Everything you need to know about Himmer: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Himmer: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Ankara, May 12 (IANS/RIA Novosti) As many as 40 people were killed and over 100 injured, in two blasts that occurred a Turkish town of Reyhanli, near Syrian border Saturday, the government said.
Ankara, May 12 (IANS/RIA Novosti) At least 40 people were killed and over 100 injured, 29 of them seriously, in two blasts that occurred in a Turkish town of Reyhanli, near Syrian border Saturday, the government said.
Moscow, May 9 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A couple, living in a barrel-shaped fuel tank in a Russian city, have been stripped of the parental rights to their 10-month-old child.
Washington, May 7 (ANI): Even short-term food deprivation not only increases overall grocery shopping, but leads shoppers to buy 31 percent more high calorie foods, a new Cornell study has revealed.
Moscow, April 28 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The former head of the ski jump construction project for next year's Winter Olympics in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi said he has been poisoned with mercury.
Rome, April 24 (IANS/AKI) More than half of households in recession-hit Italy are regularly buying food at discount stores and slashing their medical expenses, the central statistics office Istat said.
London, Apr 23 (ANI): Simon Cowell is trying to preserve his looks by kicking his 40-a-day habit and puffing on vaporising ciggies instead.
Beijing, Apr. 21 (Xinhua-ANI): Italian President Giorgio Napolitano on Saturday won election for a second mandate in a move to solve Italy's political impasse.
Rome, April 16 (IANS/AKI) Rome's Mayor Gianni Alemanno has launched legal proceedings against an Italian investigative TV show that claimed the mafia and crime gangs had infiltrated contracts for electric bus services and a new metro line in the capital.
London, Apr 12 (ANI): Philips has unveiled an LED lamp that it describes as 'the world's most energy-efficient'.
London, April 10 (IANS) Nearly 700 jobs could be cut at a supermarket chain in Britain as it replaces manual cash counting by machines, BBC reported.
London, April 9 (IANS) The funeral of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher will be held in London April 17, the office of Prime Minister David Cameron said Tuesday.
Los Angeles, April 6 (IANS) Hollywood actress Jessica Alba says she will only accept roles which are worth leaving her kids alone for. The 31-year-old admits she hates being away from her children.
Kuala Lumpur, April 4 (IANS) A 94-year-old woman Thursday became the first person to request for a nomination form in Malaysia's Terengganu state to run for parliament for a second time.
Los Angeles, March 27 (IANS) Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds is still keen to work in "Deadpool".
Yangon, March 26 (IANS) The death toll in a communal riot in Myanmar has risen to 40, according to an official media report Tuesday.
London, Mar 25 (ANI): A golden retriever has become a real ace in changing baby nappies by helping his disabled master in the task.
London, March 24 (ANI): Beyonce's father Mathew Knowles has opened up about his bitter rift with his famous daughter, admitting he is devastated at being pushed out of her life.
Yangon, March 22 (IANS) A state of emergency was declared Friday in four townships of Meikhtila district in northern Myanmar as 10 people were killed and 45 others injured in riots that began Wednesday, media reports said.
Washington, March 22 (ANI): Kim Kardashian reportedly confessed that she was genuinely in love with Kris Humphries when they tied the knot as she sat through a secret nine-hour divorce deposition at her lawyer Laura Wasser's office on Tuesday.
Washington, Mar 19 (ANI): Europe's biggest bank by market value HSBC is gearing up for thousands more job cuts, according to a report.
London, Mar. 16 (ANI): Britney Spears and her rumoured new boyfriend, David Lucardo, were spotted heading to a tanning salon and later enjoying Mexican food for lunch on Thursday.
Washington, March 15 (ANI): Women who work the night shift may have an increased risk of ovarian cancer, new research has warned.
Los Angeles, March 15 (IANS/EFE) First lady Michelle Obama will appear on the cover of Vogue's April edition, marking the second time she has graced the cover of the fashion magazine, media reports said.
Los Angeles, March 13 (IANS) Actor Nicolas Cage regrets turning down a chance to voice the friendly green character Shrek for the 2001 film.
Beijing, March 11 (Xinhua-ANI): Jonathan Lu Zhaoxi, executive vice president of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group will become the company's CEO, replacing Jack Ma, it was announced Monday.
Washington, Mar 11 (ANI): Britain, Italy and Greece have confirmed that hostages from their countries were among seven construction workers reported killed in Nigeria over the weekend.
London, Mar. 10 (ANI): Thirty three percent of workers will come to office even if they are suffering from cold, a survey has revealed.
Minsk, March 8 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko are travelling to Caracas to attend the funeral of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, state television reported.
Tehran, March 6 (Xinhua-ANI): The Iranian government declared a day of mourning on Wednesday following the death of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, local media reported.
London, Mar 1 (IANS/EFE) The next James Bond novel, which will be published in September, has the world's most famous secret agent living in London's Chelsea section at the age of 45, writer William Boyd said.
Washington, Feb. 28 (ANI): 10 percent of people have confessed that they have actually made love at their work place, a survey has revealed.
