With Nasa's Maven spacecraft safely in orbit around Mars, the spotlight shifts to India's first mission to the red planet. The Indian spacecraft is due to slip into Martian orbit at 2.11pm on Wednesday, New Zealand time, after firing its rockets for 24 minutes to ...

Speculating over the status of the controversial 2022 World Cup has become a favorite pastime for anyone connected to soccer. So when an official from FIFA, the sport's world governing body, proffers an opinion, it immediately ripples out. On Monday, it was ...

Earlier today (Sept. 22), a story appeared on TechCrunch that stated Apple would be shutting down the recently acquired streaming music service Beats Music, citing five "prominent employees at Apple and Beats." Company reps for Apple and Beats have ...

The actress Emma Watson is being targeted by hackers who are threatening to publish nude photos of her in retaliation for her speech where she announced that she was a feminist. Although the countdown does not specifically say that naked pictures will be ...

WASHINGTON: Investigators found more than 800 rounds of ammunition, a machete and two hatchets in the car of the former soldier accused of scaling the White House fence and sprinting inside while carrying a knife, a US prosecutor said on Monday.

Main engine test-firing successful, putting India on course to become the first nation in the world to go to Mars in the maiden attempt. Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully test-fired the Mars Orbiter Mission's (MOM) main ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A group of 13 countries, the European Union and the United Nations on Monday called for an immediate and comprehensive ceasefire and political dialogue in Libya, rejecting any outside interference in the conflict-torn North African ...

By Ulf Laessing. TOBRUK, Libya, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Libya's elected parliament approved on Monday a new cabinet proposed by Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni, a parliamentary spokesman said. The House of Representatives agreed on a second cabinet ...

Hundreds of thousands of people held a massive climate change protest in New York City on Sunday, coinciding with the United Nations climate summit. The protest, the People's Climate March, began at Columbus Circle near Central Park and it took hours ...

The Mars orbiter liquid engine test firing which was crucial in determining the fate of Mars Orbiter mission has been successful, as confirmed by ISRO. After igniting the engine, ISRO tweeted, “Mars Orbiter engine test firing must have completed. We'll get a ...

The 2022 soccer World Cup will be held in Qatar despite doubts raised by a German FIFA executive committee member because of extreme heat in the desert state, local organisers said on Monday. 49 minutes ago Reuters. 0 shares ...

The company Monday said it sold more than 10 million of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models in the first three days they were available in stores. That is higher than the 9 million new iPhones it sold last year in their first weekend on sale. The phones' larger ...

Commuters are ferried on a three-wheeled tricycle locally known as "sidecar" after heavy monsoon rains spawned by tropical storm Fung-Wong flooded Manila and most parts of the metropolis last week. Taiwan evacuated more than 2,700 people from ...

European captain Paul McGinley insists Rory McIlroy will be fresh and raring to go when the 40th Ryder Cup gets under way at Gleneagles on Friday, but hinted that Graeme McDowell may not be alongside him when it does. McIlroy and McDowell have been ...

After a jittery start, Chennai Super Kings will look for a turnaround to get their campaign back on track when they take on South African team Nashua Dolphins in a Group A match. ALSO SEE Live Scorecard. Chennai had lost their opening encounter against ...

Activists in New York are marching and staging a sit-in the day before a climate change summit at the UN. (Source: CNN). (CNN) - Hundreds of activists are trying to shut down the New York Stock Exchange. Their aim is to highlight the relationship between ...

Harry Potter star delivers powerful speech on gender inequality as she launches her 'HeForShe' campaign. By News Desk. Published: September 22, 2014. Tweet · Share this article Print this page Email. Watson, who aims to involve men in her gender ...

New Delhi: All is well. India's maiden Mars mission on Monday entered the Martian neighbourhood, barely two days before its planned arrival in orbit. India's state-owned space agency said that the main rocket engine of the Mars Orbiter Mission (MoM) ...

A screengrab taken on July 13, 2014 from a video released by the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram and obtained by AFP shows the leader of the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau (centre), referring to the Bring ...

Firing the 440 Newton Liquid Apogee Motor on Monday afternoon positioned India's Mars Orbiter in the 'Entry into Sphere of Influence of Mars'. This means the Mangalyaan is on the right path to position itself to go around Mars. Scientists at India Space ...