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US actor Tracy Morgan hurt in bus crash 08 Jun 2014 - 01:38 am

NEWARK, New Jersey: The actor and comedian Tracy Morgan (pictured) was seriously injured when his limo bus overturned in a road accident involving...

Saying it with flowers 08 Jun 2014 - 01:37 am

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II receives flowers while visiting the Flower Market with France’s President Francois Hollande (centre) in central Paris, France, yesterday. The...

The ‘Sherlock Holmes’ of Himalayan mountaineering 07 Jun 2014 - 01:17 am

KATHMANDU: When a deadly avalanche hit Mount Everest last April, reporters made a beeline for 90-year-old Elizabeth Hawley (pictured), the woman Edmund Hillary...

Quenching thirst 07 Jun 2014 - 01:14 am

A vulture drinks water from a hole in a patch of grass as temperatures in the Indian capital New Delhi rose above 46...

Beauty and the beast 06 Jun 2014 - 07:20 am

A visitor poses for a photograph with a stuffed wolf during an international agro-industrial exhibition near the village of Urozhaynaya, some 15km from...

Meat-pie vendor looks like China president 06 Jun 2014 - 07:19 am

Meat-pie vendor Shao Jianhua (left), who looks like Chinese President Xi Jinping, being interviewed at his stall in Changsha in central China’s Hunan...

Saving the whale 06 Jun 2014 - 07:18 am

Members of the animal rights organization PETA rally against whaling with signs which read ‘Stop the whale massacre at Faroe Islands!’, in front...

Samsung’s Tizen phone touted for bigger things 04 Jun 2014 - 08:09 am

SAN FRANCISCO: Samsung yesterday unwrapped its new smartphone using the Tizen platform, a move aimed at breaking away from Google’s Android and staking...

Catching stallions 01 Jun 2014 - 12:43 am

Catchers prepare to catch stallions during the traditional wild horse catching event at Merfelder Bruch, near Duelmen, Germany, yesterday. Every spring, one-year-old stallions...

No to tobacco 31 May 2014 - 01:38 am

Indian schoolchildren make a human ‘No Smoking’ sign during an awarness programme on the eve of World No Tobacco Day in Patiala yesterday....

Scans reveal Richard III not a hunchback 31 May 2014 - 01:37 am

A facial reconstruction of King Richard III is displayed at a news conference in central London in this file photo. LONDON: The Shakespearean...

Bullfighting festival 28 May 2014 - 01:00 am

Spanish bullfighter Matias Tejela fights against his first bull on the 18th day of the San Isidro festival at Las Ventas bullring in...

All for the cheese 26 May 2014 - 11:22 pm

Competitors tumble down Coopers Hill in pursuit of a round Double Gloucester cheese during the annual ‘Cheese Rolling and Wake’ near the village...

White peacock 26 May 2014 - 06:27 am

A white peacock opens its plumage at the Nogeyama zoo in Yokohama, Tokyo, yesterday. Visitors enjoy a male Indina peacock spreading beautiful feathers...

Goldsmith beetle 24 May 2014 - 11:51 pm

A goldsmith beetle flies over stone-breaker flowers in a garden outside Moscow.

King Richard III to be re-buried near scene of his death 24 May 2014 - 01:15 am

A view of Leicester Cathedral in central England. Britain’s High Court ordered yesterday that King Richard III should be reburied in a cathedral...

Flamingoes taking a nap 24 May 2014 - 01:12 am

Greater flamingoes gather at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, yesterday. The Ueno Zoo is the oldest zoo in Japan, which opened in 1882. During...

Dolan’s troubled teen wows at Cannes 23 May 2014 - 01:09 am

CANNES: Whizz-kid Canadian director Xavier Dolan screened a tour-de-force black comedy at Cannes about a disturbed teenager’s relationship with his mother, while Ken...