London, June 5 (IANS) Pop star Rihanna and model-actress Cara Delevingne are reportedly ready to ink each other with the help of New York-based renowned tattoo artist Bang Bang. “The girls love the idea of giving each other a tattoo,” dailystar.co.uk quoted a source as saying. “Rihanna is used to [...]

Los Angeles, June 5 (IANS) Actress Jada Smith, who is married to actor Will Smith, says gossip has destroyed marriages and she has been affected too. But now she takes it with a pinch of salt. “I have been affected by gossip and I know people who have been too. [...]

Mexico City, June 5 (IANS/EFE) Mexico hopes to forge a “comprehensive strategic association” with China, President Enrique Peña Nieto said here Tuesday during a ceremony to welcome Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. “Your presence in Mexico will allow content to be given to the new phase of cooperation between (our) nations,” [...]

Sydney, June 5 (IANS) Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations (FICA) chief executive Tim May resigned Wednesday and blasted the International Cricket Council (ICC) for its failure to stand up against the big bully in world cricket, India. In a statement released Wednesday, the Australian announced his resignation from the post [...]

Islamabad, June 5 (IANS) The country wants a solid democratic order “free of dictators”, a leading Pakistani daily said Wednesday. “…a sentiment is resonating in the country for the establishment of a solid democratic order free of dictators and their cohorts among politicians,” said an editorial in the Dawn Wednesday, [...]

Brasilia, June 5 (IANS/EFE) The Brazilian government has announced that it is increasing the amount of money available for subsidized loans to the farm sector by 18 percent to 136 billion reais ($68 billion). With that financing, it is seeking to guarantee a “big increase in production levels”, President Dilma [...]

Mumbai, June 5 (IANS) “Gangs Of Wasseypur” actress Richa Chadda says “Ishqeria” will see her in a typical romantic role opposite Neil Nitin Mukesh. “When I did ‘Gangs…’, everybody was asking me the same question – ‘When will I be seen playing a romantic film?’ So finally I did a [...]

Lucknow, June 5 (IANS) Six young men who had, by mistake, occupied a coach reserved for army personnel were thrown off a moving train by soldiers in Uttar Pradesh, police said Wednesday. The incident occurred on board the Avadh Assam Express near Moradabad, about 340 km from the state capital, [...]

Thiruvananthapuram, June 5 (IANS) Paralysed from the neck down for the last 25 years, this former fighter pilot has become an inspiration for many. The story of M.P. Anil Kumar, who has refused to give up on life, is now out in a documentary fittingly called “And The Fight Goes [...]

Puerto Baquerizo Moreno (Ecuador), June 5 (IANS/EFE) People need to talk about excessive use of antibiotics without getting emotional or mixing politics into the discussion, Ada Yonath, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, said. “Perhaps we committed errors in using antibiotics for treating viral diseases … but we [...]