A man who is going deaf can now 'hear' Wi-Fi wherever he walks. London-based science writer Frank Swain, 32, was first diagnosed with early onset hearing loss when he was in his 20s. In 2012, he was fitted with hearing a...

The White Widow Samantha Louise Lewthwaite, born and raised as a Christian, converted to become a Muslim at the age of 17 is one of the deadliest terrorist alive today. Media has called her the “The White Widow” after he...

The Preferred Destination for Assisted Suicide Whoever thought, the place which Bollywood movies serenaded romance, could ever be the suicide destination. Turns out, it is legal to do or get assisted suicide in Switzerla...

An Indian origin teacher in Britain has given birth to a baby boy inside a classroom. a teacher at the elementary school Manford Primary School went into labor in the school. She delivered the baby with the help of her c...

Facebook reveals secrets you haven’t shared The increasing amount of personal information that can been gleaned by computer programs that track how people use Facebook has been revealed by an extensive academic study. Su...

This is the third wave of test results received by the FSA, which has now received a total of 5,430 test results. Meanwhile, new tests conducted on beef retail products revealed no new cases of horsemeat adulteration, th...

A rare and candid account emerged from a scientist who had voluntarily worked in the sex industry during her graduate studies — not out of desperation but as a deliberate economic choice — offering a perspective that cha...

Eating junk food just three times a week may lead to asthma and eczema in children, scientists have found. The high saturated fat levels in food such as burgers lower children's immune systems, it is believed. A research...

When Charlie Bit My Finger — the 56-second home video in which a British toddler bites his older brother's finger, to the older boy's dramatically expressed indignation and the younger one's delighted amusement — surpass...

The latest James Bond movie, "Skyfall", has become the highest-grossing film in British box office history, its producers said on Wednesday. The 23rd episode of the spy series, starring Daniel Craig as Agent 007 for a th...

Last month German retailer Aldi posted ( The UK business made a profit after tax of £57.8 million in 2011, having made a loss of £56 million in the previous year. The privately owned chain opened 29 new stores last year...

So many Indians apply to study at London Metropolitan that a few years ago the university opened recruitment offices in Delhi and Chennai. But on Thursday both branches had been shut down. In the Delhi towerblock where t...

The Aakash tablet, developed through a partnership between the Indian government and the Canadian company DataWind and manufactured in India, was presented in 2011 and 2012 as a technological breakthrough that could tran...

The arrest of an Indian-origin student in the United Kingdom on charges of computer hacking was one of several cases in the early 2010s that illustrated both the growing sophistication of young hackers operating outside...

Nine men who ran a child sexual exploitation ring in Greater Manchester have been jailed. The men from Rochdale and Oldham, who exploited girls as young as 13 were given sentences ranging from four to 19 years. They were...

Britain's tightening of student visa requirements in 2011 — part of a broader effort by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government to reduce net migration — landed with particular force on the community of In...

The BBC's revelation in early 2011 that a small stretch of pavement outside its new Broadcasting House development in London had cost £1.6 million to lay prompted the kind of productive public outrage that accountability...

British student protest turned dramatically and unexpectedly violent in November 2010 when a march through London against the coalition government's proposed tripling of university tuition fees — from £3,290 to £9,000 pe...