Here's a job most 27-year-olds never get: starting up a new university – from scratch. Like an Athenian at the dawn of Greece, Dhawal Sharma is converting 25 acres of farmland outside New Delhi worked by man and ox for millenniums into the kind of marble-and-grass campus that launches odysseys of the mind.

But Mr. Sharma, a recent business-school graduate, is also young enough to still be in a band. He drums in a metal-rock group that plays the songs of 1970s headbangers like Judas ...

China is planning a military base in Pakistan, India Today reported, citing "a secret report prepared by the government's joint intelligence committee."

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China planning military base in Pakistan ...

Young and untested, Kim Jong Un has all but taken over North Korea's leadership.

State media hailed him 'supreme commander' and 'leader of the state, army and party' well before his late father was borne through the streets of Pyongyang today.

Nevertheless, Kim, vice-chairman of the ruling party's Central Military Commission, is expected quickly to take on additional titles to cement his place at the top.

'Kim will need the Workers' Party general secretary ...

Brazil has overtaken the UK to become the world's sixth-largest economy, according to a team of economists. The banking crash of 2008 and the subsequent recession has relegated the UK to seventh place in 2011, behind South America's largest economy, which has boomed on the back of exports to China and the far east.

Russia and India are expected to benefit from a surge in growth over the next 10 years and push the UK into eighth place. Like most economies, India is struggling with ...