George Garofano, who hacked the iCloud accounts of more than 250 people, including several Hollywood celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence, was sentenced to eight months in prison. Following his sentence, Garofano will also face three years of supervised release and 60 hours of community service. The sentencing comes eight months after[Read More…]
US president Donald Trump has threatened to upend the rules of global trade saying that he would pull out of the World Trade Organisation unless it adopts rules more favourable to the United States. “If they don’t shape up, I would withdraw from the WTO,” said Donald Trump while speaking[Read More…]
Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders has cancelled a scheduled Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in the capital here in November following widespread protest in Pakistan that raised concerns over security to the participants. The far-right opposition Dutch lawmaker, who for years has lived under round-the-clock protection because of death threats sparked[Read More…]
The global refugee crisis is a major challenge for the present generation, believes actress-activist Angelina Jolie, the Special Envoy for UNHCR – the UN Refugee Agency. She says no one dreams of being a refugee. Angelina has written an opinion piece for CNN, sharing her thoughts on the anguish that[Read More…]
Pope Francis said on Wednesday during his general audience on St Peter’s Square in Vatican City that divorce had become fashionable, while the ideal was that families stay together as one unit. The pope dedicated his audience to a recent trip he made to Ireland to attend the World Meeting of Families. “It’s a fashion trend, we read in[Read More…]
A billboard in New Jersey featured a photo of President Donald Trump with the caption reading – “Our leader the idiot”. The controversial billboard, owned by Out Front Media, has sparked a massive local outrage. The billboard has been up since last week in Union Township, a town of roughly[Read More…]
A 22 year old Colombian boy identified as Kalaca Skull voluntarily mutilated his nose, tongue and ears and entirely covered his face and arms with tattoos in order to look similar to a skull. Kalaca, with real name Eric Ramirez, is a tattoo artist obsessed with the skill features that[Read More…]
Taliban’s efforts to keep girls away from education in Pakistan was defeated by their very action of shooting her, says Malala Yousafzai, the world’s youngest Nobel laureate. “The result is that today millions of people all over the world are speaking out” and taking action against keeping young girls away[Read More…]
Beijing: China has welcomed the joint participation of Pakistan and India in the ongoing anti-terrorism exercise under the SCO framework. Both the countries are important countries in South Asia. The stability of India-Pakistan relations is of great significance to regional peace and stability and even world peace and development, said[Read More…]
A female giant panda’s abstract art is making to the headlines as the paintings will be sold for 490 euros ($560) each online. The cuddly panda named as Yang Yang has learned to use a brush to paint small pictures and 100 of them are being sold online to raise[Read More…]
Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Shakeel’s sons have allegedly taken a spiritual path in their lives. Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar’s son was absconding for the last one year and is discovered to become a ‘Maulana’ whereas; Dawood’s confidante Chhota Shakeel’s only son became a ‘Hafiz’. Mubashir Shaikh is the third[Read More…]
Hundreds of women, and some men, marched on Sunday through numerous cities in the US to show their breasts, demanding gender equality and to protest against the “commercialization and the double standards” which affects their lives and jobs. In its eleventh edition, the mobilization known as International Go Topless Day[Read More…]
A newly-launched restaurant in the Nepalese capital is using robots as waiters under the slogan, “where food meets technology.” The Naulo Restaurant (“naulo” means new in Nepali) operates with the help of five robots, three named Ginger and two named Ferry, designed and manufactured by Paaila Technology, a Nepali company established by six young engineers, specializing[Read More…]
The UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) has warned that the children from the Rohingya Muslim minority are facing the danger of becoming a “lost generation”. “We’re talking about risking the loss or potential loss of a generation of Rohingya children,” Unicef spokesperson Simon Ingram told the media here on Wednesday. “If[Read More…]
A sports-mad Indonesian couple named their new born daughter ‘Asian Games’ to mark her arrival as the country kicked off the world’s second-biggest multi-sport event. The little girl – full name Abidah Asian Games – was born about a month early in co-host city Palembang, just hours before Saturday’s opening[Read More…]
The US dollar declined 0.3 per cent as expected trade talks between the US and China eased market concerns. In late New York trading on Monday, the euro increased to $1.1467 from $1.1436 in the previous session, and the British pound rose to $1.2785 from $1.2720 in the previous session, Xinhua news agency reported. The Australian[Read More…]
Saudi Arabia will introduce free sleeping pods during this year’s Haj starting on Sunday. Between 18 and 24 modern hotel capsules will be offered to pilgrims to nap in for free in the coming six days, said the Haji and Mu’tamer’s Gift Charitable Association. These free nap pods — each[Read More…]
Kofi Annan, the gentle global statesman who died on Saturday, led the world body for two terms during which brought focus to development as the foundation of peace and security. During his tenure from January 1997 to December 2006 as Secretary General, he steered the UN in making development a[Read More…]
80-year-old former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan passed away on Saturday morning August 18 in Switzerland. In a statement posted on Twitter, the Kofi Annan Foundation and Mr Annan’s family announced that the Nobel Laureate passed away after a short illness. “Today we mourn the loss of a great man,[Read More…]
Cricketer-turned-politician and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman and Imran Khan has been sworn-in as the 22nd prime minister of Pakistan on Saturday. The swearing-in ceremony was held at the President House in Islamabad. Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain administered the oath to the new Pakistan Prime Minister. It must be noted that 65-year old Imran[Read More…]
Google took a new move Wednesday to increase transparency on political ads on its platform by releasing an online library of US political ads and a report on details of ad-expenditure ahead of the mid-term US elections in November this year. Google said the addition of the political advertising report[Read More…]
The Australian Senate on Wednesday appointed its first female Muslim member, Mehreen Faruqi, even as the country was caught up in a bitter row over racism. Pakistan-born Faruqi, the Greens Party MP for New South Wales, was appointed to fill a vacant seat. Her joining coincided with the row sparked[Read More…]
When someone says 15th August, what comes in your mind first? Of course, Independence Day. It is same with anyone who is Indian, whether the person lives in India or is a non residential Indian in any country. 15th August brings the memory of all that we have read, heard[Read More…]
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has come under fire over a promotional video made by the national flag carrier in collaboration with a Polish tourist who is seen doing the ‘Kiki challenge’ inside an empty aircraft. On Monday, a video went viral of Polish tourist Eva Bianka Zubeck performed the popular[Read More…]
The Nobel laureate VS Naipaul passed away at his home in London, aged 85. The British novelist VS Naipaul was most famous for his seminal 1961 novel A House for Mr Biswas. Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001 for “having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works[Read More…]
