London, Nov 21 (ANI): Winston Churchill's cigar smoked by him at the 1943 Casablanca conference has become a part of the BBC's Antiques Roadshow. The 33-year-old Christian Williams from Horncastle, Lincs, inherited the ...

London, Nov.14 (ANI): A crowded meeting organised by the National Council of British Indians in a packed Committee Room of the House Commons paid tribute to thousands of Indian soldiers killed and ...

Washington, Nov 13 (ANI): People who are entering their 60s may have far more disabilities today than their counterparts did in previous generations, according to a new University of California, Los Angeles ...

Tokyo, Nov 12 (DPA) Thousands of Japanese Thursday congratulated Emperor Akihito on the 20th anniversary of his accession to the throne. At an official ceremony in Tokyo's National Theatre, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama ...

New York City, Nov 11 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The Veterans Day Parade in New York City is going to be an elaborate affair, with a 21-gun salute and a military flyover. The famed ...

New York, Nov 10 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Here is a glimpse of some of the Veteran Day’s activities that will be held to honor the fallen soldiers. The Northern Arizona Veterans Affairs ...

Tokyo, Nov 10 (DPA) US President Barack Obama said he wants to visit the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were destroyed by US nuclear bombs at the end of ...

New York, Nov 9 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Veterans Day is an annual American holiday with the aim of honoring its military veterans and the sacrifice that they selflessly did for their country so ...

Berlin, Nov 9 (DPA) German Chancellor Angela Merkel Monday retraced the steps she took after the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, as international leaders gathered in Berlin to ...

Tokyo, Nov 9 (DPA) Tokyo is planning to apply to host the 2020 Olympics, the city's governor Shintaro Ishihara said Monday. Japan's capital applied for the 2016 games but lost out to ...

By Arun Kumar Washington, Nov 7 (IANS) With new players like India and Brazil taking a seat at the table of global influence, the international system that emerged at the end of ...

By Ranjan Bhaduri Nov. 1, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The "Ghost Hunters" Halloween special has been put under way and the results are out. With a live broadcast, as a special treat for its viewers, ...

PEARL HARBOR Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 9:00 PM The classic story of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is told through the eyes of two boyhood friends, now serving as officers in the ...

Washington, October 29 (ANI): A group of scientists working in the Kuril Islands off the east coast of Russia has documented for the first time the scope of tsunami-caused erosion and found ...

By Shreeraj Gudi New Delhi, Oct 26 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday said the younger generation should follow and emulate the brave deeds of the armed forces. Addressing a civic reception ...

London, Oct. 25 (ANI): Queen Elizabeth is reportedly furious at fascist British National Party leader Nick Griffin for "disgracing" former Prime Minister Winston Churchill's name to boost his party's racist image. "The ...

Jammu, Oct 24 (IANS) Soldiers of the Indian Army are more vulnerable to tropical diseases because of their frequent movement from one place to another, medical experts said Saturday. New medicines have ...

New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) There should be "something like a a global Marshall Plan" to spread green technologies in the developing world, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said here Friday as the ...

New Jersey, Oct 21 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The World War II veteran, Howard Unruh, best known as the mass murderer of 13 people in a shooting rampage in Camden, New Jersey died ...

New Jersey, Oct 20 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Howard Unruh, the mass murderer of a shooting rampage in Camden, New Jersey died on Monday. He died in a New Jersey prison hospital. He ...

By Meena Kar, Trenton, N.J. October 20, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The infamous murderer who had killed thirteen individuals of Camden in 1949 died on Monday, October 19, 2009. As stated by the sources, ...

Simferopol, Oct 20 (RIA Novosti) More than 5,000 inhabitants of the Crimean city of Feodosia were evacuated from their homes Tuesday morning as a World War II mine was removed from a ...

Wellington, Oct 20 (DPA) Several New Zealand secondary school students who kissed a swastika and made Nazi salutes at the country's Auckland war museum are to apologise Tuesday for their actions. The ...

By Ranjan Bhaduri, Los Angeles, California, Oct. 19 (THAINDIAN NEWS) In 1931, Clifford Clinton went on to open Cliffton's Cafeteria- the first in a range of chain restaurants. The owner being a devout ...

By Ranjan Bhaduri Oct. 19 (THAINDIAN NEWS)The federal government is now facing a lawsuit for the money it had raised around 70 years ago for the funding of the World War II. The ...

By Arun Kumar Washington, Oct 17 (IANS) Battling the worst recession in decades, President Barack Obama's government ran a $1.42 trillion deficit in fiscal year 2009 making it the worst year on ...

By Sanu George Kochi, Oct 17 (IANS) Joseph Hammond, a 65-year-old British national, long dreamt of tracing the place where his parents first met and married in Kerala in 1943. His dream was ...

New York, Oct 15 (DPA) The Dow Jones Industrial Average topped 10,000 points Wednesday, passing the symbolic mark for the first time since Oct 2008 as the world economy pulls out of ...

By Arun Kumar Washington, Oct 13 (IANS) More than 80 percent of top US economists believe that America has started pulling out of its worst downturn since World War II, but they expect ...

Frankfurt, Oct 13 (DPA) Kathrin Schmidt, a 51-year-old Berlin-based author, won the 25,000 euros ($37,000) German Book Prize Monday for her novel Du Stirbst Nicht (You're Not Going to Die). The novel describes ...