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An Indian student measuring just 62.8 centimetres (less than two foot, one inch) was on Friday confirmed as the world's shortest living woman, Guinness World Records said on Friday.

Jyoti Amge took the title as she celebrated her 18th birthday with family and friends in the city of Nagpur, some 520 kilometres (320 miles) east of Mumbai in ...

An Indian student measuring just 62.8 centimetres (less than two foot, one inch) was on Friday confirmed as the world's shortest living woman, Guinness World Records said on Friday.

Jyoti Amge took the title as she celebrated her 18th birthday with family and friends in the city of Nagpur, some 520 kilometres (320 miles) east of Mumbai in ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Nintendo Co Ltd on Thursday denied a report that Shigeru Miyamoto, widely seen as the world's most influential games designer, would step down from his current position and take a smaller role in the company.

Wired magazine had quoted the 59-year-old creator of popular games franchises including Super Mario Bros and The Legend of Zelda as saying ...

(Reuters) - Greece's financial crisis could certainly use the help of a drachma -- provided it's the 2400-year-old coin that is poised to fetch $2.5 million when it is auctioned next month.

The Dekadrachm of Akragas, which was minted in Sicily and dates to 409-406 B.C., will be sold at auction on January 4 from a U.S ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - After a strong Black Friday showing, Nintendo now has to focus on maintaining the momentum for its products over the next five weeks of the crucial holiday season, the company's U.S. president told the Reuters Global Media Summit on Tuesday.

Reggie Fils-Aime, the president of Nintendo of America, said the company records 60 percent of ...

PARIS (Reuters) - French film and stage actor Alain Delon sold a thousand bottles of his wine collection on Saturday with a big Chinese buyer pushing the auction results well above pre-sale estimates.

Delon, once called "the male Brigitte Bardot" for his good looks, is one of France's best-selling film actors with Jean-Paul Belmondo and comic Louis de Funes. While ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Activision Blizzard Chief Executive Bobby Kotick told Reuters that stores may face a shortage of its new children's game this holiday season and tried to cast doubt on a rival's upcoming game that analysts say could eat into Activision's user base.

Activision, the biggest U.S. video game publisher by market capitalization, has been ...

Indian chess champion Viswanathan Anand and his Israeli rival Boris Gelfand agreed Saturday to play a $2.5-million series of matches in a historic Moscow art gallery for the 2012 world crown.

The May 10-21 series will be played inside Moscow's Tretyakov State Gallery across the Moscow River from the Kremlin and comprise 12 matches played under classic World ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - When gamers take the wraps off the new "BioShock" video game next year, they should not be surprised if parts of the game remind them of the Occupy Wall Street protests.

Ken Levine, the creative director of the Boston-based development studio Irrational Games visited the protests in Boston this month to do research for the next ...

From a randy Dominique Strauss-Kahn to a diminutive Nicolas Sarkozy, a French blogger has become an Internet hit by needling the rich and powerful with knitted dolls in sly recreations of the news.

Inspired by the sex scandal around former IMF director Strauss-Kahn, knitting fan Anna launched the blog in the northern city of Lille last May and has since ...