LOSANGELES: Tony Stark’s superpowers lifted blockbuster “Iron Man 3” back to the top of movie charts in the United States and Canada, beating out a strong debut over the weekend for lavish Jazz Age drama “The Great Gatsby.”Coming off a gigantic opening a week earlier, ...

  BEIJING   “Iron Man 3” topped Chinese box offices five days after opening, state media reported on Tuesday, but the modified domestic version of theHollywoodblockbuster has raised some eyebrows. The film starring Robert Downey Jr as the hero Tony Stark has earned 410 million ...

LOS ANGELES: Iron Man 3 has stormed to the top of theUSbox office, scoring the second biggest opening weekend of all time. The third instalment of the Marvel superhero franchise took $175.3m in ticket sales. It failed to beat the $207.4m record set by The Avengers last year but the impressive ...

  LOS ANGELES   “Iron Man 3” is expected to launch America’s summer blockbuster season with a bang this weekend, having already taken global box offices by storm, industry analysts say. Robert Downey Jr returns as the metal-suited Marvel superhero, in a sequel to the ...

  LOS ANGELES METRO One Marvel fan wanted to be Iron Man so much he decided to build his own costume made out of Eva foam. Unlike a lot of bespoke suits, this one turned out to be just as awesome looking as the real one. As well as having a nearly spot-on helmet, the 17-year-old also built ...

  HOLLYWOOD Metro Iron Man 3 has raked in more than The Avengers during its opening weekend at the worldwide box office. The superhero sequel, starring Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark and his alter ego Iron Man, has taken an estimated $195.3 million (£125.8 million) in 42 markets. The ...

HOLLYWOOD: Iron Man 3 will be the last in the series, according to Gwyneth Paltrow. She was asked about the prospect of returning for a fourth film.”I don’t think there’s going to be [an Iron Man 4],” she said. “I think we’re done with Iron Man.” Although ...

LOS ANGELES: After battling grandiose villains and teaming up with other superheroes, it’s back-to-basics for “Iron Man” in the third installment of the multi-million-dollar franchise featuring Robert Downey Jr. “Iron Man 3,” which opens in most of the world this ...

LONDON: Shane Black is "sure" that Robert Downey Jr will return for Iron Man 4.The Iron Man 3 director played down the actor's claim that he is uncertain about how long he will remain in the role of Tony Stark."I think he'll be back for another one," Black told the Evening Standard. "I'm sure of ...

LONDON ES - Robert Downey Jr will return for ‘Iron Man 4’.The 48-year-old actor has thus far refused to confirm if he will make another movie in the successful franchise but director Shane Black is confident Robert will return for at least one more outing as Tony Stark/Iron Man.Speaking ...

LONDONAFP  Margaret Thatcher was laid to rest on Wednesday with military pageantry and pockets of protests, in a funeral that reflected the polarising impact of Britain's longest-serving post-war prime minister.Queen Elizabeth II led mourners from the British establishment and 170 countries in ...

LONDON  - Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, the controversial Iron Lady who shaped a generation of British politics, died following a stroke on Monday at the age of 87, her spokesman said.Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister David Cameron led tributes to Britain’s first ...

MELBOURNE - Super-fit reigning champion Novak Djokovic shrugged off the exertions of his five-hour epic with Stanislas Wawrinka as he booked an Australian Open semi-final with David Ferrer on Tuesday.The world number one, showing no ill-effects from his late-night showdown 48 hours earlier, ...

Advisor to the Prime Minister on Interior Affairs, Rehman Malik on Friday said that cases would be registered against the extortionists and target killers to protect the business community in Karachi city. In a meeting with Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, they decided to take action against the ...

News of the massacre by an American soldier of 16 Afghan civilians, mostly women and children, made me reflect on the 14 wars and colonial conflicts I have covered. Horrible but not surprising! It illustrates what I call the ‘Iron Laws of Colonial Warfare’:i    Pick a ...

BUENOS AIRES  - Argentines are flocking to see “The Iron Lady”, intrigued not just by the tale of the nation’s arch-nemesis Margaret Thatcher but also her uncanny incarnation as played by Meryl Streep.It was Thatcher, the then British prime minister, who ordered troops into ...

THE Iron Lady, the Oscar-tipped film starring Meryl Streep, is criticised by John Campbell, who wrote the biography of Margaret Thatcher on which it is based. Meryl Streep is being trumpeted as a likely Oscar winner for her performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, but the film worries ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Actress Meryl Streep unveiled a poster in London on Monday promoting her upcoming big-screen portrayal of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, which one early review described as magnificent. When details of the screenplay became public over a year ago, Thatchers ...

Archaeologists believe they have discovered one of the worlds oldest brains that once belonged to a man in Iron Age Britain who was sacrificed in a ritual killing. Scientists found the cranium in a muddy pit when they were excavating a site before a new campus was to be built at the University of ...

LAHORE - A delegation led by Chairman of the Management Board of Business Area Plant Technology of ThyssenKrupp and Manager of major CSA Steel Mill Project in Brazil Dr. Niclas Muller called on Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif at Chief Ministers Secretariat here on Wednesday. Vice ...

BEIJING (AFP) - A Chinese industrial group has urged domestic steel companies to stop buying iron ore from the worlds top three miners in protest over an alleged price monopoly, state media said Monday. The China Iron and Steel Association has asked domestic steel firms and traders not to import ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia has warned Beijing not to interfere in difficult commercial iron ore price negotiations and urged China to act as a market economy. Weve been consistent in this regard. Negotiations are for the market. We will not interfere in the market, Trade Minister Simon Crean said in ...

KARACHI - The closure of Iran-Pak border after the recent suicide attack in Iran has resulted in a conflict between both the countries, halting the iron ore import for Pakistan Steel Mills. The Nation learnt that Iran has closed its borders for Pakistan, forcing the PSM to look out for other ...

Scarlett Johansson is having trouble turning her head to the left after straining her neck muscles playing the Black Widow in new movie Iron Man 2. The movie beauty injured herself during stunt scenes for the eagerly-awaited action-flick. I had such a great stunt team who were unbelievably ...

IRON dust, the gold of the oceans and rarest nutrient for most marine life, can be washed down by rivers or blown out to sea or - a surprising new study finds - float up from the sea floor. The discovery, published online Feb. 8 in Nature Geoscience, connects life at the surface to events occurring ...

Time travel Talking mice Terribly proper manners Those plucky Pevensie children, the young and improbable heroes of 2005's "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," make an impressive if somewhat repetitive return in the second instalment, "The Chronicles of Narnia: ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Marvel comics adaptation "Iron Man" kept a steely grip on the top box office slot for a second week running, industry figures showed Monday, as debutant "Speed Racer" stalled at the start line. "Iron Man," starring Robert Downey Jr as billionaire industrialist Tony Stark who ...