Shailesh Shrivastava

After Amazon.com Inc.'s official announcement this week introducing its 7-inch Kindle Fire tablet for just $199, rumors are rife the company may bring out its second-generation tablet with a 10.1-inch screen this year.

Superfast muscles, which were earlier found in rattle snakes, song bird and some fish, have now been found in bats too. The new discovery makes bats the first mammal possessing these muscles.

An invitation from the White House would have a life time achievement for any American as people gatecrash the White House receptions, but for the Hall of Fame American footballer Dan Hampton it is an invitation he is not accepting.

Basketball fans in Italy will now pray to delay the NBA Lockout as long as possible so they can see the performance of Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant.

A high-ranking member of al-Qaeda and a radical Islamic cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, was targeted and killed in Khashef town of Yemen's Jawf province, a statement from the country's foreign press office said.

The war-ridden country of Afghanistan has got a shot in its arm with the US Geological Survey releasing a report demonstrating the wealth of the country in the world-class mineral resources.

A day after Amazon's announcement of launching Kindle Fire, which will cost just $199, Best Buy announced a huge discount on BlackBerry PlayBook.

Hollywood actress and singer Anna Faris in a recent encounter with media revealed that she had bedded five guys before getting married to Chris Pratt in 2009.

American student Amanda Knox, who was convicted of murdering her flat mate, is a victim of tragic judicial case and is an innocent girl whose life has been swept away by a tsunami, Amanda's defense lawyer told the court on Thursday, during an appeal against the original verdict.

Children of the missing Utah mom will remain in the custody of her parents as a Washington court thinks that the environment of Josh Powell's - the father of the kids - home is dangerous with sexually explicit material.

According to a Beijing Times report, the Shenzhou-10, which will be China's sixth manned spacecraft, is likely to carry Chinese female astronauts into space.

At a distance of about 13,000 light-years from Earth, it is the closest yellow hypergiant found to date and new observations show it shines some 500,000 times more brightly than the Sun.

An unidentified object believed to have fallen from the sky was found in Indian state of Meghalaya on Tuesday. The mysterious object was recovered from a flower bed of St Edmund's College in Shillong.

Noble or inert gases, like helium, argon and neon inside the earth's thickest layer (mantle) have given clues about the planet's birth.

Finding it difficult to get the information or any clue about the shooter/s who killed five people in rural Franklin County, Indiana State Police sought citizens' help to nab the culprit.

Ahead of Tuesday's crucial talks between the NBA and the National Basketball Players' Association (NBPA), NBPA president Derek Fisher indicated toward the differences among NBA teams.

Puntius Denisonii, better known as the Roseline Shark, is a popular choice when it comes to adding some ornamental fish to your aquarium. However, it is now facing extinction simply because it is so beautiful.

An Afghan man employed at the U.S. embassy attacked a CIA office in Kabul and shot dead an American on Sunday evening.

It could have ended as many mystery murder stories in which the murder never gets caught. But this 33-year-old woman could not end it that well and landed in police net for stabbing her husband 35 times with an ice-poker on Wednesday.

Ending the ongoing speculations in Russia over the next presidential candidate from the ruling United Russia party, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Saturday accepted President Dmitry Medvedev's proposal to stand for president in March 2012.

The ongoing labor crisis in the NBA has started casting its shadow over the training session and the preseason.

NASA astronomers, who used Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and captured a black hole's flaring active jets, have been benefited with the new rare discovery in many ways.

China is all set to launch its first unmanned space module on Tuesday. The world's third biggest country will launch the test module into orbit via Long March II-F rocket, which is developed by China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology.

For the first time NASA astronomers using Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) captured the innermost part of the black hole's (GX 339-A) active jets.

For the second time in a week's duration, the Supreme Court halted a planned execution in Texas by intervening in the final hours of the execution.

After waiting for days to get one signature needed for the release of two U.S. hikers in Iran, lawyer Masoud Shafiei said he has finally succeeded in his mission on Wednesday.

World's fastest man, Usain Bolt, recovered from the blow he suffered last month at the world championship Daegu by being disqualified for a false start on Saturday.

Worried about the declining number of the North Pacific loggerhead sea turtles, the United States declared the species as endangered on Friday.

A day after the shocking revelations surfacing about 2012 presidential hopeful Sarah Palin's past, first reaction has finally come out from the Palin camp.