Reliance Big Entertainment, the media and entertainment arm of the $100 billion Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, Sunday announced a major foray into Hollywood by providing development funds to Brad Pitt, Tom Hanks and six other superstars in the...

The Dalai Lama called Sunday for greater tolerance between the world's major...

Reliance Big Entertainment, the media and entertainment arm of the $100 billion Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, Sunday announced a major foray into Hollywood and will provide development funds to eight leading international superstars in the...

First round leader Jeev Milkha Singh faltered for the second day in succession as he shot a three-over 75 in the third round and slipped down further to 36th at the Irish Open...

Departing Barcelona coach Frank Rijkaard finally bid goodbye Saturday with a handsome 5-3 romp away to a long-relegated bottom team...

Rafael Nadal retained his second place in the men's tennis rankings Saturday when he outlasted challenger Novak Djokovic 7-5, 2-6, 6-2 in the Hamburg Masters...

British singer Sir Cliff Richard regrets not taking up the opportunity to meet legendary singer Elvis Presley because he was too...

London, May 18, (DPA) Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp spoke of a 'great day' at the end of 'a difficult year' after his side beat Cardiff City to win the FA Cup and secure UEFA Cup qualification...

Two executives of defence company BAE Systems have been briefly detained when they landed in the US on business. Chief executive Mike Turner and an unnamed senior colleague were spoken to when...

LONDON (Reuters) - If you are a soccer fan going to watch Euro 2008 it could be worth having a vaccination to prevent catching a little known, but potentially fatal illness that is spread by ticks, a...

The Dalai Lama, who is in Germany for five days, called Sunday for religious tolerance as controversy simmers in Berlin over the planned meeting between the Buddhist leader and a member of Chancellor...

Harrison Ford, 65, has made light of his age while promoting the film "You don't go into any project, whether it's a further adventure like the Indiana Jones films or its something brand new out...

PARIS - The French government is sticking to its forecast for 2008 economic growth of between 1.7 and 2 percent, Public Accounts Minister Eric Woerth said in a newspaper interview published on...

Q: I've been to Western/Eastern Europe a few times. Will take a two-month, very flexible trip from Estonia to Ukraine (in the fall, meandering generally from north to south as winter approaches....

LONDON (Dow Jones)--The economies of central and south-eastern Europe will slow more sharply than previously expected this year as export growth moderates and rising food and energy prices eat into...

Mikhail Brin decided to study mathematics instead, and was offered a place although the entry exams for Jews were sat separately, in rooms that were notoriously known as "the gas chambers." In 1970,...

New Jersey is looking to Europe for business.Global Enterprise Network will hold a daylong conference Wednesday aimed at helping businesses break into the European market, the state's largest trading...

Uncapped St Etienne striker Bafetimbi Gomis has been named in France's 30-man provisional squad for next month's European Championships, but there is no place for David Trezeguet. Arsenal defenders...

SEATTLE, May -- Windstar Cruises, which operates a three-ship fleet of luxury yachts that explore hidden harbors and secluded coves of the world's most treasured destinations, offers guests the...

Britain is the focal point for Islamic terrorism across Europe, and its controversial military campaigns overseas are putting the entire continent at risk, a disturbing new report has warned. ...

CompulsiveTraveler.tv has been selected by the European Travel Commission as the ideal site to host its first-ever "My Favorite European Video" contest. New York, NY...

Socialists could play pivotal role But Milosevic's Socialist Party -- itself split between pragmatists and hard-liners -- emerged as the new kingmaker after Sunday's vote. One scenario making the...

Actress Sharon Stone and Sex-in-the-City star Kim Cattrall joined several thousand "aliens" clad in feather boas and tight leather pants who descended on Vienna Saturday night for the AIDS charity...

Koor has secured a non-recourse credit line from Goldman Sachs, which, at Goldman Sachs' request, is being provided by way of financial derivatives. The non-recourse credit line completes the...

Sharm Al Shaikh: Tecom Investments, the asset manager controlled by His Highness Shaikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, plans to buy...

