvement. Reactions on Twitter |India had a 'sledgehammer to crack a nut' approach in '84? There were foreign nationals in Golden Temple: Indira | Should the British government apologize for its role in Operation Bluestar?
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire set North America's weekend box office alight, earning $158.1 million in one of the biggest movie debuts ever.
For the 17th year, US-based Travel+Leisure Magazine published the results of the 50 World's best hotels according to a readers' survey.
The finalists for this year's China Travel & Meetings Industry Awards were announced by Leisure & Business Travel of China, indicating some of the favorite luxury travel destinations for Chinese tourists.
London's Heathrow Airport coped with its busiest day so far for Olympic arrivals on Tuesday -- with American sprint legend Carl Lewis praising the under-pressure hub after jetting in.
The journeys take place in northern Italy, setting off from Brescia through the Franciacorta, around Lake Iseo, before climbing into Val Camonica and into Edolo.
The results of the Caravaning design awards 2012-2013, based in Germany and awarded in association with red dot design, were announced early this week.
