Amitabh Bachchan is long used to all sorts of off-screen controversies hounding him, ever since his stint in active politics in the mid-80s.
What happens when a writer, to his utter horror, begins to suspect that one of his most idiosyncratic characters from a recent novel resembles a real person he has never met?
Reigning world series champions Fiji fired a clear Olympic warning as they blitzed rivals New Zealand 21-7 to win the Hong Kong Sevens in convincing fashion yesterday.
Left for dead after four innings, the San Francisco Giants became the walking dead. The sac-bunting dead. The singling and doubling dead.
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman started a five-day visit to Cairo in a show of support for Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, with the leaders due to sign a raft of investment deals.
A link to a website which publishes photos without authorisation of the author does not in itself constitute a copyright infringement, an adviser to Europe's top court said on Thursday.
A far-right Israeli politician has been admonished by his party and roundly condemned by commentators after suggesting Jewish
The Academic Bridge Programme (ABP), a member of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF), and City University London (CUL) have signed a partnership, giving ABP graduates the opportunity to continue their studies in London.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has announced the formation of a commission to investigate allegations made in the so-called Panama Papers that linked his family to a series of offshore companies.
The success of the April 17 meeting of major oil producers in Doha will be a major step forward in stabilising the global oil market, which has been challenged by declining prices since mid-2014.
Venezuela will reduce power generation if the key Guri dam, which supplies around half of the blackout-hit country’s electricity, falls below a minimum level that is fast approaching, an official said on Friday.
The government yesterday raised the minimum wage by 7.5% in a move denounced by critics as largely symbolic in an era of state austerity.
