Category: Feature

The Internet has become a victim of its own success – its size and scope makes further development very difficult, holding back innovation.

A team of researchers are leading a ground-breaking study, which challenges the notion of the Renaissance as an era dominated by secular thinking.

The head of Switzerland’s banking regulatory body has issued a last-minute plea for Swiss banks to participate in a United States programme to reveal undeclared assets from American clients. But a prominent lawyer says many may not sign up.

Mention vuvuzela to soccer fans, and they may cringe.

Maldives finally managed to complete its presidential elections when last week Abdulla Yameen Gayoom, the half-brother of the country’s former strongman, defeated former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed, securing 51.3 per cent of the popular vote in a bitterly fought election.

What happens when you change a country’s name? Can you erase an unwanted past? Is changing the name a new beginning? Do the people in that country and their memories assume a new form? Perhaps that was what the junta…

Benedict XVI shocked the world in February when he became the first pope to resign in almost 600 years.

Sony’s PlayStation 4 was launched in the UK at midnight, two weeks after its US debut.

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and US President Barack Obama held talks on Wednesday by phone on the situation in the region and major issues of mutual concern, according to the Saudi Press Agency.

Mohammed Ayoob writes: The impact of the Iran nuclear deal is unlikely to be limited to the nuclear proliferation arena.

The election results are set to change the power equations.

An OIC (Organization of Islamic Countries) delegation, which included foreign ministers and senior officials from its member states Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Djibouti, and Bangladesh recently visited Myanmar.

The tomato is much loved by Europeans – it forms the basis of many recipes, whether fresh or tinned. But what happens to tomato by-product waste?

People generally believed that the Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M) would be weakened electorally due to the split in the party in June 2012, but no one predicted a rout.

Church leaders of independent Catholic communities from Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe have spent the last week in Rome with Pope Francis and Vatican officials discussing the lives of their Church including a subject of high importance to…

Iran and six world powers agreed Sunday to a deal that limits its nuclear programme, achieving the first diplomatic breakthrough since Tehran’s nuclear activities came to light 10 years ago.

The United States has voiced its “strong concern” to China over threats from Beijing to enforce its claims to a set of disputed Pacific islands controlled by Japan but claimed by the People’s Republic.

Agartala: Three tribal militants, who had fled from their hideout in southeastern Bangladesh along with their families, surrendered to security forces in Tripura, police said here Thursday.

Unarguably, Mahatma Gandhi remembered as the “Father of the Nation” took many democratic steps to reach out to the Indian masses and identified himself with them.