In a shocking incident, an Army veteran who landed at the Fort Lauderdale airport with a pistol in his checked baggage opened fire in the baggage area on Friday, killing five people and wounding at least eight before throwing his weapon down. The accused was identified as 26-year-old Esteban Santiago[Read More…]
A Bangladesh man dubbed the tree man because of the bark-like growth that once covered his body will soon be able to leave hospital after the treatment for one of the world’s rarest diseases, The Guardian reported. Abul Bajandar has undergone 16 surgeries to remove 5 kg of growth from[Read More…]
Researchers have discovered a cosmic one-two punch unlike anything ever seen before. Two of the most powerful phenomena in the Universe, a supermassive black hole, and the collision of giant galaxy clusters, have combined to create a stupendous cosmic particle accelerator about two billion light years from Earth Astronomers using[Read More…]
Apple Inc has removed the New York Times (NYT.N) English- and Chinese-language news applications from its iTunes store in China. The decision was taken following the request from the local authorities, said the company on Thursday. The apps said to be removed on Dec. 23 are the latest Western services[Read More…]
An Indian fisherman, just before he was to be released along with 218 others on Thursday by Pakistan as a ‘goodwill gesture’, died of heart attack in a Karachi jail, according to Gujarat Fishermen Association. Deceased Jeeva Bhagwan (37) hailed from Khan Village in Una tehsil of Gir Somnath district[Read More…]
At least six civilians were killed and 15 others injured in eastern Baghdad on Thursday in a car bomb blast claimed by Islamic State, Iraqi Police officials said. ISIS-linked Amaq news agency said a parked car loaded with explosives in the al-Obeidi area had targeted a gathering of Shi’ite Muslims.[Read More…]
A picture of a 16-month-old Rohingya boy- face down in the mud, washed up dead on the bank of a river- widely circulated in the social media echoed the iconic image of Aylan Kurdi, a Syrian refugee who was found on the Turkish coast after drowning into the Mediterranean Sea.[Read More…]
A city train in New York derailed at a downtown Brooklyn terminal during Wednesday’s morning, injuring over 100 commuters in the metropolitan area. This is second major rail accident since late September. Soon after the incident, emergency crews reached the Atlantic Terminal wherein Long Island Rail Road train went off[Read More…]
A grudge-bearing man stabbed at least 12 children with a curry knife at a kindergarten in China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The attacker “sneaked into” the school in the afternoon and stabbed children in his child’s class while the students were eating, Pingxiang City local police said. Three seriously injured[Read More…]
A new human organ has been recently found by the Irish scientists that have existed in the digestive system for hundreds of years now. Termed as the ‘mesentery’, the organ links the intestine to the abdomen. For hundreds of years, it’s been seen a fragmented structure made up of numerous[Read More…]
Armed men with links to the Philippines’ largest Muslim rebel group have stormed a prison in the south of the country, killing a guard and freeing more than a 150 inmates, authorities said. Initial reports suggested that the gunmen responsible for Wednesday’s jailbreak were a breakaway faction of the Moro[Read More…]
The Turkish authorities on Wednesday identified the gunman responsible for the attack on an elite nightclub that killed 39 people celebrating New Year, the foreign minister said. “The identity of the person responsible for the Istanbul attack has been established,” Mevlut Cavusoglu told Anadolu news agency during a televised interview.[Read More…]
Israeli forces and security guards have killed more Palestinian children in West Bank and East Jerusalem in 2016 than any other year in the last decade, a report by Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCIP) said. According to the report, Israeli forces have killed 32 Palestinian children, making 2016 deadliest year[Read More…]
A couple in the UK, lucky to be precise, narrowly avoided missing out on a New Year windfall after retrieving a winning lottery ticket worth 66,000 pounds thrown into a roadside dustbin. Joanne Joynson, 37, is now planning to wed her fiance of 15 years with that money. She said,[Read More…]
Pioneering British art critic John Berger died at 90. The influential art critic of the modern generation wrote several art criticism, novels, poetry, screenplays and many other books. His famous works included Ways of Seeing, G and A Painter of Our Time. Here are some of his quotes from the perception changing[Read More…]
Pioneering British art critic John Berger, intellectual and author whose 1972 book and the BBC series ’Ways of Seeing’ redefined the way a generation pursued art, died at his home in the Paris suburb of Antony. Berger had been ill for about a year. He was 90 years old. Berger[Read More…]
At least 60 people were killed in a violent prison riot in the Amazon jungle city of Manaus ignited by a combat between rival drug gangs, officials said on Monday. It is seen as one of the worst violence in over two decades in Brazil’s over-filled prison system. Sergio Fontes,[Read More…]
Islamic State has claimed the responsibility of the Istanbul Reina night club attack that killed at least 39 people including two Indian nationals. The terrorist group has released a statement in its Amaq News Agency website. The group claimed 150 people were killed and wounded, and described it as a[Read More…]
Union minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday tweeted that two Indians have died in the terror attack at a nightclub in Istanbul in which total 39 people have died while 65 others were injured. While one of them, she said, was Abis Rizvi, the son of former lawmaker Akhtar Hasan Rizvi,[Read More…]
A series of bomb blasts killed 29 people and wounded 50 in central Baghdad on Saturday as fighting intensified in northern part of Mosul, largest stronghold of Islamic State in the country. The explosions, blamed on two suicide bombers, happened one after another in the busy al-Sinak market. Police said[Read More…]
At least 39 people, including 16 foreigners, were killed and at least 69 wounded in an attack in a nightclub early Sunday as they were celebrating the new year, Turkey’s Interior Minister said. “We are face to face with a terror attack,” Interior minister Suleyman Soylu told reporters. Suleyman Soylu[Read More…]
At least 28 killed and over 54 injured in two blasts that exploded in a busy market in central Baghdad on Saturday. The incident took place near a car spare part shops in al-Sinak during the morning hour rush. While one blast was triggered by a suicide bomber, another was[Read More…]
Pakistan on Friday said that State Grid of China will help build a 4,000 MW power transmission line in Pakistan in a project valued at $1.5 billion. The transmission line will link north-south National Grid. An agreement on the project was signed on Thursday in Beijing between Mohammad Younus Dagha,[Read More…]
Art always had a role in conflict zone. Various art forms and creative expressions fearlessly portrayed the fury of war. A 38 year-old man from Syria is converting the destructive weapon of war into fine art pieces. Akram Abo Alfoz collects the bombs and bullets that litter the shell-ridden streets[Read More…]
The world’s highest bridge has opened to traffic in China, connecting two provinces in the mountainous southwest and reducing travel times by as much as three-quarters, local authorities said on Friday. The Beipanjiang Bridge took three years to build, cost more than $146.7 million dollars, and stretches to be 4,396[Read More…]
