August2018

Cliff Richard announced Wednesday he will release his first album of new material in 14 years, a month after the veteran British pop star won a landmark privacy case. Richard, 77, said the album “Rise Up”,...

Monsoon rains caused a central Myanmar dam to overflow early Wednesday, inundating about 100 villages and blocking the country’s biggest highway, a government official said. No casualties have been reported but thousands were displaced and took...

Nearly 11,000 women die of uterus cancer annually in Bangladesh, while about five crore females are at risk to be affected by the disease, a recent research said. The research conducted by a team of uterus...

Goats can distinguish smiling human faces from frowning ones on photos, and actively seek out snapshots of happier individuals, a study said on Wednesday. Shown two pictures of the same person — one with a happy...

Furniture retailer IKEA will shut three city center stores in Norway as part of a drive to cut costs amid declining profits, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Known as service and pick-up points,...

India’s Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd said on Wednesday Fiat Chrysler Automobiles U.S. LLC filed a patent violation complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission against the company. As per the complaint, certain design features of Mahindra’s...

Adults with mood disorders like anxiety and depression may be more likely to have a heart attack or stroke than people without mental illness, a new study suggests. Researchers enrolled 221,677 people age 45 and older...

Luxury carmaker Aston Martin says it may float on the London stock market, completing a turnaround that has seen the firm boost sales and profits. The flotation would be the first by a UK carmaker for...

Asian markets enjoyed broad gains for a third day on Wednesday but investors moved more cautiously as they took stock of the latest trade developments and looked to possible headwinds. New York provided another record lead on...

A 7.1-magnitude earthquake jolted near New Caledonia on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. The powerful quake, which occurred at 0351 GMT, was centered 209 km west of Ile Hunter, New Caledonia, with a depth...