Tokyo (CNN) — A powerful earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan on Friday evening, rattling buildings in Tokyo and setting off a small tsunami. It also jarred nerves in a nation still recovering from the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 that killed thousands of people and triggered the world’s worst nuclear […]
President Barack Obama handily defeated Gov. Mitt Romney and won himself a second term Tuesday after a bitter and historically expensive race that was primarily fought in just a handful of battleground states. Networks project that Obama beat Romney after nabbing the crucial state of Ohio. […]
Sharmila Tagore was on Thursday awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts by the Edinburgh Napier University for her outstanding contribution to Indian cinema. The university’s Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Dame Joan Stringer, hailed her as an “excellent ambassador’ for Indian culture.” […]
Veteran bollywood filmmaker Yash Chopra died at Mumbai’s Lilavati Hospital on Sunday, a hospital spokesperson said. He was 80. Chopra was admitted to Lilavati hospital in suburban Bandra on October 13 after being diagnosed with dengue. Chopra had announced his retirement from film direction last month. […]
His alliance with the murderous Khmer Rouge and shifting allegiances on the global stage left a troubled legacy for Cambodia Cambodia’s Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who died of heart failure on Monday in Beijing at the age of 89, acted for 71 of those years as though he were centre stage of a world drama. […]
Police has beefed up security in and around the historic Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya city of Bihar following threats of a possible militant attack. Additional armed security teams were deployed at the temple entrance and were seen frisking devotees entering the temple premises. […]
Former Under Secretary General of the United Nations/Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict Radhika Coomaraswamy was chosen for the Special Jury Prize 2012 by the Fondation Chirac (Chirac Foundation), states a press release from the Sri Lankan Embassy in Paris. […]
This image provided by NASA shows shows a Martian rock outcrop near the landing site of the rover Curiosity thought to be the site of an ancient streambed. (AP Photo) CAPE CANAVERAL: NASA’s Mars rover, Curiosity, dispatched to learn if the most Earth-like planet in the solar system was suitable for microbial life, has found […]