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Gina Rinehart, an Australian mining tycoon has leap-frogged Walmart heiress Christy Walton as the world's richest woman with a daily income of £32m.

The inquiry revealed Fred Michel's communications with Jeremy Hunt's aide included 191 phone calls, 158 emails and 799 texts between January 2010 and July 2011.

The government hikes taxes on tobacco products in order to become the first smoke free country in 2025.

In a rare case of “vehicle versus pedestrian traffic collision” in the city of Burbank in Los Angeles County in Southern California, a 101 year old man was killed by a 91 year old woman driver on Tuesday.

A clay seal found during an excavation in Jerusalem is said to be the first and only object to have the mention of Bethlehem outside Bible. Bethlehem is cited as the birth place of Jesus Christ in the Bible.

A 45-year-old man known as Park first person to be chemically castrated in South Korea.

NASA has created more than 1,600 other products in computer technology, environment and agriculture, health and medicine, public safety, transportation, recreation, and industrial productivity.

A video which shows a babysitter and her boyfriend placing a toddler in a tumble-dryer and panicking as it automatically begins a cycle.

During transition, people on earth will see Venus as a small dot gliding slowly across the sun.

Scientists from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology come up with breakthrough technique.

Weapon bearing Birmingham hallmarks made by H W Mortimer, London, in the late 18th Century.

Conditions that led to the Great Oxygenation Event 2.5 billion years ago were caused by sudden changes in the “inner workings” of earth.

The article in Malay language tabloid Metro Ahad claimed incest was common among nomadic Penan communities in Ulu Baram area.

The dog-bite victim is receiving treatment in a London hospital but officials rule out risk to the general public.

A serving Metropolitan Police detective and three former police officials arrested, questioned and later released on bail, over allegations of providing information to the Nigerian fraudster James Ibori for a payment.

Daredevil stuntman Gary Connery becomes first person to fall from such height without deploying parachute.

Arkady Gaydamak says copy of the international diamond exports contract was entrusted to the chief rabbi of Russia, Berel Lazar.

Writer Will Self has told the Evening Standard how he and his family had to flee his home after the Victorian townhouse in Stockwell, south London, collapsed.

A toddler had a narrow escape after they he pedalled his toy trike down a hectic major city road in Wenzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province.

A Cambridge University student newspaper, is under scanner after posing racy images of female students in lingerie - a poll for the best bottoms and to pick the best among them.

United States fails to make the top ten happiest countries in the world, while countries like Australia, Israel and all of the Scandinavian nations do. Denmark is the happiest country in 2012.

Dr Shakil Afridi accused of treason after setting up fake vaccination camp in Abbottabad to verify Osama Bin Laden was living in the city.

Face distortion video tricks the eye and makes pretty e faces of stars such as Angelina Jolie and George Clooney seem ugly.

Mark Zuckerberg Priscilla Chan Love Story details and secrets.

Paranoid schizophrenic who beheaded fellow passenger on Canadian coach in 2008 thought he was an alien.

People including common street vendors were brutally beaten and cruelly treated.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Professor Noam Chomsky and Private Eye editor Ian Hislop among those who signed letter calling for fresh inquiry into Lockerbie bombing.

A new study has found that one-third of US homeless people are obese.

Scientists are planning to use space technologies to kill harmful bacteria in the hospitals.