Traffic signs warning Romanian drivers of ‘drunken’ pedestrians have been scrapped by road safety officials following ‘excessive’ media coverage.
Officials in Pecica, a village town about 13 miles from the Hungarian border in the country’s west, ordered the bright [...]
A 14-year-old girl was found gyrating until 3 am at a lap dancing club in Somerset, UK.
The schoolgirl guzzled 12 bottles of strong vodka alcopops between dances.
The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, donned a black basque, black stockings [...]
A new documentary has revealed that the Wembley Way, the road leading to the home of English football Wembley Stadium, was built by German prisoners of war (PoWs).
According to BBC Radio 4’s Document programme, when the stadium was selected to host the Olympic Games in 1948, [...]
Five-year-old British kid, Sahil Saeed, who was said to be abandoned by his kidnappers earlier today, was actually released following the payment of a hefty ransom.
Pakistan’s Punjab province Law Minister Rana Sanaullah claimed that Sahil was freed after a ransom was paid in a third country.
Sanaullah said [...]
Criticising the present Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) led government for not being able to break the deadlock over the Kashmir issue, senior Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Pakistan (JUI) leader Hafiz Hussain Ahmed has accused them of conspiring to divide [...]
Legendary actress Sophia Loren is playing the role of her mother in her TV biopic.
“La Mia Casa E Piena di Specchi” (My House Is Full of Mirrors), based on a book by the actress’s sister Maria Scicolone, has been divided into a two part series.
Giuseppe Tornatore’s Sicilian [...]
Men who go bald at an early age have less chances of suffering from prostate cancer, according to a new study.
An American team observed 2,000 men aged between 40 and 47, half of whom had prostate cancer.
It was learnt that those who had their hair thinned by [...]
Viewers of ‘This Morning’ were in for a saucy treat when they were shown how to spice up their romantic relationships with a demonstration of different sexual positions on daytime television.
On the show, presented by Holly Willoughby and Philip Schofield, couples clambered on to a bed [...]
Reports indicate that India has switched on its first public air purifier in the city of New Delhi as part of an experiment that could help other smog-choked cities in emerging countries.
According to a report in the Telegraph, the unit, which is [...]
An upset England mid-fielder David Beckham has vowed to bounce back from his Achilles injury, which has ruled him out of this year’s World Cup in South Africa.
“I am upset but want to thank everyone for their messages of support. I hope to [...]
Reports indicate that a US military-funded project is trying to use the memristor, the “missing link of electronics”, to make brain-like computers, which would bring neural computing closer to reality.
It seems the so-called memristor can behave uncannily like the junctions between neurons in the brain.
A memristor [...]
MId-fielder Paul Scholes believes Manchester United can win their remaining eight Premier League games and clinch an historic fourth consecutive title triumph.
United, who returned to the top of the table with Sunday’s 3-0 win over Fulham, are chasing a double record – [...]
It has emerged that a play that was first discovered nearly 300 years ago is based on lost manuscripts of William Shakespeare’s.
The play, titled ‘Double Falsehood’, had been written by Shakespeare and another dramatist, John Fletcher.
And though theatre impresario Lewis Theobald [...]
The British girl, who is facing jail time in Dubai over a kiss, has said that she hopes her ordeal ends soon.
Charlotte Adams, 25, told of her four-month ordeal waiting to hear if she and pal Ayman Najafi, 24, will be [...]
‘Iron Man’ star Gwyneth Paltrow is said to be eager to take part in Channel 4’s ‘Come Dine With Me’.
Paltrow, 37, is keen to take part in a star-studded episode of the programme, in which four contestants show their cooking skills with a series of [...]
Rock musician Courtney Love has revealed that the split between her and her daughter came about because of the teenager punching, biting and scratching her.
Love, 45, said her daughter, Frances Bean, from late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, was placed under the temporary guardianship of her paternal [...]
Music composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has revealed that his sex drive has been affected after prostate cancer treatment.
The 61-year-old ‘Love Never Dies’ composer, who has been married thrice, underwent a surgery to fight the disease.
“Sex drive does take a while to come back but, frankly, I’ve [...]
Lance Corporal Craig Lundberg was blinded by a grenade in Iraq but new technology has helped him to “see” with his tongue.
Lundberg, 24, who lost his sight when he was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade while serving in Basra in 2007, can read words, identify shapes and walk [...]
Ashley Cole asked estranged wife Cheryl to delay separation plans until the soccer World Cup, sources say.
The English footballer’s multiple affairs were exposed earlier this year.
Cole apparently asked the Girls Aloud singer to wait to split till he was back from [...]
Michael Jackson’s family is desperate to stop the syringe, used to inject drugs that killed the singer, from being auctioned, it has emerged.
Lawyers reportedly informed the King of Pop’s siblings Janet and Tito that an unnamed seller has put it up for sale.
It has been speculated that the needle may [...]
Michael Barrett, the man who taped sportscaster Erin Andrews in various stages of undress, has been jailed for two and a half years.
Using a modified peep-hole, Barrett had videotaped the ESPN reporter at a Tennessee hotel.
The divorced insurance executive, 48, accepted [...]
After sending data through wires and air, researchers have now successfully used the human body as a communication interface.
Researchers at Korea University in Seoul have transmitted data at a rate of 10 megabits per second through a person’s arm, between two electrodes placed on their [...]
New calculations have suggested that a hurtling star is on its path to enter our solar system in about 1.5 million years, scattering millions of comets into paths that cross Earth’s orbit.
According to a report in New Scientist, Vadim Bobylev of the Pulkovo Observatory in St Petersburg, Russia, modelled the paths of neighbouring [...]
New evidence indicates that signs of life on Mars might be all over the Red Planet in the form of sulphur, and the next Mars lander should be able to detect the proof.
No mission to Mars has ever found complex carbon-based molecules, from which life as we know it is built.
But sulphur [...]
Scientists have found that fertilizing the oceans with iron could spark the growth of toxic blooms, which comes in the way of the controversial idea of adding iron to the oceans to help suck up atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2).
According to a report in Nature News, the finding, from a team led by ecologist Charles [...]
Former ‘Friends’ star Jennifer Aniston has revealed that she fears tabloid gossips are destroying her career, as fans focus more on who she is dating rather than on the films she is working on.
Aniston, 41, who has had her romances with John Mayer, Vince Vaughn and ex-husband Brad Pitt flashed all over the [...]
Singer Jessica Simpson has revealed that her weight gain during her tour last year made her feel like a “public embarrassment”.
Simpson, 29, had appeared on tour looking tubby in high-waisted jeans.
“I had to get up on stage every night and know people were looking to see whether I was fat,” the Daily Star [...]
A survey has found that parents with twins are more likely to end up divorced, broke and out of work, even though they are better off, older and more likely to be married than those who have their babies one at a time.
The research on the chaos caused by multiple births, tracked 18,500 families, [...]
Scientists have said that by comparing the unique collection of bacteria found on a person’s hand to those recovered at a crime scene, microbes could act like fingerprints to nab the culprit.
Our fingers are home to a unique collection of bacteria that get left on surfaces we touch.
According to a report in New [...]
Prince William has shared his view on how important family time is, after a youngster approached him for help on getting away early from school on Fridays.
William, 27, gently informed Lana, a year six at Newnham Croft Primary School in Cambridgeshire, who had raised the issue, [...]
