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He was across the Atlantic when ?the biggest moment? of his career happened. The 28-year-old Indian-origin Briton turned New Yorker, Jay Sean?s song Down had dethroned megaband Black Eyed Peas as the No. 1 single in America on October 7.

The latest international winemaker to fly to Mumbai to promote his wines is Chef Rolando Ruiz Beramendi, social director of Allegrini wines. Allegrini is a 70 hectare family-run wine estate in the lush, hilly Veneto region of north Italy, the country?s most famous wine-growing area.

A US scientist was arrested on Monday and charged with attempted espionage after trying to sell secret documents to an undercover agent he believed was an Israeli spy, the US Justice Department said.

Switzerland on Monday hinted it would be willing to share information with India about the bank accounts of tax defaulters after the two sides revise the existing treaty on double taxation in December.

Shobana Jeyasingh and her dance company have blurred the boundaries between East and West. She has created a new form of dance ? a seamless integration between Bharatnatyam and modern western classical dance.

At least 12 people, including two policemen, were killed during shootouts between rival drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro on the weekend, officials said.

The death toll rose to 42 after an apparent suicide bomb attack against Iran's Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran, Press TV reported on Monday.

Human rights groups have blasted Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which includes a section that would introduce the death penalty for the offence of "aggravated homosexuality".

GIGN, National Gendarmerie Intervention Group, the French anti-terrorist force has offered India to provide special training to NSG commandos.

The US has begun to squeeze the funding and flow of money to terrorist organisations in the Af-Pak region including the Taliban, al Qaeda, the Haqqani network and Laskhar-e-Taiba, and keeping a tab on "hawala" transactions, a top Obama Administration official has said.

Cancer is diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled growth, which generally goes beyond the normal limits. Thwere may also be invasion or destruction of adjacent tissues and sometimes they spread to other parts of body via lymph or blood. Mostly cancers make a form of tumor but in case of leukemia, they don't.

Penelope Cruz has appeared at the premiere of her new film wearing a ring on her left hand, sparking a new round of speculation that she's engaged to boyfriend Javier Bardem.

Among the activists who scaled the roof of the British Parliament building on Sunday to protest the world's indifference to climate change was a 29-year-old Mumbai youth, Brikesh Singh.

Michael Jackson?s This Is It was launched online on Monday and is the first song to be released after his death.

A Soyuz anding module carrying Gennady Padalka (Russia), Michael Barratt (NASA) and Canadian space tourist Guy Laliberte have touched down Kazakh steppe.

A virus recently linked to prostate cancer is a new suspect in chronic fatigue syndrome. US scientists tested blood from 101 patients and found two-thirds carried it.

Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said on Saturday that India will come to Copenhagen in December as an ?interested party? and a ?deal maker, not a deal breaker?.

France's Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand appeared to have saved his job on Friday after an emotional television appearance in which he admitted paying for sex with men but angrily rejected paedophilia charges.

India, Oct. 9 -- 2008 The prize goes to: MARTTI AHTISAARI for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts. 2007 The prize goes to: INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE (IPCC) and ALBERT ARNOLD ( AL) GORE JR.

A French police union said on Thursday it will ask the Paris public prosecutor to open an investigation of Culture Minister Frederic Mitterand on possible charges of soliciting a minor.