Washington, A 34-year-old Indian man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for sexually assaulting a sleeping woman on a US flight early this year. Prabhu Ramamoorthy, living in the US on a temporary work visa, was accused of abusing a 22-year-old woman seated by the window next to[Read More…]
Canberra, Australian businessman Stan Perron, who died in November at the age of 96, has left the majority of his $2.8 billion fortune to charity. The husband and father was farewelled at a funeral service on Thursday, attended both by eminent members of the community, family and friends, the Xinhua[Read More…]
Los Angeles, After slamming rapper Drake for taking underhanded shots at him, rapper Kanye has now accused him of threatening and bullying him. “Drake called trying to threaten me,” read Kanye’s first tweet, reports etonline.com. Kanye continued with a slew of tweets, some in which he referenced Pusha T’s Toronto[Read More…]
Los Angeles, Sam Mendes’ World War I drama “1917” will release on December 25, 2019, Universal Pictures has announced. Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners is producing “1917” through its DreamWorks Pictures brand. “1917” will open in limited release on Christmas Day then go wide two weeks later on Janurary 10, 2020,[Read More…]
Los Angeles, Actress and director Sondra Locke, who received a supporting actress Oscar nomination in her first movie role for “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”, is dead. She died on November 3 at 74, but the news has emerged now. The Los Angeles County Public Health Department confirmed her[Read More…]
Canberra, Dec 14 In a first an Australian body has been chosen to take over day-to-day operations at the European Space Agency’s (ESA) deep space tracking centre, it was announced on Friday. The station at New Norcia, 130 km northeast of Perth, will be maintained by the Commonwealth Scientific and[Read More…]
Washington, The US Senate voted on Thursday in favour of a bill asking the Donald Trump administration to end the military support it is providing to Saudi Arabia in the latter’s war in Yemen, a move taken amid the controversy sparked by the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in[Read More…]
Washington, Multiple institutions across the US on Thursday received emails and phone calls threatening bomb attacks, which caused evacuations and law enforcement actions. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a statement its staff were aware of the recent bomb threats made in cities around the country. “We remain in[Read More…]
Google has just released “See what was trending in 2018” and its good news for the Indian entertainment industry. Bollywood heads the first five when it comes to the top movie searches made in India’s neighbouring state of Pakistan. The list under the “Movies” category for Pakistan Google Search is[Read More…]
New Delhi: After 9 p.m. on Thursday, you should be able to watch the best Geminid meteor showers to Earth ever and Google has made a Doodle just to make you aware of what a celestial show you could miss if you do not look up at the sky at[Read More…]
Hanoi: At least 13 people were killed due to a flood in Vietnam, authorities said on Thursday. The victims were reported in five provinces of Quang Tri, Thua Thien Hue, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai and Binh Dinh, reports Xinhua news agency. The flood also damaged roughly 12,000 hectares of rice[Read More…]
Washington: China and the US are set to take action against each other as tensions escalate over trade, cyber hacking and espionage as senior American law enforcement officials identified Beijing as the most serious threat to Washington’s national security, officials said. China’s methods of non-traditional espionage, including their use of[Read More…]
We have come a long way from Victoria Beckham using bird poop in her facial. There have been a lot of bat-shit crazy trends that have come up in 2018, but this by far sounds like the craziest – almost insane. Well, bird poop sounds pretty pedestrian when you compare[Read More…]
Washington: US Democratic Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, in an effort to understand how Google search algorithms work, asked its CEO Sundar Pichai why so many pictures of President Donald Trump appear when she does a Google search for “idiot”. “Right now, if you Google the word ‘idiot’ under images, a picture[Read More…]
Washington: A 38-year-old Indian man has been charged with conspiring to smuggle six of his countrymen into the US on commercial airline flights, authorities said. Bhavin Patel was arrested at the Newark Liberty International Airport last week and was charged on Monday with one count of conspiracy and six counts[Read More…]
As they say, ‘the show must go on’, a Sports broadcaster Jo Hyun-il while broadcasting a show on Korea’s SpoTV did not flinch even a little when all of a sudden his nose started bleeding. While discussing the NBA, Jo noticed that his nose was bleeding. The blood was almost[Read More…]
The New York Police Department evacuated buildings on Facebook’s headquarters in the Silicon Valley after an anonymous bomb threat was received but hours after a sweep of the structure began there was no word of explosives found. The San Mateo bomb unit responded to the afternoon threat at the company’s campus in Menlo[Read More…]
For many of us Cyntoia Brown isn’t a household name. She is an American girl who was sentenced to jail for life for killing her rapist when she was 16. The reality show star, Kim Kardashian is not known for being an activist, but she used her influence to try and[Read More…]
Beijing: The population of Beijing, the Chinese capital with over 21 million residents, fell for the first time in 2017, despite the introduction of the two-child policy, according to state media on Tuesday. Beijing’s Population Development and Study Report said that the city’s population was 21.7 million, 22,000 less than[Read More…]
Wellington: New Zealand’s parliament on Tuesday passed a bill that will allow the medicinal use of marijuana, making it possible for patients with chronic pain to acquire the drug with a prescription. The Misuse of Drugs (Medicinal Cannabis) Amendment Bill, which passed the third and final reading in parliament and[Read More…]
London: UK’s Prime Minister Theresa May will meet European leaders and EU officials on Tuesday for talks in an attempt to salvage her Brexit deal, a day after postponing a parliamentary vote on it in the face of overwhelming opposition. May will hold talks with her Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte[Read More…]
Rome: Italian energy giant Eni announced a new oil discovery off the coast of Angola which contains 170-200 million barrels of light oil. The Afoxe-1 NFW well, which has led to the new oil discovery, is located in the south-east area of Block 15/06, 20 km west of the recent[Read More…]
New York: The popular bronze statue of the “Fearless Girl” that had been facing Wall Street’s iconic “Charging Bull” for the past 18 months, was moved to its new and permanent location in front of the New York Stock Exchange. The work of Uruguayan-born sculptor Kristen Visbal, the girl will[Read More…]
Washington: US President Donald Trump on Monday approved the National Strategy for Countering WMD Terrorism, in a bid to counter extremist groups’ attempt to use Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) against the US. According to a statement issued by the White House, the new strategy marked Trump’s “decisive step” to[Read More…]
Manila: Over 1,000 protesters marched in the Philippines capital on Monday and burned an effigy of President Rodrigo Duterte on International Human Rights Day. During the protest, civil society groups demanded an end to Duterte’s war on drugs, labour organizations asked for an increase in salaries, indigenous Lumads sought martial[Read More…]
