New Delhi, May 19 : Survival tales continue in the Chinese province of Sichuan, the wors

Washington, May 19: American neuroscientists are using a technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a type of brain scan that measures blood flow, to understand what happens in

London, May 19: Black and Asian police officers are not being considered for top jobs in the force, according to a senior police chief.

London - Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich was the mystery buyer of two paintings which smashed records at auctions of British works in New York last week, the London-based Art Newspaper reported Monday.

Abramovich, who lives in London, was said to have bought Lucian Freud's painting Benefits Supervisor Sleeping for 17.2 million pounds (34.4 million dollars) at Christie's in New York on May 13.

He also splashed out 43 million pounds the next day on Francis Bacon's Triptych, painted in 1976, at rival auction house Sotheby's in New York, the well-informed Art Newspaper said.

The work by Freud, a life-size painting of a naked London Jobcentre supervisor sleeping, broke the world auction record for a work by a living artist.

Beijing, May 19: Massive landslides resulting from the strong earthquake of 7.8 magnitude last Monday in southwest China, have led to the formation of at least 21 lakes in various cities after land