A row has started between India and Albania over where Mother Teresa’s remains should be buried. Albania demanded the return of the last remains of the Nobel Laureate which India rejected saying “Mother Teresa was an Indian citizen and she is...

A new controversy has risen in the fashion world after the popular German magazine, Brigitte, said that it’ll remove thin models from its pages in favor of ‘real women’. Jumping in the fray, Karl Lagerfeld, the German fashion designer, has...

French Govt. is considering to pay students if they maintain good attendance records and reach performance targets agreed upon with their teachers, reward payments will be added to their class account. The government’s objective is simple:...

US President Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009. Is he a worthy winner? The Nobel Committee hailed Obama’s extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples. Citing his work to rid the...

Egyptian conservatives condemn the artificial virginity hymen kit as technology that will promote promiscuity in a culture that forbids premarital sex. Protests are arising in a nation that over the last 40 years has gone from miniskirts and...

A new advertisement program is launched in UK. This program is aimed at turning young people away from knife crime. In this campaign, posters showing youngsters behind bars alongside the slogan ‘Carry a Knife and Lose Your Life’ will be displayed...

The US commander in Afghanistan today gave his full backing to attempts to reintegrate Taleban members into the rest of the population. General Stanley McChrystal said that 50 to 80 per cent of the Taleban would probably stop fighting if they were...

South Africa’s health ministry has proposed a plan to make HIV test compulsory. The Ministry believes that the system would be a ‘major onslaught’ in the battle against AIDS in South Africa, which has the largest number of HIV sufferers...

Economic crisis has wider impact than one can think of. Everyone takes it as a bane but it’s a boon too, though fewer the cases may be. Recession has led to the fall in birth rates in US by 2% in 2008; the biggest drop in nearly four decades. A new...

In France, a new debate has started on the airbrushed images in newspapers, magazines and other advertisements. French MPs are demanding a new law having health warning bold imprinted on published images: digitally enhanced. This is meant to protect...