As the lenses continued flashing, and the camera phones even started to come out, Roy Keane rolled his eyes. It was in mock frustration, but it’s hard not to think there was a significant element of sincerity to it.

The International Monetary Fund has appealed to Washington for more stable management of the nation’s finances as Asian stock markets rose after US leaders agreed to avoid a default and end a 16-day government shutdown.

Playing Batman won't be a challenge for Ben Affleck, according to Matt Damon.

Police in India have arrested the last of five men wanted in the gang rape of a photojournalist in Mumbai, and said charges would be filed soon in a case that has incensed the public and fuelled debate over whether women can be safe in India.

Police said yesterday they have arrested six suspects in another gang rape of a bus passenger in India, four weeks after a brutal attack on a student on a moving bus in the capital outraged Indians and led to calls for tougher rape laws.

Another sexual attack has happened to another woman on a bus in India.

In India, the five men charged with the gang rape and murder of a woman could face the death penalty if found guilty.

A gang of men who raped a woman on a bus in New Delhi last month tried to run her over after the attack which left her fatally injured, reports said, citing a police account.

Blackburn’s owners were today seeking their third manager of the season after sacking a “bitterly disappointed” Henning Berg.

Blackburn have announced the sacking of manager Henning Berg and his coaching staff after less than eight weeks in charge of the club.

There have been mixed reactions in India to the death of Savita Halappanavar, who died following a miscarriage at University Hospital Galway.

Blackburn’s owners have insisted that deputy chief executive Paul Hunt has left the club as a cost-cutting measure rather than being sacked over a leaked letter.

Blackburn’s co-owner has insisted the club is not for sale despite their relegation from the Premier League.

Filming on the next Bond movie is all set to Goa – after authorities agreed to allow scenes to be shot in India.

An Indian hospital has been set upon by monkeys.

THE groom wore a garland made of bank notes and received a helicopter as a gift, there were 18,000 guests — or perhaps it was 30,000 — and 1,000 workers took 40 days to prepare the venue.

A GROUP of male passengers travelling in a female-only carriage on New Delhi’s new metro system were ordered to do sit-ups on the platform by the furious women.

Two more Australian athletes withdrew today and a South African competitor reportedly found a snake in his room as complaints over cleanliness, security and construction continued to dog the troubled Commonwealth Games a week before the sporting event opens in New Delhi.

Commonwealth Games Federation chief executive Mike Hooper insists his organisation should not shoulder the blame for the problems which have plagued the build-up to the event in Delhi.

Indian organisers faced more embarrassment today as a boxer’s bed collapsed when he sat on it after moving into his accommodation at the Commonwealth Games athletes’ village.

The head of the Commonwealth Games rushed to New Delhi for emergency talks today as a ceiling collapsed in one of the venues.

A wild bear was battered to death by villagers in east India after it mauled seven people, including a child.

SECURITY has been tight with nearly 350 Indian policemen and security officers guarding Academy Award winner Julia Roberts in the small town of Pataudi, where Roberts is staying at a former palace converted into a heritage hotel.

A pilot who once landed on the wrong runway is reported to have failed a breath test at an Indian airport, it emerged today.

A week after poisoned illegal drink killed 150 people, a state government in India wants to bring in capital punishment for suppliers involved in any future cases.

Just a week after a New Delhi court decriminalised homosexuality, the first gay “marriage” has taken place in India.

A south India village that worshipped monkeys after their numbers increased to more than half the population are now calling for them to be forced out.

More than 2,000 ancient hand-written manuscripts in an Indian language are about to be made available online.

Muslim organisations in India have said that making homosexuality legal in the country would be anti-Islamic.

Armed police attending the Mumbai terror attacks were out of practice, a committee investigating the shootings said today.

India’s prime minister today insisted it is time for peace with neighbouring Pakistan, but warned that relations between the two nuclear-armed rivals were still “under considerable stress” in the wake of last year’s terror attack in Mumbai.

A furious Indian bride burned her husband to death because he kept saying she was not as beautiful as one of his female friends.

Indian political parties were today focusing their attentions on their post-election strategies ahead of the results being announced over the weekend.

Clashes marred the final phase of India's parliamentary elections today, which left two people dead.

Voting for the fifth and final phase of parliamentary elections in India began today.

The 'Slumdog Millionaire' child actors have passed their school exams with good results despite poor attendance.

A record-breaking hotel employee in India has not taken a single day off work in the past three years.

Sporadic violence marred the fourth phase of parliamentary elections in India today.

A student at one of India’s top colleges has designed jewellery for diabetics that is edible in an emergency.

Four police officers were sacked after they sold a body they found to a hospital for research.

'Slumdog Millionaire' child actors Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail and Rubina Rafiq Ali Qureshi may soon leave the slums which won them their fame, it was reported today.

A senior Mumbai police official said the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was responsible for the terrorist attacks that left at least 174 people dead.

India’s top security official resigned today as the government struggled under growing accusations of security failures following terror attacks that killed 174 people.

India’s top security official offered his resignation today as the government struggled under growing accusations of security failures following the Mumbai attacks that left at least 174 people dead.