Sanskrity Sinha

About 18 couples from Nigeria, Russia and China tied the knots in a freezing cold of minus 20 degrees during a group wedding ceremony at the Chinese city of Harbin Friday.

An array of rare artifacts -- said to be the biggest ever collection of the Titanic assets comprising over 5,000 pieces which were recovered from the wreck of the RMS Titanic -- will go under the hammer April 11, tallying with the 100th anniversary of the maiden voyage of the doomed ship.

The determining factors for the best-governed cities include access to jobs, crime rate, poverty rate and the percentage of high school graduate population.

A German newspaper clipping from 1894 found in the city of Passau is compelling historians to believe in the local legends that has it that Adolf Hitler was saved from drowning as a 4-year-old boy in River Inn in the Lower Bavarian city.

Tourism in North Korea is restricted and controlled by the government. Tourists often visit the country in guided tours with strict supervision from Korean authorities.

The Las Vegas Hilton hotel and casino has officially lost its eight-year ties with Hilton Worldwide, the leading global hospitality company, after a license agreement expired at the start of 2012.

Ice Castles created with icicles and ever-evolving ice formations at Silverthrone in Colorado have been attracting lots of visitors.

Skiers flew off the ski jump, overlooking the hills and the audience, during the second event of the 60th Four Hills Ski Jumping Tournament, in Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany, over the weekend.

Light artist Gerry Hofstetter projected the Swiss cross, along with other images, on to the north face of the Jungfrau (a mountain in the Bernese Alps) on Jan. 1, launching the start of the celebrations of Jungfrau Railways' centenary year.

Within 48 hours of joining Twitter, Rupert Murdoch drew some ire because of his rude comment on Britons.

Hundreds of herring fish, about 20 tons, washed up dead on a beach at Kvennes in Nordreisa, northern Norway.

A love inscription found on a ceramic mouthpiece of a smoking pipe discovered during an ongoing archaeological excavation in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem suggests that the pipe was probably given as a gift to a lover.

The 2,000-year-old clay seal was found at a site known as the City of David and has written accounts of ritual practices in Temple Mount, a religious site in the Old City of Jerusalem.

The actress, who played Hermione Granger to Daniel Radcliffe’s Harry Potter, has earned herself the status of a style icon.

Archaeologists have revealed the discovery of a mass burial pit, comprising of over 100 bodies, near the ancient Huaca Las Ventanas pyramid in northern Peru.

Kate Middleton was undoubtedly the fashion and beauty icon of 2011 but her younger sister, Pippa Middleton, seems to have outdone her sibling on BBC's Faces of the year 2011 - the Women list.

The Balea Lac Hotel of Ice in the Fagaras Mountains, 300km (184 miles) northwest of Bucharest, Romania, is ready and opened to tourists for the current winter season.

A herd of Siberian tigers chased and snatched away live chicken fed to them from a tourist safari bus at the Siberian Tiger Forest Park in Harbin, China on Tuesday.

The Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival will be officially launched on Jan. 5. However, tourists have already begun flocking to visit the sculptures.

Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan posed for a photoshoot along with his pet dog, Shanouk, for the cover of as yet unnamed magazine.

Don, the protagonist, is the villain and hero, to be precise. Don’s characterization portrays a juxtaposition of both good and the evil. He kills his enemies but is portrayed to have a kind heart for women.

Kate Middleton, global warming and the Olympics will be among the top usage of words in English language in 2012, according to current word trends in global English being tracked by the Global Language Monitor.

A recent report by Department of Environment and Conservation, Labrador and Aboriginal Affairs, shows that the world's largest herd of reindeer, the George River caribou herd in Canada’s eastern province of Quebec, has shrunken in size significantly.

Man-made assets in space have oft proven their worth, over a number of situations and through difficult times. Now, however, it seems there could be yet another use for them. The European Space Agency (ESA) and its satellites can apparently help decide how much irrigation vineyards require and at what times.

Kate Middleton or, if one was to be official - Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge - exuded elegance and style, as she attended a military awards ceremony, The Night of Heroes: The Sun Military Awards at the Imperial War Museum in central London, on Monday. The resemblance to Princess Diana was, in many ways, striking.

Is the craze for social media waning? Is it becoming less of a draw, compared to what it used to be a few years back? Well... financial advisors in the U.S. feel it is, a recent report reveals.

A collection of some 50 groups of stone columns erected at what is today called Al-Rajajil (translated as The Men), near the ancient oasis town of Sakakah in Al-Jawf province in northwestern Saudi Arabia.

There are only a few more days left to ring in the New Year and if that is not incentive enough to go hunting for exotic travel destinations, consider that 2011 was the Year of Travel according to industry experts. Travel advisors at Virtuoso, a leading luxury travel network in the Americas, the Caribbean, Australia and New Zealand, suggest the top seven destinations that ought to be visited in 2012.

Referred to as Dear Leader and Our Father, Kim Jong-il (also written Kim Jung or Kim Jong Il), died while traveling by train, on Saturday. He was 69 and, according to a state authorized report, died of advanced acute myocardial infarction.