Wind, humidity and rainfall combined precisely to create the massive killer tornado in Oklahoma. And when they did, the awesome amount of energy released over that city dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that leveled Japanese city of Hiroshima during World War II.

Cricketer Ajit Chandila had approached two more Indian Premier League (IPL) players to be part of the spot fixing after bookies asked him to rope in more people, police sources said on Friday.

The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless aid fell last week to its lowest level in nearly 5-1/2 years, signaling labour market resilience in the face of fiscal austerity.

The Mumbai underworld is involved in the IPL spot-fixing scandal, Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar said, reviving fears about the influence of shadowy dons in the "gentleman's game".

India's Olympic suspension could be lifted in the next couple of months, claimed Sports Minister Jitendra Singh, insisting that the process to end the exile has already been set in motion by the IOC.

A December 16 gang-rape accused has been "poisoned" in Tihar Jail and is critically ill, his lawyer told a special court on Wednesday.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Saturday he welcomed a US-Russian peace initiative to end Syria's civil war but had no plans to resign.

The war of the Charles Sobhraj epics has just begun. Even as DAR Motion Pictures have acquired the rights to film Farrukh Dhondy's book "Bikini Murders", allegedly based on the life and crimes of Charles Sobhraj, news comes that another Sobhraj film is all set to go on the floors this July.

Women around the world face many claims surrounding their beauty regimes during pregnancy. Women face a lot of uncertainty as their bodies change during pregnancy, and many worry about how to look their best, said Mary Rosser, assistant professor at Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women's Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Ye0shiva University.

Sarabjit Singh could not have been fatally attacked within the prison "without the knowledge and support of prison guards and the authorities", Pakistan's leading rights watchdog said on Thursday.