MUMBAI: India’s film industry revenues declined by nearly 14 percent last year, hit by a damaging producers’ strike, swine flu fears and poor quality content, according to a study published... (more...)

LONDON: Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet and her director husband Sam Mendes have separated, lawyers for the British couple said Monday. “Kate and Sam are saddened to announce they seperated earlier... (more...)

TOKYO: Japanese police have arrested a nurse they accuse of deliberately breaking an elderly patient’s ribs because she was stressed, and say she is a suspect in five similar cases.  Saori Hamuro,... (more...)

ISLAMABAD: An average woman will spend $13,000 on makeup during her lifetime, a new survey has found. According to the study, a woman spends about $180 every 12 months on cosmetics for an average 65-year... (more...)

VALPARAISO: A powerful 7.2 magnitude aftershock and four smaller ones rocked central Chile Thursday, prompting a tsunami warning minutes before Sebastian Pinera was sworn in as the new president. The quake,... (more...)

FRANKFURT: Volkswagen’s luxury brand Audi is racing ahead of VW’s other makes and generated more than 85 percent of total operating profit in 2009, according to group figures released on Thursday. Audi’s... (more...)

BEIJING: Google said Thursday that it was in talks with China on the future of the US Internet giant in the Asian nation, after the firm threatened to leave over cyberattacks and state web censorship.... (more...)

BEIJING: At least 11 tigers have diedof hunger and malnutrition in a Chinese zoo so far this year, the Year of the Tiger in the lunar calendar, local media reported on Thursday. China’s wild tiger... (more...)