Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, the first Indian-American to be running for the US presidency, is the youngest among the 17 Republican presidential aspirants for the 2016 elections. Jindal, who at the age of 36, became the youngest sitting governor in the United States when he was sworn in as Governor of Louisiana, however, would not […]

Seven decades after the U.S. military dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, effectively ending World War II, the site of the devastation remains one of the most popular tourist attractions in the country. And it appears to be getting more popular. According to local media, visits to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial […]

Social media ignores the psychological and personal effects of frequent travel, according to new literature. The fabulous life of a frequent traveler is a lie, researchers say … but it’s not like we didn’t know this already. Media — especially social media — makes the jet-setting life of a traveler seem more glamorous than it […]

Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux arrived in Bora Bora Thursday for what’s sure to be a stunning honeymoon. The couple reportedly wed in a super-private ceremony earlier this week, and they wasted no time jetting to the French Polynesia island to celebrate. Here’s just a little taste of what JenJust will experience: Bora Bora is […]

Twitter’s former CEO, Dick Costolo, plans to step down from the social network’s board of directors, according to reports. He’ll exit by the end of the year or once the company appoints a new chief, The New York Times reported, with Recode saying he’ll leave when a new CEO is found. Both reports cite anonymous […]

Samsung, LG and Google have pledged to provide monthly security updates for smartphones running the Android operating system. In July, a major bug was discovered in the software that could let hijackers access data on up to a billion phones. Manufacturers have been slow to roll out a fix because many variations of Android are […]

Here’s an annoying issue that iPhone users are all too familiar with: You’re surfing the web on a Wi-Fi connection that your device automatically hopped on – at home, in a public place, or at work – and all of a sudden the app you’re in tells you it can’t load something because you don’t […]

Ideas on how to reduce the cost of a £300m Thames flood alleviation scheme are being sought from the public, the Environment Agency has said. The River Thames scheme, which will see defence work in Berkshire and Surrey, still has a £45m shortfall. Consultation is being held in Surrey, Berkshire and London from late August. […]

NATICK, Mass. (AP) – Nathan Phillips crouched next to a manhole. He stuck his nose in a venting grate to sniff. “Yup, that’s a leak,” he said. A strong smell of natural gas rose from the sewer line. Around him, the physical evidence of gas line repair work – road patches, yellow spray paint, “bang […]

A new international study says increases in pollution and chemicals in the environment may be behind a silent epidemic of dementia cases. Published in the Surgical Neurology International journal, the study says that although dementia cases were generally seen in people in their late 60s two decades ago, now the disease is occurring in people […]

Is there anything more classic than a rockstar-model marriage? It’s the PB&J of celebrity romances, and perhaps no couple epitomizes the concept more than Patti Hansen and Keith Richards. The model and Rolling Stones guitarist have been married for 32 (!!) years, and have two daughters together. We caught up with Alexandra Richards, the youngest […]

Vanity Fair’s annual International Best Dressed List is a thing of many peculiar splendours. Like all Best Dressed Lists, it provokes howls of scorn each year, much sucking of teeth, and a great deal of everyone on both sides of the Atlantic pretending they don’t care one iota about it. But we do care. In […]

Is there anything 12-year-old dance sensation Maddie Ziegler can’t do? The answer is quite clearly ‘no’ when it comes to all things performance-based. The pint-size Pennsylvania native, whose dance videos have attracted over a billion plays on YouTube, has peeled off the blunt blonde wigs and the flesh-coloured body suits that she sports in singer-songwriter […]

Taiwan based Foxconn declared this Saturday that it is planning to invest $5 billion over five years on a new electronic manufacturing facility in Maharashtra. The formal declaration was done by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Foxconn founder Terry Gou after they signed the formal agreement sealing the deal. Gou said that the company […]

He was there in Paris when Uber was just an idea. Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp pitched him on it. He passed! Here, investor, entrepreneur and wine expert Gary Vaynerychuk tells us what he learned from that defining moment in his career. Produced by Alana Kakoyiannis. Camera by Jason Gaines. Editing by David Fang.