Fame is like summer breeze: Julia Roberts

Last Updated: Saturday, September 14, 2013, 08:27

Actress Julia Roberts says fame is a summer breeze but family is a bedrock.

Out on a limb: Japan upset by French Fukushima cartoon

Last Updated: Thursday, September 12, 2013, 10:08

Japan is to formally complain about a cartoon that appeared in a French weekly newspaper showing sumo wrestlers with extra limbs in front of the Fukushima nuclear plant.

Ashley Greene goes topless on film set

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 11, 2013, 16:19

‘Twilight’ star Ashley Greene turned up the heat on the set of her upcoming film ‘Staten Island Summer’ as she went topless for a sunbathing scene.

`China capable of tackling risks confronting its economy`

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 22:13

China is capable of tackling various risks confronting its economy with courage and wisdom to realise sustainable, healthy development in the long term, Premier Li Keqiang said.

Humpback whales spend winter in Antarctica

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 15:39

Researchers have found that not all Southern Hemisphere humpback whales migrate towards the equator at the end of the Antarctic summer.

Istanbul`s Olympic bid rejection unfair: Turkish PM

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 14:30

Choosing Tokyo instead of Istanbul to host the 2020 Olympic Games was unfair. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.

IOC members gear up to elect new president

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 11:15

Six men will wake up on Tuesday with hopes of ending the day as the most powerful man in sport by being elected International Olympic Committee (IOC) President and succeeding Jacques Rogge.

Harper Beckham in focus at mother`s show

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 09:17

Little Harper Beckham took centrestage at her mother Victoria Beckham`s spring-summer 2014 show at the New York Fashion Week.

Japan begins preparations for 2020 Olympics

Last Updated: Monday, September 9, 2013, 20:36

Preparations for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics are already underway with Japan sizing up plans to ready its sporting facilities and urban infrastructure, Japanese officials said Monday.

Modernisation put wrestling back in Olympics, says world body

Last Updated: Monday, September 9, 2013, 13:27

The world wrestling federation chief said "modernisation" helped the sport get reinstated in the 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games.

Tokyo 2020 an endorsement of Asian dynamism

Last Updated: Monday, September 9, 2013, 11:13

The decision to award Tokyo the 2020 Olympic Games was a triumph of business sense as much as common sense, and a unequivocal endorsement of Asia`s dynamic economies.

IOC members air Rio concerns publicly for first time

Last Updated: Monday, September 9, 2013, 09:02

Rio`s preparations for the 2016 Summer Olympics came under fire from International Olympic Committee (IOC) members for the first time in public in Buenos Aires on Sunday.