On guard with the Vikings in old Byzantium

Eighteen-year-old Chandana Chandrashekar, a student of Sophia High School, Bangalore, did not let a 100 per cent visual impairment and a 40 per cent hearing impairment come in the way of her academic pursuits. She scored 76.4 per cent marks in the ...

Mumbai, May 18: Sophia Jamal Samtani, a Lebanese woman married to a Sindhi Indian, had the fortune to sit next to actor Ranbir Kapoor while on a flight from Dubai to Mumbai recently. Ranbir had gone to Dubai to promote his upcoming film. The lady was sleeping ...

Think Sophia Loren meets Miriam Makeba, then think Nelson Mandela meets Malcolm X, and you have the exquisitely beautiful countenance of the most formidable, effective, "won't-take-no-for-an-answer" woman in Somaliland today. Her name is Edna Adan ...

If your name is Jacob, youre in good company. Jacob is the most popular name for boys again and Sophia is the top name for girls, according to the Social Security Administration, the government agency that keeps track of baby names. It was Jacobs ...

Insurance companies will pay $600,000 to a former officer who sued the Sophia Police Department over claims he was harassed and fired because he is black, Mayor Danny Barr said. That payout is more than the small West Virginia town's entire $560,000 ...

India and South Africa are scheduled to kick-off the eight-nation tournament on June 6 at the Sophia Gardens at Wales, in a Group B match. (Reuters) Related Top Stories India might have left out seasoned campaigners Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh and ...

Sophia and Bill Nye, the Science Guy, announced the launch of Operation College Success to offer free tools to help address the issue of college readiness and affordability. "It's startling to think that two-thirds of high school students don't have ...

The majestic Hagia Sophia in Istanbul 's lovely Sultanahmet neighborhood. Photo by Ricardo Baca , The Denver Post Last fall, I faced one of those travel dilemmas a backpacker loves to solve. My objective: Getting from Tel Aviv to Cairo in 48 ...