Palash Ghosh

Blackouts are a common occurrence in Pakistan, particularly when summer temperatures rise to 100 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.

The New York Daily News and various other media outlets recently reported on how Kevin Williamson, a columnist for the National Review and theater critic, became so annoyed by the chattering of a woman on her cell phone during a performance of a musical in New York that he grabbed her phone and threw it across the room.According to accounts, Williamson initially complained about the woman to theater ushers to no avail. So out of desperation, he took matters into his own hands. Literally. For that, he received a slap in face. The lady then stalked off to try to find her phone, threatening to file charges along the way; Williamson apparently has not been arrested for anything yet.

Chinese people have lived in Kolkata for at least 230 years, dating back to the time when the city was the capital of the British Empire in India.

Demetri Marchessini's donations amount to some 20 percent of UKIP’s contributions so far this year.

As with many other European countries, the Czech Republic is witnessing falling birth rates and a declining number of marriages.

The number of homeless people in Greece has surged by 25 percent since 2009.

At least 50,000 African migrants live in Turkey, mostly in Istanbul. About one-third of them are from sub-Saharan Africa.

Betting on cricket (which is completely illegal in India) is a multibillion-dollar annual enterprise.

Sting has been visiting India for half his life (he will turn 62 in October).

It is unclear if the symbol of Nawaz Sharif's PML-N party is a lion or a tiger.

Radstock has a population of about 5,620, including just 16 Muslims.

Hong Kong women's rights activists have demanded that security secretary Lai retract his statements about alcohol and rape.

The pro-environment group is conducting a review of documents showing that Green Party members and associates in the 1980s advocated to legalize pedophilia.

Barbara Walters has announced her retirement from ABC. Uh, actually, she’s quitting next year, but thought it would be good to let the public know now so it will have time to digest and cope with this “tragic” news.Walters is actually a historic figure in United States broadcast journalism -- she was the first woman to co-anchor a nightly network news show back in the mid-1970s. But now she is involved in something called “The View,” a daytime talk show that has been on the air for some 15 merciless years.

Aviva’s chief executive, Mark Wilson, wants to save £400 million ($611 million) in costs by cutting about 6 percent of its total workforce.

The cult, which worships death, mixes some indigenous beliefs with the Catholic veneration of saints.

Now 63 years old, Carlos the Jackal, a native of Venezuela and a fanatic Marxist-Leninist, has been jailed in France since 1994.

Critics of Brazil's plan to fix a doctor shortage - only 1.8 for every 1,000 people - question the standards of Cuban medical schools.

South Asia, which accounts for about one-fourth of the global population, records 40 percent of all first-day deaths on the planet.

Last year, China poured some £8 billion into the U.K. -– an all-time record –- and quintuple the amount from just two year ago.

An Indian postman is building a replica of the Taj Mahal to honor his late wife.

Prostitution is rampant in China, despite its illegality and periodic crackdowns by state authorities.

The media's use of the “liberal bias” term has become so overused it's lost all meaning. That is until something so egregious happens one is forced to realize that liberal bias is not a fantasy created by right-wing lunatics.On Friday, the former chairman of the Democratic Party in South Carolina, a man named Dick Harpootlian, insulted South Carolina's sitting Republican governor, Nikki Haley, by making what appeared to be a reference to her ethnic origin; she is an American-born daughter of Sikh immigrants from Punjab, India.Telling party members that Haley must be defeated in next year’s elections, Harpootlian implored the Democrats to “send Nikki Haley back to wherever the hell she came from.”

Pope Francis' decision to canonize 800 people who were killed by Ottoman Turks may frustrate his efforts to reach out to Muslims.

Turkey plans to build a second nuclear power plant courtesy of a Japanese-French consortium.

The anti-Semitic, far-right Jobbik party holds the third-largest number of seats in Hungary's parliament.

This incident is only one of a number of episodes that have triggered questions about the safety of air travel in India.

With 1,000 films produced annually (about double Hollywood’s output), Bollywood is the world’s most prolific cinema factory.

Hundreds of other Bangladeshi garment workers have died in other fires over the past decade.