In a first, a Royal Australian Air Force P3 Orion has managed to locate two objects in southern Indian objects, says the latest statement issued by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. One of them is a grey or green circular object and the second an orange ...

Canberra/Perth/Beijing: The search for the missing Malaysian airliner ended Saturday in the southern Indian Ocean with the sighting of some objects with the naked eye even as China said that one of its satellites has spotted an object in the search area.

Vatican City: Pope Francis named the initial members of a commission to advise him on sex abuse policy on Saturday, tapping lay and religious experts, and an Irish woman assaulted as a child by a priest, to start plotting the commission's tasks and priorities.

Washington: After the Turkish government implemented a ban on Twitter, users were reportedly still able to tweet after being aided by the microblogging site and Google. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan ordered that the site be taken down for the ...

Washington: Humans can distinguish at least one trillion different odours, millions more than previously anticipated, a new study has found. For decades, it has been believed that humans are capable of discriminating between 10,000 different smells.

Istanbul: EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said on Friday he was "gravely concerned" by a block imposed on Twitter in Turkey as the government battles a corruption scandal days ahead of elections.

Dortmund: Borussia Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp admitted injury to defender Marcel Schmelzer and striker Robert Lewandowski`s suspension had taken the shine off their progress into the Champions League`s quarter-finals. Last season`s finalists ...

Kuala Lumpur: Investigators probing the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner with 239 people on board have discounted reports the plane may have been sighted over the Maldives, Malaysia's Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said.

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia rejected criticism on Tuesday from US government officials that it has not been sharing as much information as it could with foreign governments about the disappearance of passenger jet more than a week ago. Two US security ...

Madrid: Lionel Messi scored a hat-trick to become Barcelona`s all-time record goalscorer as they cut the gap on La Liga leaders Real Madrid to four points ahead of their meeting next weekend with a 7-0 thrashing of Osasuna. After a slow start, the hosts were ...

According to reports, the commander of the missing Malaysia Airline jet Captain Zaharie Afmed Shah had said that there were no problems inside the plane. He also gave all-clear minutes after the transponders were shutdown. Malaysian authorities are now ...

Washington: Microsoft is reportedly following in the footsteps of its rivals by planning on offering its Windows Phone operating system for free or for reduced price. For the past one year, the software giant has been in talks with Indian phone companies to ...

Kuala Lumpur/Malaysia: The international search for the missing Malaysian jetliner expanded on Friday further into the Indian Ocean amid signs the aircraft may have flown on for hours after its last contact with air-traffic control nearly a week ago. A US official ...

London: Researchers have revealed that a new after-sex vagina gel can be used by women to protect themselves against HIV. According to scientists at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, drugs applied three hours after exposure ...

Kiev: Just days before the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea is to hold a referendum on secession, Ukraine's interim President Oleksandr Turchynov has claimed that Russia is provoking Ukraine to act so that Moscow gets a pretext to attack the ex-Soviet bloc.

Malaysia time 4:10 pm/1:45 pm IST: Even as near and dear ones of the passengers of Malaysia Airlines MH370 spend anxious moments hoping for a miracle, the Malaysian authorities have come under fire for mishandling the crisis. From incompetence in ...

Kuala Lumpur: Two days after a Malaysian Airlines jet disappeared mysteriously over South China Sea, the fate of the missing plane remained a mystery on Monday, with Malaysian aviation chief calling it an "unprecedented aviation mystery", adding that a ...

Washington: A new study has found four new man-made gases in the atmosphere which are destroying the ozone layer. The scientists at the University of East Anglia have found that more than 74,000 tonnes of three new chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) and one ...

Paris: Researchers in the United States say they have developed a prototype blood test that can tell with 90 percent accuracy whether a healthy person will develop Alzheimer`s disease within three years. The test looks for 10 signatures of fatty proteins called ...

Mumbai: A day after a mishap on advanced warship INS Kolkata at the Mazagaon Docks Ltd (MDL) here, the Defence Ministry on Saturday ordered a probe into the incident. It was the second major incident affecting the Indian Navy in a fortnight. An officer ...