TopNews

Melbourne, May 23 : US Presidential hopeful John McCain and Ellen DeGeneres went head-to-head on the issue of gay marriage during her television talk show.

Beijing  - China Mobile wireless plans to takeover fixed-line China Railway Communication in a long-awaited industry overhaul that also involves smaller telecom providers Unicom and Netcom, Xinhua

Karachi  - Pakistan stocks were dragged down on Friday to their lowest level since the beginning of the year on the central bank's interest rate hike and a cloud of political uncertainties and econ

Amsterdam  - Archaeologists have found a settlement dating back to the Bronze Age just north of Eindhoven, a city in the southern Netherlands, Dutch archaeologist Nico Arts told Dutch media Friday.

The discovery was made during preparations for the building of a highway junction at Ekkersrijt, north of Eindhoven.

The settlement may be the largest ever discovered in the Netherlands, and is definitely the largest settlement ever found in the southern Netherlands.

Bronze Age settlements (1500-850 BC) have also been discovered in the province of Drenthe in the eastern Netherlands. However, these are smaller than the Eindhoven settlement.

London, May 23 : British Midland Airways (BMI) has launched a new facility which allows passengers to get through security and on to their plane just by showing them a barcode sent by the airline t