In a cavernous warehouse amid rolling hills and dairy farms, a group of farmers recently gathered around a buyer in a conversation heralding a sea change in the United...

President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has signed a series of energy co-operation deals with China.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Beijing Tuesday to meet with top Chinese officials and to discuss the possibility of buying weapons, state-run media...

Yea, we made it at last. Two sparkling gold medals, and another record broken, belatedly though, at the on-going Olympics from the Women’s Shot Put (F54) and the...

HOW quickly would Usain Bolt have run the 100 metres at the Beijing Olympics if he hadn’t slowed in celebration before the finish line? A team of physicists have...

Most of the history that happened in Beijing over the past few weeks took place in gyms, in the pool and on the track. But there was also history in the air,...

Following is a selection of the top 10 moments from the Beijing Olympics:

Jeremy Wariner wears sunglasses at night. Dayron Robles sports a chain so thick that Mr. T thinks it’s ostentatious. Gail Devers used to run sprints with her...

It’s enough to make even weather-obsessed Brits forget the dismal summer. They’ve stopped talking, too, about the housing crisis. Even the start of another...

Sushil Kumar and Vijender Kumar gave Indian sport a double delight Wednesday.

Michael Phelps made history yesterday after winning his eighth Olympic gold in Beijing. Mark Spitz said, “I was the equivalent of the first man on the Moon. He’s...

I don’t know about you but I’ve been spending a lot of time enjoying the Michael Phelps Show, er, Summer Olympics this week.

Indian boxer Akhil Kumar gave the country the best Independence Day gift stunning world champion Sergey Vodapoyanov of Russia to enter the quarterfinals of the...

Another section of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony has been exposed as faked - the children supposedly representing the country’s 56 ethnic groups were in...

Chinese strongwoman Liu Chunhong broke three world records to retain her Olympic title in the women’s 69kg category on Wednesday at the Beijing Olympics

– With the Olympics in Beijing in full course there has been more violence reported in the western region of Xinjiang: three security guards were killed and a fourth...

Abhinav Bindra’s solitary gold medal at Beijing has ended an Olympic gold-medal drought for India. He is the only Indian to win an individual gold—the last time...

Abhinav Bindra’s historic gold medal at the Beijing Olympics continues to earn applause and incentives for the ace shooter, who will be conferred with a medal and...

Lessons learnt during the preparations for the Beijing Olympics that opens on Friday can help promote more green initiatives for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New...

Congratulating Abhinav Bindra’s gold winning feat in the 10 M air rifle event at the Beijing Olympics, former Olympian T C Yohannan said India had chances of...