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Amidst growing use of the Internet world-wide, publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) said the third edition may not be published in print hard copy form but only online. The first edition of the multi-volume Oxford English Dictionary was ...

Authorities in the Thai capital had to build an external lift and demolish two walls on Thursday to take one of the world's heaviest women to hospital after she was unable to get out of her own flat. Umnuayporn Tongprapai, ...

On the occasion of Mother Teresa’s birth centenary, comic book label Amar Chitra Katha has launched a special title, tracking the life and times of the nun of Albanian descent who later became an Indian citizen. This is the first ...

Upset over key development projects in his state being stalled, Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today to apprise him of the situation. Patnaik has hit out at Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh for his alleged ...

A discharged Israeli female soldier was condemned by Israeli and Palestinian authorities on Monday for posting pictures of herself on Facebook posing next to bound and blindfolded Palestinians. Former conscript Eden Abergil is seen in two pictures from her album ...

WikiLeaks spokesman Julian Assange on Thursday said his organisation is preparing to release the rest of the secret Afghan war documents it has on file. WikiLeaks already has published 77,000 classified US military reports covering the war in Afghanistan from ...

A page has been set up in the social network site facebook to reunite a thread bare teddy bear with its owner in Britain. The light brown stuffed teddy, who has black eyes, a pink nose and stripes across his ...

No more World Cup, no more octopus oracle. Paul, the octopus who became a pop culture sensation by correctly predicting the outcome of as many World Cup matches as he has legs — all seven of Germany's games plus the ...