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HMS Queen Elizabeth: £3bn warship floods ‘weekly’, admits captain The commanding officer of Britain’s HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier has estimated it suffers “weekly” floods. The £3bn warship had to be recalled from sea trials in July after 200 tonnes of water spilled from a burst pipe...

Hamas has captured a dolphin that it says the Israel Navy was using to attack members of its armed wing, Izzadin Kassam, the Palestinian daily Al-Quds claimed on Wednesday. Quoting sources in the Gaza Strip, the paper said that the Israeli dolphin had been captured off the shores of the Gaza...

Sania Mirza's ranking remained at number three but she closed the gap to just 145 points with the world number one Italians Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci, who both have 7640 points each. This after she won Miami Open doubles title with Martina Hingis. Miami: Sania Mirza took a giant leap...

Supreme Court allows Sahara to raise loan for boss's bail (Reuters) - The Supreme Court has cleared the way for embattled conglomerate Sahara to raise $1.05 billion in fresh loans backed by its overseas hotels, helping the group to fund the bail it needs to release its jailed boss. Sahara...

SINGAPORE: Indian ace Sania Mirza and her Zimbabwean partner Cara Black ended the season and their partnership on a remarkable high by clinching the season-ending finale with a comprehensive triumph in the summit clash here today. Sania and Cara, making their debut at the year-end...

The $40 billion jet buying spree - IndiGo's big bet By Tommy Wilkes and Tim Hepher NEW DELHI/PARIS (Reuters) - Almost four years ago a handful of people gathered in Airbus sales chief John Leahy's spacious country house outside Toulouse and argued long into the evening over curry and cigars...

Sania Mirza-Bruno Soares win US Open mixed doubles title NEW YORK: A beaming Sania Mirza squealed and jumped into the arms of her partner, Brazil's Bruno Soares, as the top seeds sealed a 6-1, 2-6, 11-9 win over American Abigail Spears and Mexico's Santiago Gonzalez in exactly an hour in the...

Move to fast-track two submarine projects gathers steam NEW DELHI: There is finally some urgency being shown to rescue India's ageing and depleting underwater combat arm. The approval for two long-pending projects, one for construction of six advanced diesel-electric submarines and the other for...

B-52 Bomber Gets Its First New Communications System Since the 1960s Boeing’s CONECT system, pictured here in the cockpit of the B1 bomber, brings color screens and new technology to the stalwart B-52. Photo: US Air Force The B-52 bomber, one of the great stalwarts of America’s military...

Khan's Pakistan 'would shoot US drones' 05 October 2012 Pakistani politician Imran Khan has said that he would be prepared to authorise the shooting down of US drone aircraft in Pakistan should he be made prime minister in next year's election. In an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today...

Prince captains one of RAF's fastest rescue flights 17 August 2012 Prince William captained one of the "fastest and shortest" rescue operations conducted by the Royal Air Force during a mission to save a 16-year-old girl off the coast of Anglesey, according to reports. It was said to have...

Team Anna disbanded, team members taken by surprise In a decision that took his colleagues by surprise, Anna Hazare today disbanded his team and appeared to be speaking in mixed tones on the political course taken by the anti-corruption movement. The decision to dissolve the team came as a...

Typhoon makes first Olympic security scare flight 26 July 2012 Eurofighter Typhoon, Olympics A Typhoon jet was scrambled to intercept an airliner which lost communications as it left French airspace yesterday, the MoD has confirmed. The passenger jet, a Boeing 757 operated by Thomas...

Poopy diapers to become patio furniture in Scotland MNN.COM› MNN BLOGGERS Matt Hickman Poopy diapers to become patio furniture in Scotland Recycling firm Knowaste partners with Zero Waste Scotland to launch a 6-month pilot scheme that will enable more than 35,000 households to recycle...

Australian student mocked after appealing 99.95 per cent exam score A student in Australia has been widely mocked after she scored 99.95 per cent for her final high school exams – the second-highest overall mark possible – and then appealing against her result. :woot: Sarah Hui...

Two Tornados 'crash in Moray Firth' Two Royal Air Force Tornado GR4 jets have crashed into the sea off the northeast coast of Scotland, it has been reported. While The RNLI say two people have been recovered safely, the location of a second aircraft and its two-man crew is still unknown...

Ok guys Today I read an article in Brunch Magazine about how your internet privacy is being Hindered and How many sites and agencies are monitoring your every online move . Now to find out How many people are tracking your internet surfing What you need is Mozilla Firefox Internet Browser On...

11 Wars That Lasted Way Longer Than They Should Have 1. Roman Republic vs. Carthaginian Republic – 2,134 years Cato the Elder before the Roman Senate. © Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis After two Punic wars Rome decided they needed one more pass at Carthage. So in 149 BC, after rousing...

Army cuts 'prove Trident fanaticism' 08 June 2012 The British government's plans to cut army numbers by 20,000 have shown a 'blind fanaticism' for retaining the UK's nuclear deterrent at the expense of regular military capability, the CND has warned. Defence Secretary Philip Hammond's 7...

Mars One – the first plan for a human settlement on Mars Mars One is the first realistic project I’ve ever encountered for gradual colonization of Mars. It has already gathered support among scientists and is searching for sponsors and… the first person to land on the red...