Does the brain process words and music separately or as one? Well scientists in Germany seem to have found an answer to the hotly debated...

North Korean dictators Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il had placed special agents across Europe for shopping sprees which included buying, luxury carpets, gold-plated guns, small Cessna planes and high-priced foreign cars such as Mercedes-Benz and Lincolns, according to the memoir of former Army Col. Kim...

Rihanna reportedly jetted in from Germany to meet her new boyfriend Matt Kemp' family for the first...

Sweden has the most number of bisexual babes in the world and San Francisco is the kinkiest place to visit - these are some of the facts revealed by a new...

Gursewak Dhillon, a part-time taxi driver who dumped three-year-old Gurshan Singh Channa's body nearly 20 km from his home in this Australian city, was being probed for 'possible immigration fraud', an official said...

Nicklas Bendtner scored a superb hat-trick as Arsenal produced a virtuoso performance to crush Porto 5-0 to storm into the quarter-finals of the Champions League...

Cypriot authorities Tuesday arrested two people, including an Indian national, for allegedly stealing the corpse of former president Tassos Papadopoulos from his grave three months ago and said the suspects had earlier demanded a...

Actress Brooke Shields says being famous is like a 'drug' because it gives such great...

Hollywood star Johnny Depp's girlfriend Vanessa Paradis has been signed on as the new face of Chanel Coco Cocoon...

British pop star Robbie Williams has come under fire from anti-drugs campaigners for championing marijuana as a 'lovely'...

Rolling Stones' guitarist Ronnie Wood's celebrity friends are leaving no stone unturned to help their pal overcome his alcohol...

Hollywood star Sean Penn's representative has denied reports that the actor was thrown out of the Governor's Ball after picking up a fight with producer Greg...

Russia will provide by the end of 2010 the first batch of low-enriched uranium for an international nuclear fuel reserve bank under control of the UN nuclear watchdog IAEA, a senior official...

Actress Brooke Shields is planning to narrate her side of the story about her marriage to retired tennis ace Andre Agassi in her own...

Cage-fighter Alex Reid, who doesn't mind men fantasizing about him, refused to pose nude for a gay magazine because he wanted to maintain his...

Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham says her heart goes out to heartbroken singer Cheryl Cole, whose husband Ashley Cole has cheated on...

Russia arrested 10 men, held in a raid that killed a prominent insurgent last week, as suspects in a deadly November train bombing, Russian news agencies reported on Wednesday. The suspects were...

Defender John Pantsil told UEFA.com Fulham FC will not be overawed by heavyweights Juventus as they prepare for their last-16 tie. "We're not afraid of anyone – whoever comes, we are ready," he...

While the rest of the world has been pursuing business opportunities in South America, Berlin has been sitting on its hands. Now, with Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle looking for a signature...

At least three Swedish newspapers published a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog after an alleged plot to murder the artist who created it was uncovered in...

New figures from the Central Bank show that at the end of January Irish residents - mostly companies and institutions - had an outstanding debt of €1.1 trillion. Figures for issued debt...

New figures from the Central Bank show that at the end of January, Irish residents - mostly companies and institutions - had an outstanding debt of €1.1 trillion. Figures for issued debt...

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Street signs warning Romanian drivers to be careful of drunken pedestrians lying on roads were erected by road safety chiefs worried about the "despairing" levels of accidents. Officials in Pecica,...

The Large Hadron Collider, the world's biggest atom smasher, will shut down for a year to repair mistakes that were made in its construction. Dr Steve Myers, a director of the European Organisation...

(PARIS) - Claims the Pentagon skewed bidding rules for a tanker jet contract in favour of an American manufacturer will have serious consequences for EU-US relations, a French minister said...

Rome - As it sometimes happens in two-leg knock-out situations, Fiorentina were left with a bitter victory as they said farewell to their dreams of advancing to the Champions League's quarter-finals....

The Middle East advertising industry is lagging behind other key markets in its attempts to embrace the opportunities of new media, a leading industry figure has...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GENEVA -- An international group of lawyers wants a U.N. human rights body to help an activist Chinese lawyer who has been missing for more than a year. The lawyers say the...

Oligarch Boris Berezovsky has won a libel case over allegations he was behind the murder of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko.He was awarded £150,000 at the High Court over a claim made...

The President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, has said he pities Nigel Farage, the British MEP who called him a "damp rag" last month.Mr Van Rompuy said his popularity had...

Authorities in Spain have said that the situation is improving after 220,000 people were left without power following some of the worst snow and ice storms in decades. Rail lines and roads were...

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- British factory output showed an unexpected fall in January, while French and Italian production rose more than anticipated, according to data released Wednesday. U.K....

Submit your comment Eurozone economies including Greece have put a dampener on early optimism about South Africa's recovery, as Europe remains the country's biggest trading partner, BoE Private...

The National Statistics Office has reported that preliminary figures show that the visible trade gap narrowed by €78.8 million in January 2010 when compared to the corresponding month last...

March 10, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- - New WHO Reports Show Progress in Reducing Environmental Hazards to Health but Growing Inequalities in Exposure Representatives of 53 Member States from the WHO...

/PRNewswire/ -- The recent weakening of the euro against the US dollar has opened up new opportunities for US, Middle and Far Eastern expatriate investors looking to purchase property in the Euro...

Russia and India are close to signing a contract on the construction of the third and fourth power units at the Kudankulam nuclear power plant, Indian atomic industry officials said Wednesday. The...

MUMBAI, March 10 (RIA Novosti) - India wants to expand civilian nuclear power cooperation with Russia and is planning to sign a document on joint nuclear research soon, a high-ranking Indian nuclear...

India may join Russia's nuclear center of a low-enriched uranium (LEU) reserves project in Angarsk, the chairman of India's Atomic Energy Research Commission said. "India is interested as a donor...

(AP) — BERN, Switzerland - Switzerland will travel to face Austria in an Aug. 11 warm-up match before beginning their qualifying campaign for the 2012 European Championship. The Alpine...

The Russian government said it had lowered its oil export tariff from the current 270.7 U.S. dollars per ton to 253.6 dollars, starting March 1.According to a statement published on the government...

Goalkeeper Helton said "to lose a game like this, in the manner we did isn't easy to accept" after FC Porto failed to defend their first-leg lead, losing 5-0 at Arsenal FC to bow out of the...

Armand Duka is beginning a third successive term of office at the helm of the Football Association of Albania (FShF) after he was re-elected at the organisation's general...

Valencia CF have bad memories of Werder Bremen and have struggled against German sides in recent years, but captain David Albelda says they will face the last 16 tie with "calm...

REUTERS US President Barack Obama has a vision of a world without nuclear weapons. But disarmament talks with Russian President Dimitry Medvedev are proving...

Karen Johnston, who has already been through menopause, fell pregnant after visiting two clinics in the Czech Republic where she underwent IVF treatment using donor eggs.Johnston, who gave birth to...

Drug smugglers's fake fruit wasn't enough to deceive Dutch customs officials and get $US25 million ($A27.37 million) worth of cocaine into the...