Monami Thakur

Introducing the stunning, elegant and hot Miss Universe 2011 participants from 89 countries and regions across the world.

Headed towards the Shikoku and Hiroshima regions of the Japan archipelago, Typhoon Talas is the 5th typhoon of the 2011 Pacific Typhoon season.

A huge chunk of ice from a north Greenland glacier, almost double the size of Manhattan, is on the verge of a break-off, stunned scientists and researchers reveal.

The 89 Contestants for the Miss Universe pageant 2011 are involved in a busy schedule of activities in Brazil from FormulaOne racetracks to non-government organizations working to keep poor children off the streets.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered a pair of supermassive black holes in a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way. Located approximately 160 million light years from Earth, the pair is the nearest known such phenomenon.

Los Angeles-based artist, Cain Motter, like many others, has tried to share his opinion about the impact of using credit cards on the modern society.

After years of research and investigation, the headless skeleton of the notorious Irish-Australian bush-ranger has been identified by forensic experts at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine (VIFM).

The 68th annual Venice Film Festival has commenced in Venice, Italy from Aug. 31, 2011 with the American film, The Ides of March, directed by George Clooney.

Across the world, thousands of children involved in military conflict and political issues in countries like Libya, Afghanistan and Africa have lost their innocence, being caught up in acts of innate human cruelty.

In order to maintain the work of four Brazilian artists on Kelburn Castle, Aryshire, the Earl of Glasgow has asked the permission of the North Ayrshire Council.

Chinese astronomers are proposing sending spacecraft up to ward off asteroids that may be headed on a collision course with Earth.

Astronomers have revealed startling facts about how widely separated solar reactions are linked, with one eruption somehow triggering the other.

For the 2011 Miss Universe pageant, contestants from 89 countries and regions across the world are participating at the Credicard Hall in São Paulo on Sept.12.

NASA scientists, using data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), have discovered the coldest class of star-like bodies, with temperatures as cool as the human body.

Fashion was high at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards with stars like Kim Kardashian, Britney Spears and Selena Gomez dazzling the red carpet with their stunning gowns and dresses.

Ruling the list of popular internet trends like planking, owling and leisure diving is a most awkward theme: Horsemaning.

To protest against the brutal practice of shark finning, British performance artist Alice Newstead has employed a similar painful method by hanging herself using hooks in the window of the Union Street storefront.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured new raw images of Saturn's oddly shaped moon, Hyperion, during its second closest encounter with the cratered body on Aug. 25, 2011.

While they have shouldered enormous responsibilities and acted as source of inspiration for millions, the Presidents of the United States have played equally important roles as husbands and fathers.

A state of emergency has been declared in six states toward the U.S. East Coast after Hurricane Irene caused havoc in the Bahamas.

Giving tough competition to Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic on the commercial space tourism front is the new six-person pod designed by the Spanish company Zero2infinity.

After causing widespread damage in Bahamas on Thursday, Hurricane Irene is now heading to North Carolina, New York with winds over 115 miles per hour.

Fromer Australian cricketer, Shane Warne has reportedly asked his lady love, Liz Hurley to walk down the aisle with him.

A small, shrew-like creature from the Jurassic era may be the earliest-known ancestor of the present placental mammals, which includes humans, a new study reveals.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center has issued an advisory that Hurricane Irene could grow to Category 4 from its current Category 3 stage as it moves across the Bahamas.

NASA's Swift Satellite has captured an unusual cosmic phenomenon of the awakening of a distant, dormant massive black hole and the subsequent devouring of a sun-like star.

As revolutionaries overran the compound of Moammar Gadhafi early on Wednesday, the dictator made a vow to fight against rebels that would end in either his death or victory.

Although the $70 million luxury home was completely destroyed, Branson made a promise to rebuild the place in time for his daughter's wedding in November.

A close scrutiny reveals that the main inspiration behind the wedding was Pippa Middleton, the 27-year-old sister of the Duchess of Cambridge.