Udaipur named World’s Best City

October 13th, 2009 LONDON - The world's smallest man, who turns 18 tomorrow, has revealed his birthday wish - a wife of his own stature. Khagendra Thapa Magar, from Nepal, who's just 2ft, has been enjoying a week of celebrations with family and friends.

September 29th, 2009 LONDON - In comparison to men from across the world German males are the worst lovers, according to a new survey. In a poll conducted by OnePoll.com, the Germans were voted as the poorest when it comes to making love.

September 17th, 2009 LONDON - A Turkish man has been officially named as the tallest man in the world, but he says his height often makes him unattractive to girls. The 27-year-old Sultan Kosen is 8ft 1in tall and has 11in-wide hands and 15in-wide feet.

September 8th, 2009 HONG KONG - A bank Wednesday marked its 150th anniversary in Hong Kong by launching what it claimed to be the world's first 150-dollar bank notes. Standard Chartered Plc, one of three note-issuing banks in the wealthy city of seven million, has printed 1 million of the 150-Hong-Kong-dollar notes, worth $19.35 each.

September 1st, 2009 LONDON - The world's oldest dog aged 21(147 in dog years) has died of natural causes. Chanel, a wire-haired dachshund, took its last breath at Long Island at her owner's home in Port Jefferson Station, a village 50 miles east of New York City.

July 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The world's fastest and most powerful supercomputer, named Novo-G, has become operational at the University of Florida. Novo-G gets the first part of its name from the Latin term for make anew, change, alter and the second from G for genesis.

July 20th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Delhi airport has been named among the world's worst airports for passengers to sleep in a new poll. The poll by website www.sleepinginairports.net, asked travellers to review the best and worst airports around the world for travellers needing some shut-eye.

July 20th, 2009 HAMBURG - The most intense X-ray beam of its type in the world has been generated inside a 2,300-metre circular tunnel under the German city of Hamburg, the Desy research institute said Monday. The machine, which cost 225 million euros ($297 million), was switched on in April, but unlike a light bulb it takes weeks to tune up.

July 18th, 2009 LONDON - Henry Allingham, who just last month became the world's oldest living person at 113 years, has died, his nursing home near Brighton City, UK said Saturday. Allingham had gained the status as the planet's oldest living person in June after Tomoji Tanabe of Japan died, also at the age of 113.

July 13th, 2009 Travel + Leisure readers name Udaipur best cityNEW YORK — The annual list of the "World's Best Cities" as chosen by readers of Travel + Leisure magazine was topped by a city that many Americans may not be familiar with: Udaipur, India. Last year the No.

June 24th, 2009 LONDON - Nepalese teenager Khagendra Thapa Magar is set to be named the world's smallest man, after being just two feet tall. The 17-year-old, who weighs nearly 4.5 kg, is just four months away to take the title from 2ft 5in He Ping Ping, 20, of China.

June 23rd, 2009 NEW YORK - The world's smallest car, the Peel 50, debuted Monday at Ripley's Believe it or Not museum in Times Square, New York. Designed as a "city car" for Ripley's by the London-based Peel Engineering Company, the one-seater Peel Trident is battery-operated and travels about 64 km per hour.

June 20th, 2009 LONDON - World's oldest man Henry Allingham attributes his longevity to "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women". The Brit who has spent 113 years and 14 days on this earth, is presently living at St Dunstan's care home for blind ex-service personnel, in Ovingdean, near Brighton.

June 18th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Three Australian National University researchers-Alison Booth, Andrew Leigh and Elena Vargonova - have through a study, discovered that Australian employers are racist when they are on a hiring mission. Booth, Leigh and Vargonova said that they sent out 4000 fake job applications to employers advertising on the internet for entry-level hospitality, data entry, customer service and sales jobs, changing only the racial origin of the supposed applicants' names, and they found that applicants with Chinese names fared the worst, having only a one-in-five chance of getting asked in for interviews, compared to applicants with Anglo-Saxon names whose chances exceeded one-in-three.

June 16th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A global on-line survey has revealed that Sydney is the world's friendliest city. The harbour city's cleanliness, aesthetic qualities, climate, and affordable accommodation won it the top spot.