Monami Thakur

Egypt's ruling VP, Omar Suleiman, has recently survived an assassination attempt although it left two of his bodyguards dead, a media report said.

On Sunday, millions of viewers across the globe will be able to watch the television debut of GM's and NASA's dexterous humanoid robot called Robonaut 2 or R2 during the Super Bowl pre-game show on Fox network.

Global luxury brand, Banana Republic has unveiled its Spring 2011 marketing campaign titled Journey in Style, inspired by the brand's heritage of discovery.

Luxury brand Armand de Brignac, produced by champagne house Champagne Cattier, has unveiled the largest bottle of luxury Champagne in existence called the Midas.

The A|X Armani Exchange Spring 2011 advertising campaign, Style Festival is regarded as an adventure of sound and style, evoking the independence and free-spirited world of music that speaks directly to the A|X Generation.

Housed within the Es Saadi Palace Spa in the Red City of Marrakech, the new Dior Institut is the first of its kind to open in a hotel outside France.

Starting February 7, German automobile manufacturer Audi will act as the Presenting Sponsor of the 41st FIS Alpine World Ski Championships scheduled to be held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Google Inc. and Twitter are now offering a new method to help Egyptians, blocked from the Internet, communicate using a voice connection system.

Kukui'ula, the first new luxury residential community in Hawaii in over a decade, has opened on the southern coastline of the island of Kauai.

The Brazilian government along with Survival International, an organization working for tribal people's rights worldwide, has released never before seen visuals of an uncontacted Amazonian tribe living near the border of Peru.

A deadly winter storm is likely to affect one third of the US, threatening to lay a potentially deadly path of heavy snow and ice from the Rockies to New England.

With the government blocking Internet and cell phone connections in Egypt for the fifth consecutive day, the scene is one of complete chaos at the Cairo International Airport as tourists flock to escape the growing disturbance in the country.

Nobel Peace laureate, Mohamed ElBaradei took a stand in Tahrir, or Liberation Square on Sunday calling for the ruling Mubarak regime to resign.

The National Weather Service has issued an urgent blizzard warning on Sunday for portions of Northern Illinois and Northwest Indiana.

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg played a surprise host to actor Jesse Eisenberg on Saturday Night Live.

Thousands of demonstrators revolted on the streets of Egypt since Friday demanding an end to the decade-long dictatorship of the Mubarak regime.

An emergency condition has been issued by the government in Japan after the Shinmoedake peak on the southern island of Kyushu erupted, spewing columns of ask and smoke in the sky.

Symbolizing the beauty and majesty of Chinese imperial power, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is showcasing an exhibition of objects that once adorned an exclusive compound in the Forbidden City.

Baselworld, the world's premier watch and jewelry show, is adopting new communication channels to promote the importance of the trade show for the luxury goods industry.

The U.S. Treasury could sell all of its stock in General Motors Co. within the next year, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing an unidentified Treasury official.

Famous opera singer José Carreras and musician A. R. Rahman received the World Economic Forum Crystal Award 2011 on Wednesday at the opening ceremony.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) on Wednesday launched a Risk Response Network (RRN) in Davos to facilitate collective response to complex and interconnected global risks.

Leading leisure travel group, Thomas Cook, has signed a binding contract with Airbus on Tuesday for 12 new A321 aircrafts as part of its single aisle fleet harmonization and renewal plan.

Thousands of curious onlookers are flocking to get a closer look at a crop circle in a rice field in Indonesia after rumors spread that it was formed by a UFO.

Show me your luggage and I'll tell you who you are - This 1921 Louis Vuitton advertising slogan perfectly evokes the intimate relationship that every traveler has with his trunks and luggage.

Thousands of art lovers queued in freezing temperatures on Saturday night for a final glimpse of a major retrospective on French Impressionist Claude Monet, after Paris' Grand Palais opened round the clock to cope with demand.

In 1999, a US high-tech stealth fighter jet was drowned by a vintage SA-3 missile shot by a Siberian air-force commander named Col. Zoltan Dani.

Coda Automotive Inc., an electric car company based in Santa Monica, California, has named industry veteran and former executive of GM China, Phil Murtaugh, as its new CEO.

Apple announced Saturday that over 10 billion applications have been downloaded from its App Store.