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Freddie Mercury wrote some of his classic songs at his parents' London home Eighteen years after the death of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, the people of Feltham in west London are preparing to honour him with a commemorative...
• Swelling population 'risks demographic disaster' • Cynicism and disaffection among disturbing findings Pakistan faces a "demographic disaster" if its leaders fail to invest in a youth population that is disturbingly cynical...
Aamir Atlas Khan, Pakistan’s top ranked squash player, scored his biggest career scalp to date when he ousted world No 1 Gregory Gaultier in the second round of the Qatar Open. Leading from the front: Gregory Gaultier (right)...
Political parties representing minority Tamils and Muslims in Sri Lanka are holding talks in Switzerland, the first since the conflict ended in May. Sri Lanka's social welfare minister said they aim to find a shared position on...
BANGALORE (Reuters) - Playboy spent 56 years making sure that the world would know it by the sign of its bunny ears. Now that the company is up for sale, Playboy's iconic logo, not the magazine, might be what saves it.
New Delhi's 'tonga', the romantic horse-drawn carriages popularised during the British Raj and beloved by Indian wedding couples, are to be phased out of use. By Dean Nelson in New Delhi Councillors in the Indian capital have...
This means another boat ride – but this time it is a car ferry, so I have a reasonable hope of arriving alive. And we do, driving off the ferry into an unpromising industrial area – a bit like the Isle of Dogs with palm trees....
This sporting feel-good yarn from Sri Lanka makes for a winning night out “Slumdog Handball”? Uberto Pasolini’s feel-good tale of a Sri Lankan ruse to migrate into Bavaria -- by signing up for a sport they’ve never heard of -...
Senior Foreign Office officials have claimed more than £90,000 in taxpayer-funded expenses in just three months. Sir Peter Ricketts, the permanent secretary, claimed almost £20,000 including more than £11,000 on a...