Around €1m has been stolen from 300 bank accounts in one of the largest incidents of bank card fraud ever in Ireland.It is understood bank cards were cloned at points of sale in shops and...

French fishermen kept up their blockade at ports along France's western coast on Saturday, in protest at the rising cost of diesel fuel, while port workers went on their strikes. Fishermen's...

Finance ministers, economists and policy makers from the European Union member countries have attended the Brussels Economic Forum. The two-day forum is to celebrate ten years of the European...

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Injured team-mate Unbeaten all season in the league, Anorthosis ralllied but could not find a way past goalkeeper Jane Nikoloski while Paulo Costa's late free-kick sailed inches wide. "It's a great...

.. Boeing delivers 300th Jetliner to GECAS .. Samskip adds Greece to its pan-European multimodal network .. Evergreen/COSCON upgrade its China/Persian Gulf service .. IRU World Congress gathers...

French youth continue to show their potential for mobilising against education reforms. This time it is the turn of high school students, who, during the last weeks, have been on the streets against...

International Women's Cricket Council Trophy and they won four out of their five matches there. Their last international outing was the World Cup 2005 in South Africa. Netherlands are better prepared...

If anyone was going to write his name into the soccer history books on Saturday it was Nwankwo Kanu, and the Nigerian international did just that. He scored the only goal as Portsmouth defeated...

LONDON: Envoys from around 100 countries are to gather in Dublin on Monday for a 12-day conference aimed at clinching an international treaty banning cluster munitions. The negotiations should...

GULF Finance House driver Hamad Al Fardan grabbed pole position in both qualifiers of the first round of the Austrian Formula Three Championship being held at Most Circuit in the Czech Republic. ...

MADRID, Spain -- Spanish police have arrested five young computer hackers who allegedly disabled Internet pages run by government agencies in the U.S., Latin America and Asia, authorities said...

(BRUSSELS) - The European Commission will unveil Tuesday a proposed shake-up of the EU's common agriculture policy to lift output in the face of a food crisis, with Britain and France gearing up for...

Russia's win was less dramatic, cruising to a 4-0 victory over Finland. Sunday's final will be the first time the two ice hockey powers have met for the gold medal at the worlds. Canada's victory...

plan to begin operation by 2011, The Nikkei business daily said. The solar power plants will have a combined output capacity of more than 160 megawatts which will be one of the world's largest...

It's enough. The cardboard box, wrapped with a red piece of paper on which the Chinese characters DONATION were printed, was too full to take any envelopes that were piled beside it and contained all...

Twenty-three young Turks have been presented with gold awards for their participation in the Youth Award Association program. The gold awards honored their completion of activities in fields such as...

Mor ve Ötesi, one of the most successful rock bands in Turkey, will represent Turkey at the Eurovision Song Contest this year and it is expecting to come first. Moreover, this contest will be the...

ISTANBUL / ANKARA - BloombergThree Turkish banks posted their quarterly earnings Friday. While Yapı Kredi, a Turkish bank that is co-owned by Italy's UniCredit SpA, managed to more than double its...

The story of Bice Bice's owner, Beatrice, was the oldest daughter of a family with 10 children. With such a big family, she has been cooking dishes all of her life. When she got married, she and her...

How secular Turkey should be: It is not only energy. It is not only rising energy prices, rising energy demand, highlighting energy straits and their security. It is not only helping the delayed...

Wittenberg, Germany - The Elbe Valley of Germany is a long, long way from Russia, but with a few deft changes, it feels uncannily like the real thing on a spring morning to Maxime Mardoukhaev as...

Turkish-Bulgarian joint military exercise Turkish and Bulgarian land forces conducted a military exercise on the border of the two countries from Monday to Thursday. The exercise was aimed to boost...

While lauding Denmark&#39s efforts to combat torture, an independent United Nations human rights expert who just visited the country said the country still has room for progress. In a statement...

ISTANBUL - Turkish Daily News The (outlawed) Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) presence at the Turkish-Iraqi border is ending, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told private CNN-Türk...