Volkswagen (VW) shares rose sharply Tuesday, a day after sports carmaker Porsche announced it had acquired a majority stake in its German...

Abohar, Jan.6 : People of Punjab are known for enjoying their lives to the full. And, the feeling of family and brotherhood being integral to their day-to-day lifestyle can charm anyone, especially those from the western...

Mokuchung (Nagaland), Jan.6 : Sports have always been a strong medium of bringing people closer to each other. And this is what Volleyball is doing to the north-east region of the country....

Lahore, Jan.6 : Pakistan's top middle order batsman, Younis Khan, has urged the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to provide better sporting facilities at the domestic arena to plift the standards of the sport in the...

They have battled for the hearts and minds of the British public countless times, but now Gordon Brown and David Cameron have turned their attention to the stomachs of the electorate, providing rival...

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TALLAHASSEE | Seeking a sudden end to a growing controversy, House Speaker Ray Sansom on Monday quit his $110,000 vice president's position with a state-run...

Japan’s video game market shrank for the first time in four years in 2008 in the absence of new console launches, a report said Tuesday. Sales of video games and consoles in Japan dropped 15.3 per...

State police say the boy suffered only minor injuries and authorities drove him to school after he was evaluated at a local hospital. Sgt. Tom Cunningham said the boy arrived shortly after lunch.It...

A baby has died and six others were in isolation last night after an infection broke out in a hospital's neonatal unit. The baby, who was born prematurely at Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham...

An Essex post office bucked the closure trend and reopened as part of a three-year partnership with the county council. Mark Gould finds out how it happened and whether it could be replicated...

ST. PAUL, Minn. | A Minnesota board Monday certified results showing Democrat Al Franken winning the state's U.S. Senate recount over Republican Norm Coleman, whose lawyer promised a legal challenge...

The housing minister Margaret Beckett, called back into top-level government after a year's gap, tells Peter Hetherington why local councils must be given a greater role in housebuilding as the...

As the cold and credit crunch bite, more and more people are turning to open fires to keep themselves warm and cut down on skyrocketing fuel bills. But it isn't only about saving money; there's...

Given that most of us don't live in houses with huge grand pianos on which to display serried ranks of silver photograph frames, we need to find other ways of showing off our nearest and dearest...

The iPhone has inspired a new generation of imitators, from Nokia to BlackBerry. So just how smart are these smartphones – and should Apple be worried? Simon Usborne gets...

Bored with sitting in silence at bath time? This, my attention deficit disordered friend is the device for you. Load it up with MP3 files, pop it into the warm water or your tub and not only will...

So that's it then. The end of light as we know it. Shops have stopped replenishing their stocks of traditional tungsten light bulbs, and expect to have run out by the end of the week. But to judge...

For years, most Americans knew sake -- assuming they knew it at all -- as a hot, jet fuel-like drink sipped from thimble-size cups between bites of sushi. Turns out, we were swallowing schlock. ...

There's been so much guff written recently about the micro-blogging service called Twitter that I almost feel guilty for bringing the subject up. It's been 18 months since a reader first emailed in...

A good 10 years after we started to accept that the world wide web might have some conceivable use, the process of getting a website up and running is still seen by many as some kind of black art. In...

A woman who contracted rabies while abroad died in hospital in Belfast last night, her family said. Lisa McMurray, who was in her 30s, had been in a critical condition in the intensive care unit...

The economic slump may be hitting your love life soon. A survey by eHarmony found that more than half of Americans are feeling stress in their romantic lives because of their economic situations....

More than 1,000 people are dying every year from a poison gas which seeps out of the ground because current building guidelines are not stringent enough, researchers warn. The gas is called...

USOC chief of sport performance Steve Roush at a press conference just days before the Beijing Games began. One of his main accomplishments was helping the U.S. win the medal total in...

Ministers have ordered hospitals in England to relax their ban on the use of mobile phones as fears about their interaction with sensitive medical equipment have receded. But NHS managers warned...

The beginning of the year marks a clean slate in most areas, but the stars might just be able to tell you how your romantic life will play out in 2009. (Click by...

ROSEBURGPreseason tennis program offeredThe Umpqua Valley Tennis Club is offering a pre-season training program for all high school age students in Douglas County, from Jan. 14 through Feb. 19. The...

'Chocolat' author Joanne Harris loves the fact that her house is in the country: there's silence to write, and she can make loads of noise without the neighbours...

, despite media reports they had publicly sparred several times over the holidays. In a brief post on her MySpace blog, the 22-year-old actor wrote: "We did NOT break up!" Lohan asked several media...

Nearly 60 percent of the air traffic control towers and other key aviation facilities run by the Federal Aviation Administration are more than 30 years old and plagued by leaks, mold and foggy...

ZUSHI — It is about as far from the Olympic sport of archery as it can get. The bow is taller than the person shooting it, and, to the uninitiated, it appears lopsided and unbalanced. There...

Eagles beat Vikings, 26-14, in NFC playoffs; Ravens score 17 unanswered points and defeat Dolphins, 27-9, in the AFC; Atlanta's Mike Smith wins AP NFL coach of the year award by one vote; Boston...

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Exercise equipment can be an expensive investment so it pays to do your homework and find the one that’s right for you. To help sort through all the choices, the editors...

E-mail newsletters The burgers at the Cherry Hut restaurant in Beulah, Mich., are a hit with customers. But these aren't ordinary hamburgers. Every summer, when tourists come to sample the state's...

I fell in love with the preserved lemons I think are used in Morocco, but they are really spendy. They are so good in so many things. Do you have a recipe? -- Mark in...

All-time favourites like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella and Rapunzel are no longer being told to kids as caring parents feel that the bedtime stories could emotionally damage kids. ...

London, Jan 06: It has long been associated with negativity, but according to researchers, the colour blue can send self-confidence soaring and boost happiness...

E-mail newsletters Hectic and hardworking, my kitchen tends to attract stuff, lots of stuff – things I love and cannot seem to let go. It collects surreptitiously in drawers and on countertops,...

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London, Jan 06: Those who believe gossip is nothing but idle talk or rumour think again, for a new study advises employers to use it to their advantage instead of fruitlessly seeking to stamp it...

Quibian Salazar-Moreno Right now you’re probably playing catch up with all the great games that came out the last few months, but you better hurry up. There’s a lot more coming in 2009....

Artist's conceptions of the Milky Way might give you the impression that astronomers have a precise notion of what our galaxy looks like, but you'd be wrong. In fact, new observations suggest that...

BROOKSVILLE | Hernando schools officials missed at least one flag that might have tipped them off to potential wrongdoing by a teacher who was arrested last week on sex...

Could sharing a cuppa change lives? Could "meaningful social interaction" make all the difference to local quality of life?Whether it's hugging hoodies, challenging antisocial behaviour, promoting...

Blotter fodder: Isaac Cornetti poses with a copy of his crime paper, ‘The Slammer.’ He goes by the nom de plume ’Dash Dangerfield’ on the masthead. (Ashley Lorenz/Courtesy of Isaac W....

PITY it's just a shopping list. Keeping fit is free: exercise, eat well, work and play as hard as you like to. And smile! All you have to pay with is your time. Don't do to fitness what...

Scarlets and Wales three-quarter Mark Jones is a doubt for the start of the Six Nations after undergoing an operation to remove his appendix. The winger from Builth Wells, 29, is one of his...