London, Feb 27 (ANI): Vatican officials have said that Pope Benedict XVI will be known as 'pope emeritus' and will retain the honorific 'His Holiness' after he steps down on Thursday.
London, Feb. 24 (ANI): , Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the most senior Catholic clergyman in Britain to the Vatican has been reportedly involved in inappropriate behaviour stretching back 30 years, three priests and a former priest in Scotland have reported.
Washington, Feb. 22 (ANI): President Barack Obama has said he still has not made up his mind about where his presidential library will be located.
Tokyo, Feb 22 (IANS/EFE) Japan Thursday executed three inmates who had been sentenced to death, marking the first executions since conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office in December, the Justice Ministry said.
Sydney, Feb 22 (ANI): Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr has dropped his decision to raise the case of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in discussions with Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt next week.
London, Feb 15 (ANI): Piers Morgan believes that he is now a pin-up for both men and women, as he even gets underwear sent to him in the post.
Paris, Feb 14 (IANS) French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has said the government will miss the target of trimming public deficit to three percent of the national output in 2013.
London, Feb 13 (ANI): Its official, gifting cooking and cleaning objects as Valentine's Day gifts are the worst.
Moscow, Feb 12 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A total of 424 Moscow couples intend to tie the knot on Valentine's Day, the civil registry office said.
Panaji, Feb 6 (IANS) Over 12 percent of Goa's population will come under the Lokayukta scanner, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said Wednesday.
Abu Dhabi, Feb 6 (IANS/WAM) Top officials from the UAE have held talks with the envoys of Malaysia and Senegal on improving bilateral relations.
London, Feb 6 (IANS) A nine-year-old girl has given birth to a daughter in Mexico, a media report said Wednesday.
Wellington, Feb 6(ANI): Banned cyclist Lance Armstrong won't be prosecuted even after he admitted to doping recently in a chat show with Oprah Winfrey, according to Andre Birotte, the US attorney based in Los Angeles, who oversaw the federal investigation.
London, Feb 5 (ANI): Skyfall has been named film of the year at the London Evening Standard awards.
Washington, Feb. 5 (ANI): Former US president Bill Clinton has endorsed a woman for president - and it's not his wife.
London, Feb. 5 (ANI): Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari have said they will work towards a peace deal for Afghanistan within six months.
Melbourne, Feb. 3 (ANI): The Duchess of Cambridge, whose dresses and hair style is copied by women around the world, now has her nose becoming most desirable among the ladies opting for plastic surgery.
Washington, Jan 31 (IANS) A county employee was shot and injured by two unidentified men Thursday outside a court building in the US state of Texas, Xinhua reported.
London, Jan 30 (ANI): The Burmese authorities have lifted a 25-year-old ban on public gatherings of more than five people.
Melbourne, Jan 29 (ANI): A Japanese cafe in Shibuya, Tokyo is offering its female customers the services of a 3D scanner, by carving their face on chocolate truffles.
Chennai, Jan 24 (IANS) Telugu actor 'Allari' Naresh, who is happy with the way his career is shaping up, says success and failure are part and parcel of life and, therefore, need to treated on par.
Moscow, Jan 22 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A Russian man working in a private company hijacked a company bus because he had no money to pay for his fare to go home, the interior ministry said.
Washington, Jan 22 (IANS/EFE) Beyonce sang the US national anthem to conclude President Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony as he began his second term in office.
London, Jan. 21 (ANI): Venezuelan Vice-President Nicolas Maduro has said President Hugo Chavez is 'gaining strength' following complications after cancer surgery.
Los Angeles, Jan 19 (IANS) Singer-actress Selena Gomez says she doesn't pay attention to any speculation about her love life.
Panaji, Jan 10 (IANS) Casinos in Goa will now be monitored. And for gamblers, entering licenced gambling hubs would be akin to walking into an income tax office.
Moscow, Jan 9 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A Dutch artist has made a bid to register the name "Allah" as a trademark, saying it is an "incredibly beautiful name".
Los Angeles, Jan 8 (IANS) Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger says he loves playing funny roles and thinks he is gifted with comic timing.
Los Angeles, Jan 6 (IANS) James Bond will be honoured at the Oscars ceremony following the success of "Skyfall", the latest film in the franchise.
Washington, Jan 5 (IANS) Houston, the fourth-largest city in the US, has topped a list of places that saw the maximum number of burglaries in the country, Xinhua reported.
London, Jan 1 (ANI): Smelly dogs are breaking up couples and driving friends away, a new survey has revealed.
London, Jan 1 (ANI): Smelly dogs are breaking up couples and driving friends away, a new survey has revealed.
Harare, Dec. 30 (ANI): The head of Zimbabwe's human rights commission, who was appointed to help curb rights violations, has resigned citing inhibiting laws and lack of resources.
London, Dec. 28 (ANI): The new government in Japan has announced it will review planned nuclear power phase-out proposed by the previous administration.
Beijing, Dec 24 (IANS) Chinese police have rescued 89 children from traffickers, the government said Monday.
