A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Chile on Monday, the US Geological Survey said, with no immediate tsunami warning issued or reports of casualties or significant damage.

A 60 year old man was arrested from Bhopal by Pune police in connection with a 20-year old murder case.

A convict sentenced to life term allegedly committed suicide on Monday by hanging himself at the Salem central prison.

An unemployed youth allegedly killed his mother after she refused to give him money for his expenses in Balipur village, the police said on Sunday.

Two agents and two other linkmen of Pakistani spy agency ISI were arrested at Kurseong in Darjeeling district.

A man jumped out of a moving aircraft while it was about to take off from an airport in Malaysia, causing delay in the flight operations.

Riding high on confidence, world champion Viswanathan Anand outsmarted Jon Ludvig Hammer of Norway to jump to the joint second spot in the Norway chess 2013 super tournament. The penultimate round victory turned out to be an important one for Anand as it brought him within striking distance of winning the super tournament for which the Indian ace will need a victory against Wnag Hao of China in the last round.

A lady passenger was booted off an American Airlines flight en route from Los Angeles to New York on Monday. The reason was her non-stop singing of Whitney Houston's hit "I Will Always Love You". The plane's pilot made an unscheduled stop in Kansas City about halfway through the six-hour flight after passengers and crew complained about the woman's incessant singing.

Women find men with styled facial hair more attractive and look for partners with body grooming habits, underlined by the belief that excessive body hair is unattractive, says a survey conducted by Philips India in collaboration with research agency Hansa.

Twenty one people were injured when an aircraft skidded off Nepal's Jomsom airport and fell into a river on Thursday, police said.