NEW YORK - In a remote corner of rural Java, a blacksmith and his family were astounded last week to learn that the American woman who helped save them from poverty 26 years ago was Ann Dunham, an anthropologist better known as the late mother of US President Barack Obama.

BHUBANESWAR - State-run telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) will expand its third-generation (3G) network across Orissa by the year-end, a senior company official said Sunday.

LONDON - A British man has been tagged "The Sperminator" for getting twelve girls pregnant after wooing them on social networking site Facebook.