May2018

Olivier Giroud and Nabil Fekir were on target as France stepped up their World Cup preparations by beating the Republic of Ireland 2-0 in Paris on Monday evening. Chelsea striker Giroud bundled in the opener at...

A site for a controversial art installation and memorial to the victims of the 2015 Paris attacks by US artist Jeff Koons has still not been found, the culture ministry said Monday. The brightly coloured “Bouquet...

Disgraced Australian stars David Warner and Cameron Bancroft will return to competitive cricket at a low-level limited-overs tournament in the country’s tropical north in July, it was announced Tuesday. Warner is serving a year-long ban from...

The Bangladesh national cricket team leave for India tomorrow (Tuesday) morning to take part in the three-match T20I series against Afghanistan scheduled to be held on June 3-7. The matches will be played at newly built...

Hurricane Maria killed 4,600 people in Puerto Rico, 70 times the official toll, a Harvard University study says. A third of those deaths after last September’s hurricane was due to interruptions in medical care caused by...

Shares in Dixons Carphone have sunk by nearly 20% after it warned of a sharp fall in profits this year. The mobile phone and electrical goods retailer also said it would close 92 of its more than 700...

New research on different colors and shapes of bread, presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity in Vienna, Austria (23-26 May), shows that star-shaped bread is particularly popular with young children and could help them...

Across England, Wales, and Scotland, morbid obesity (BMI of 40kg/m² or over) rates in adults are expected to soar over the next 17 years, with the number of morbidly obese adults likely to exceed 4 million...

Sizable number of working journalists in northeast India faces malfunction of liver and abnormal lipid profile. Two recent screening camps, organized at Guwahati Press Club for the benefit of its member-journalists, revealed that almost one-fifth of...

Palestinian militants fired more than 25 mortar bombs from Gaza into Israel on Tuesday, the Israeli military said, in one of the heaviest barrages in years. No casualties were reported as sirens sounding across Israeli towns...