Bangladesh hangs 1971 war criminal Kamaruzzaman

DHAKA: Bangladesh authorities on Saturday hanged a top Islamist leader for overseeing a massacre during the nation's 1971 independ...

Isaac Newton invented calculus because his University closed due to the bubonic plague!

Isaac Newton – the scientist who died a virgin – was born on January 4, 1643 or Christmas Day of the previous year based on the Julian...

Steven Spielberg put every actor in Saving Private Ryan through army training… except for Matt Damon!

The film Saving Private Ryan was precipitated by a monument Robert Rodat saw in 1994 in Putney Corners, New Hampshire that memorialize...

Eminem was one of the highest scoring Donkey Kong players in the world!

Marshall Mathers III, aka Eminem, was proud to let the world know that not only does he engage in some Donkey Kong guilty pleasures, b...

Israel asked Albert Einstein to be their president in 1952.

It’s an offer many of us would not think twice about: ceremoniously heading one of the most wild card countries and freedom to flex th...

Napoleon claimed he was abducted by aliens and scientists found a microchip in his head

Whether the claims by Napoleon Bonaparte are true or false remains divided opinion, with some rubbishing the claims while others belie...

Indian hockey team surprised me: Paul van Ass

NEW DELHI: Chief coach Paul van Ass said that he was surprised with the way the Indian hockey team came back to win the bronze medal a...

India handed tough draw for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers

NEW DELHI: The Indian football team has been drawn in a tough group alongside top Asian nation Iran, Oman, Turkmenistan and Guam for t...

US receives record number of H-1B visa applications

WASHINGTON: Applications for H-1B visas allowing US businesses to hire foreign workers in science, engineering and computer programmin...

The first eBay auction was for a broken laser pointer

Some eBay trivia…What was the name used originally by eBay? – AuctionWeb. When was the company founded? eBay was founded in 1995 as Au...

Your tongue is the strongest muscle in your body.

This fact is up for debate, so let me save you the hustle. See, a number of muscles in the human body could lay claim to this title, d...

People who stay up late at night are likely to be more intelligent than those who go to bed early

Contrary to the old adage that the earlier you got to bed the wiser you become (who came up with this anyway?), research now proves th...

Pakistan's Punjab government challenges LHC decision to release Lakhvi

LAHORE: Pakistan's Punjab government on Tuesday challenged the Lahore high court's decision to suspend the detention of LeT o...

Apple Watch beats Android Wear's first year sales

The launch of the Apple Watch has gotten off to a good start, with Apple seeing 1 million preorders in the US for its new smartwatch o...

Digital ad spend to rise significantly in India

India's media ad spend is just 1.1 per cent of the global total, according to eMarketer . This year, ad spending will rise 8 per c...

Islamic State battle to dominate US-Iraq White House talks

WASHINGTON: Iraq's prime minister will plead for more US military support in the war against insurgent Islamic State jihadists dur...

Flipkart pulls out of Airtel's net neutrality violating Airtel Zero

Indian e-tailing giant Flipkart seems to have relaised that it can no longer ignore the growing chorus against net neutrality. As just...

ISIS releases video, warns US of another 9/11-like attack

NEWYORK: Isis has released a video which states there is now "no safety for any American on the globe'" and that there ...

Google tried to sell itself for $1 million in 1999

Would you believe Google wanted to cash in for $1 million in its early days? True, and what’s also true is that no one was interested in...

Female kangaroos have three vaginas

The biology of a female kangaroo is just out of this world. Mating even doesn’t begin to explain it. For starters, female kangaroos have t...

Beautiful women are more likely to give birth to daughters

Jessica Alba, Beyonce, Kim Kardashian (love her or hate her) – have one thing in common: they are blessed in the looks department and they...

Nyotaimori is the Japanese tradition of eating sushi off a perfectly still, And naked woman’s body

Nyotaimori is a form of sushi consumption that involves eating off a woman’s body. The word can be roughly translated to mean the ‘adorned...

Accessing apps may soon be free but not fair. Here’s why.

When Indian telecom scene is facing the big question of net neutrality, telecom operator Airtel seems to be pulling the right plug by intr...

Fight for net neutrality unites internet

NEW DELHI: For once, the constant bickering on the internet and social media has been put aside. People of all beliefs and affiliations ha...

The voice of Darth Vader was mute for 8 years when he was a kid!

Not many an actor can boast as fantastic a voice as James Earl Jones whose booming voicebox has become a characteristic feature of box off...

Teenagers who spend much of their time listening to music are more likely to be depressed!

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine carried out a study in 2011 that gauged the depression statistics of teenag...

A woman in Russia once caught her boyfriend cheating when she saw his photo with another woman using street view on Google Maps.

A Russian woman was using Yandex Maps – Russia’s version of Google Maps’ Street View – when she switched to a mode that enables one to get...

After sex, some men experience sadness and regret, which is known as Post-coital tristesse.

You probably have experienced it, but didn’t know what it was. Well, it’s actually normal, and the word for it is PCT (post-coital tristes...

Canada has more lakes that the rest of the world put together.

Most of the lakes in the world are fresh water, with the majority of them located in the Northern Hemisphere. Canada is the second largest...

Pope calls Armenian slaughter '1st genocide of 20th century

VATICAN CITY: Francis has called the slaughter of Armenians 100 years ago by the Ottoman Empire "the first genocide of the 20th ...