The Pope has defended celibacy as a commitment to God, following increasing allegations of sexual...

Singer-actress Jessica Simpson has admitted she does not brush her teeth and just wipes them with her...

American actor Nick Cannon wants to make a comedy film with wife Mariah Carey, saying she is the funniest person he...

Legendary rocker Ozzy Osbourne's wife Sharon Osbourne is unhappy about her weight but can't motivate herself to do anything about...

Singer Mark Owen has checked into a rehabilitation centre after being thrown out of his house by his wife Emma Ferguson when he confessed to having had at least 10...

Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez, who has two-year-old twins with husband Marc Anthony says, her family is the most important thing in her...

Aussie players proved a little too much for the Germans playing in the Hockey World Cup final on Saturday, as Team Australia with its speed and brilliant use of tactics managed to win the cup after a 24 year hiatus with a 2-1 win over defending champions Germany...

Pundit Jankie Persad Sharma, a pioneer of the Hindu religion and culture in Trinidad and Tobago and Canada, has died. He had begun the practice of celebrating Diwali on the Caribbean island, apart from constructing several temples, conducting weddings and organising trips to India for the...

India's Saina Nehwal stormed into the women's semifinal of the All England Badminton Championship with a stunning 21-8, 21-14 quarterfinal win over Germany's Juliane Schenk in 27 minutes at the National Indoor Arena in...

Singer Peter Andre, who is currently on 'The Revelation Tour', is curing his throat problem by eating Japanese...

American director Steven Spielberg has cast 'Jurassic Park' child star Joe Mazzello in his new World War II mini-series 'The...

Hollywood actress Jennifer Aniston has slammed rumours that she is pretending to date co-star Gerard Butler to promote their movie 'The Bounty...

Reports indicate that at least two mass graves containing dozens of people killed by the Nazis have been found on property used by the Austrian...

One of the oldest available anti-seizure medications, ethosuximide, is the most effective treatment for childhood absence epilepsy, a new study...

A travel and food columnist Puneetinder Kaur Sidhu has encapsulated her inexpensive travel experiences in Europe in her forthcoming travelogue, 'Adrift: A junket junkie in...

Putting male names before female names in writing is a remnant of sexist thinking, a new study...

England midfielder Frank Lampard has admitted that he would not mind 'cheating' like France striker Thierry Henry did against Ireland if it meant getting his team through to the World Cup...

Hollywood star Penelope Cruz has commissioned musician Mick Jagger's girlfriend model L'Wren Scott to design a gown for her wedding with fellow Spaniard and actor Javier...

Popular singer Shakira, who is engaged to lawyer Antonio de la Rua, says she is unable to settle in one place as her work commitments take her all over the...

Singer Jennifer Hudson and fiance David Otunga, who have been busy finalising details for their wedding, are now focusing on arranging a holiday after the...

Thousands of students and teachers took to the streets here Friday to protest against French President Nicolas Sarkozy's education reforms, Xinhua...

del.icio.us Irish authorities are investigating whether a second American woman was involved in a plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist for drawing an image of the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a...

Bosnia and Herzegovina Still Struggling Serbian police have detained nine former paramilitary fighters suspected of killing civilians and looting homes during the war in Kosovo in the late 1990s.The...

Euro zone finance ministers are likely to agree on Monday on the principles and parameters of financial help to Greece, if it is required, but leave out any sums until Athens asks for them, an EU...

In this photo released by Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI, left, meets Archbishop Robert Zollitsch during an audience in his private library at the Vatican, Friday,...

The President of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, has expressed a preliminary accord with the idea to establish the European analogue of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The...

Sweden's foreign minister deplored Saturday a vote by his country's parliament branding the events of 1915 as genocide as counterproductive. "It's regrettable because the politisation of...

New Delhi Australia shattered Germany's dream of registering the first hat-trick of world titles in the history of the game, beating the double defending champions 2-1 in the summit clash of the Hero...

China's seemingly unquenchable thirst for wine has ousted America as Bordeaux's number one client outside Europe, the latest figures showed.With overall exports down a large 23 percent in 2009,...

PARIS (Reuters) - The search for the wreckage and black boxes of an Air France aircraft which crashed into the Atlantic last year killing all 228 people on board will resume on 25 March, newspaper Le...

Olympic champion Maria Riesch of Germany won her second straight slalom World Cup title with a third-place finish in the final race of the season on Saturday. Marlies Schild of Austria won the race...

The Vatican has denounced attempts to link Pope Benedict to a child abuse scandal in his native Germany.A Vatican spokesman said there had been "aggressive" efforts to involve the Pope, but...

SAARISELKA, Finland (Reuters) - The foreign ministers of Turkey and Sweden condemned on Saturday a vote in the Swedish parliament that defined the early 20th-century killing of Armenians by Ottoman...

Euro zone finance ministers are likely to agree on Monday on the principles and parameters of financial help to Greece, if it is required, but leave out any sums until Athens asks for them, an EU...

BRUSSELS: Germany's finance ministry said on Saturday it was not aware of any agreement by euro zone members to bail out heavily indebted Greece, and the European Union's executive said no such...

NEW DELHI: Power-packed Australia proved third time lucky as they won the hockey World Cup after a 24 year hiatus with a 2-1 win over defending champions Germany on Saturday. Luke Doerner...

DUBLIN (AP) - It often starts as a voice in the wilderness, but can swell into an entire nation's demand for truth. From Ireland to Germany, Europe's many victims of child abuse in the Roman Catholic...

The foreign ministers of Turkey and Sweden condemned on Saturday a vote in the Swedish parliament that defined the 1915 incidents in Ottoman era as genocide. Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, who...

Christian Eriksen follows a long line of great Danes at AFC Ajax, and, after breaking into the first team, the 18-year-old is already making a case for a place in his country's FIFA World Cup...