Sex Advice for Indian Cricketers Sparks 'Masturgate'

(NEWSER) - An online cartoon detailing the sexscapades of a subcontinental MILF is driving India wild, the GlobalPost reports. Millions are drawn to the exploits of Savita Bhabhi, or “sister-in-law Savita,” even though pornography is illegal in India—or maybe because it is, analysts say. "People fantasize about a sari clad bhabhi being so raunchy and sexually liberated," one user wrote. Just what is a bhabhi, you ask? More»

Tensions still high in wake of Mumbai violence

(NEWSER) - Government officials have canceled the Indian cricket team’s tour of Pakistan, the Times of India reports, terming the trip unsafe and inappropriate in the aftermath of the Mumbai terrorist attacks for which it holds a Pakistan-based group responsible. “The government has declined permission to go ahead with the tour taking into account the recent developments in Mumbai as well as the overall circumstances prevailing at present,” an official says. More»

(NEWSER) - Reacting to the Mumbai terror attacks, India’s sports minister said today that he opposes upcoming cricket matches between India and Pakistan, the Washington Post reports. MS Gill said India's team should not take a 5-week Pakistani tour as planned while "people from their soil were indulging in mass murder in India." India has blamed a Pakistani-based terror group for mounting the strikes. More»

2 injured in New Delhi blast near Israeli embassy

(NEWSER) - An Israeli diplomat's car was battered by an explosion in New Delhi today, wounding the driver and the wife of a diplomat, the AP reports. Meanwhile, in Georgia, a driver for Israel's embassy found a package attached to his car ; police in Tbilisi discovered a grenade inside and defused it, the government says. Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to blame the attempts on Iran, which he called "the greatest exporter of terror in the world." More»

Could be the world's oldest known song: researchers

(NEWSER) - Scientists have brought back a sound that hasn't been heard in 165 million years: the song of a prehistoric cricket. Using a remarkably intact fossil of a katydid—also known as a bush cricket—researchers were able to create soundalike replicas based on the creature's wings, AFP reports. Now we can once again hear "possibly the most ancient known musical song documented to date," the study notes. More»