A LUCKY property swap and a frenzy of building propelled a 19-year-old Norwegian student to the top of board game fame at the Monopoly World…
ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found five well-preserved Roman shipwrecks deep under the sea off a small Mediterranean island, with their cargo of vases, pots and other objects…
THE Disney movie “G-Force” shows a squad of specially trained, computer-generated guinea pig spies coming to the world’s rescue. After the movie comes out, though,…
THE United States and India said yesterday that they had agreed on a defence pact that takes a major step toward allowing the sale of…
DEFIANTLY low-tech yet accurate to the second, Big Ben is having its 150th birthday tomorrow, its Victorian chimes carrying the sound of Britain into the…
THE first Broadway revival of “Bye Bye Birdie” has found a home. The Roundabout Theatre Company says it will open the musical on October 15…
The New York Times Co has threatened to shut The Boston Globe unless the newspaper’s unions quickly agree to US$20 million in concessions, the Globe…
GOOGLE Inc has launched its controversial street-level photo maps in 25 cities in Britain, with new technology to address people’s fears of being captured in…
HILLARY Clinton, starting her first foreign excursion as United States Secretary of State with a week-long trip to Asia, said yesterday the US-Japan alliance remains…