A mountaineer climbs up Piz Beverin mountain (2,998 metres) near Mathon, above Val Schons in canton Grisons, Switzerland, yesterday.
A mountaineer climbs up Piz Beverin mountain (2,998 metres) near Mathon, above Val Schons in canton Grisons, Switzerland, yesterday.
NEW YORK: It’s been dubbed the legroom wars. For the third time in nine days, a US commercial jet has been forced to...
CHICAGO: Could action-packed TV fare make you fat? That’s the implication of a new study that found people snacked more watching fast-paced television...
SHIMLA: A monkey sparked a dash for cash in a northern Indian town when he showered banknotes from a rooftop, witnesses said yesterday....
PARIS: Driven by the quest for an abundant, non-polluting alternative to fossil fuel, scientists said yesterday they had developed a method to produce...
Director Saverio Costanzo gestures as he attends the red carpet for the movie “Hungry Hearts” at the 71st Venice Film Festival in Venice,...
A German girl feeds a pair of budgerigar birds inside a zoo in Kassel, Germany, yesterday. Zoo supporters say that keeping animals in...
The sun sets over the Manhattan skyline in New York City yesterday.
ZAGREB: Raucous roosters are driving tourists from a quiet Croatian holiday spot with their incessant cock-a-doodle-doos, a local newspaper reported yesterday. The annoying...
LONDON: A football fan was fined £305 ($506) yesterday after ‘bending it like Beckham’ when he ran onto the pitch and cheekily took...
New York: This may sound and read unbelievable but there is an elderly man whose brain has no neural fibre connection between his...
Some 300 ‘kiters’ try to break the Guinness World Record for kite-surfing along a nautical mile in Tarifa, in the southern Spanish province...
A monumental installation of interconnected bicycle frames by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei installed in the courtyard of Palazzo Franchetti in Venice.
BARCELONA: Swiss engineers, famous for making the world’s finest watches, are turning their hands to cardiology with a prototype battery-less pacemaker based on...
WASHINGTON: To recline or not to recline? Aeroplane “legroom wars” are prompting growing rage in the United States, with two recent seat battles...
PARIS: Scientists yesterday said that they had identified six genetic variants linked to glaucoma, a discovery that should help earlier diagnosis and better...
VENICE: The race for the Golden Lion in Venice took a dark turn yesterday with stories of war and genocide including an ambitious...
The art installation Pulse & Bloom is seen at night during the Burning Man 2014 “Caravansary” arts and music festival in the Black...
