Offbeat

BEIJING: A popular Chinese microblogging service banned searches for “yellow duck” after users circulated a mocked-up image of a famous 1989 Tiananmen square ta

FRANKFURT: Mobile phones are frequently regarded as the bane of classical music concerts, especially when they go off mid-performance.

LOS ANGELES: Oscar-winning British actress Kate Winslet is expecting her first child with third husband Ned Rocknroll, whom she married last year, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.

PARIS: A giant lizard that lived 40 million years ago at a time when Earth was a hothouse has been named in honor of rock singer Jim Morrison, palaeontologists said on Wednesday.

Women’s prison workshops across Italy are joining up under a new commercial fashion brand they hope will help encourage more detainees to learn the trade and give them hope for a future on th

Veteran deep house DJ/producer Jesse Houk, notably known by his alias ‘The Scumfrog,’ is anything but conventional.

Dar Al-Hekma celebrated the graduation of its 11th batch of undergraduates and the eagerly awaited first class of MBA graduates on Monday.

Bollywood actress Jiah Khan, 25, was found dead at her home in Mumbai in an apparent suicide, police said yesterday.

At the Humlegaarden park in central Stockholm, Anders Weide keeps an eye on his young daughter Alma sleeping in her pram as he waits for a friend who’s gone to cha

More than one-third of US marriages begin online, and those couples may be slightly happier than couples who meet through other means, a US study out Monday found.