Qala i Naw (Afghanistan), Dec 24 (IANS/EFE) Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said here during an unannounced trip to Afghanistan that Spain's economy will improve next year and start growing again in 2014.
London, Dec 19 (ANI): Social networking giant Facebook has been asked by a German data protection body to end its policy of making members use their real names.
San Juan, Dec 17 (IANS/EFE) Puerto Rican urban music band Calle 13 performed at Isla Grande Pier in their first concert in San Juan after a three-year absence.
Washington, Dec 14 (IANS/RIA Novosti) It's not all that uncommon for someone to change their last name, perhaps when they get married, or become a famous movie star. But one US entrepreneur had a different reason to change his name.
Washington, Dec 9(ANI): Victoria Beckham loves to have a lot of fun in her private time and has a secret wild side, says her hairdresser Ken Paves.
Rome, Dec 9 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, leader of the centre-right People of Freedom (PDL) party, said Saturday that he would run for office again next year.
Moscow, Dec 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Twenty-one customs officers at a Lithuanian customs checkpoint have been detained on suspicion of corruption and abuse of office, the Customs Department said.
London, Dec 4 (IANS) In a bid to reduce their office commutation bills, some people in Britain are sleeping in their cars overnight than driving back home from work every day, The Sun reported.
London, Dec 01(ANI): The case against a US Open tennis judge, Lois Goodman, accused of beating her husband to death with a mug has been dismissed by the court.
Washington, November 27 (ANI): People often do not recall things they have seen - or at least walked by - hundreds of times, a new UCLA psychology study has revealed.
London, Nov. 27 (ANI): A man from Florida choked to death after he ate dozens of live cockroaches in a contest to win a python, an autopsy has revealed.
Jerusalem, Nov. 26 (Xinhua-ANI): Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced Monday morning that he will quit politics after the Jan. 22 national elections.
London, Nov 26 (IANS) Singer Ronnie Wood is likely to marry fiancee Sally Humphreys in a hotel here.
Melbourne, Nov. 21 (ANI): A taxi driver from Singapore returned 865,000 dollars to a Thai couple who had left the money in his cab.
Melbourne, Nov. 21 (ANI): A taxi driver from Singapore returned 865,000 dollars to a Thai couple who had left the money in his cab.
Yangon, Nov 19 (IANS) Over 500 prisoners, including 31 foreigners, have been released from jails in Myanmar after they were granted amnesty by President U Thein Sein, a state TV report said.
Washington, Nov. 15 (ANI): The FBI agent who initially started the investigation that ensnared former CIA Director David Petraeus, but was ordered to stay away from the case because of his alleged infatuation with a woman who prompted the inquiry, has been identified as a veteran terrorism investigator, Frederick W Humphries II.
Madrid, Nov 15 (IANS/EFE) Spain's latest move to shore up its ailing financial sector was approved Wednesday by a wide margin in the Senate.
Washington, Nov 13 (IANS) US First Lady Michelle Obama loves watching period drama "Downton Abbey" so much that she has reportedly requested ITV chiefs to send over the third series to her ahead of its official US launch date.
Bhubaneswar, Nov 12 (IANS) Odisha Monday announced financial assistance for its elderly, widows and disabled people to enable them to buy winter clothes as the mercury started dropping in some parts of the state.
Moscow, Nov 12 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A Jordanian court has sentenced the kingdom's former intelligence chief to 13 years in prison for corruption.
London, Nov 8 (ANI): Leonardo DiCaprio has reportedly put up his bachelor pad on the market for a whopping 14.4 million dollars.
Los Angeles, Nov 8 (IANS) Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has put his Malibu mansion on sale for 14.4 million pounds.
Washington, Nov 7 (ANI): US President Barack Obama has said that he had both concession and victory speeches prepared for election night.
Washington, Nov 6 (ANI): Halle Berry has revealed that she cut her hair short in order to catch attention of casting directors.
London, Nov. 4 (ANI): Italian comedian turned politician Beppe Grillo, whose web-based democracy and anti-corruption campaigning led Italy by storm, has been dragged into a row after he was accused of being a "medieval" sexist.
Dubai, Nov 2 (IANS/WAM) The UAE finance ministry has urged its staff to use the public transport system for travelling to office in a bid to promote eco-friendly practices.
Milan, Oct 28 (IANS) AC Milan president Silvio Berlusconi admitted that his football club "needs to be looked after at the moment", local media reported.
Sydney, Oct. 28 (ANI): Kevin Rudd has penned down his own account about the 'betrayal' of being dumped as Australian prime minister and his secret offer to deliver Julia Gillard the leadership.
Washington, Oct. 26 (ANI): President Barack Obama has said that he did not expect to lose the presidential election to Republican rival Mitt Romney and hadn't given the possibility any thought till now.
Caracas, Oct 20 (IANS/EFE) Venezuela is considering investments of up to $300 million for the purchase of long-range aircraft to begin intercontinental flights to "allied" countries like China and Russia, a minister said.
Wellington, October 17 (ANI): A feline feud has exploded in British politics after a picture of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's cat Freya emerged dealing with David Cameron's cat Larry with a mean left hook.
