AN INTERESTING article, which was first published in the online journal The Conversation, is reproduced in the current edition of Scientific American, writes Richard Collins. 

A man has been arrested over the alleged rape of an Irish woman working with an aid agency in India.

'Doomsday' is a sci-fi horror that, alas, brings nothing innovative to the genre, excerpt an overly-elaborate and complex plot that could have done with severe pruning.

Internet auction site eBay and industry officials have voiced anger over the jailing of the chief executive of eBay’s Indian subsidiary in connection with the online sale of a school sex video.

Rampaging wild elephants destroyed huts and sent villagers fleeing after one of their herd was killed by poachers in southeastern Bangladesh, a conservation official said today.