Onges

The Onges, one of India's most endangered tribal group whose numbers have been decimated to an alarming hundred in the Little Andaman Islands, have been blessed with a baby boy, officials said here today.

Bear

British poet Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) had a reputation for his rebellious lifestyle. While attending Trinity College, Cambridge Byron resented the rule that students were not allowed to have pet dogs, so he kept a bear as a pet.

Georgia

What we know is eyeliner goes by many different names in the eastern world. Known as ‘mesdemet’ to the ancient Egyptians, ‘kohl’ or ‘kajal’ throughout the Middle East and South Asia, eyeliner is also commonly known as ‘surma’ or ‘sorma’ in Punjabi.

Thrush

British songbird Adele has outclassed her US rivals by receiving the most number of nominations at this year's American Music Awards.

Braided

Yulia Tymoshenko made her name as the braided goddess of Ukraine’s pro-democracy Orange Revolution in 2004. She urged crowds to overturn a fixed presidential election as the first step toward making Ukraine a European nation.

Booth Girl

Mary Surratt was the first woman executed in the United States 146 years ago after a military tribunal refused to let her testify in her own defense on charges she was a co-conspirator in Abraham Lincoln’s assasination because she ran the boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators ...