A baby girl from Lewisville, Texas, has been “born” twice after she was taken out of her mother’s womb for 20 minutes for life-saving surgery. At 16 weeks pregnant, Margaret Hawkins Boemer discovered her daughter, Lynlee Hope, had a tumour on her spine. The mass, known as a sacrococcygeal teratoma,[Read More…]
Paul Betty became the first American writer to win the Man Booker Prize for the Sellout, a stinging satire on US racial politics that judges drawn comparison to Mark Twain and Jonathan Swift. Historian Amanda Forman, who chaired this year’s judging panel, called it a “novel for our times”, particularly[Read More…]
US-based owners of Volkswagen vehicles affected by the manufacturer’s infamous emissions scandal will now be able to sell their cars back to dealerships, after the company was granted final approval on its proposed $14.7 billion compensation deal. US District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco signed off on Volkswagen’s (VW)[Read More…]
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack on police academy in Quetta that killed more than 60 policemen and wounded more than 100 on Tuesday. “Militants came directly into our barrack. They just barged in and started firing point blank. We started screaming and running around in the barrack,”[Read More…]
Oxford University Press has announced that its new edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare will credit Christopher Marlowe as a co-author on the three Henry VI plays. This is the first time a major publishing house has formally named Marlowe as a co-author. There has been controversy about the authorship[Read More…]
At least four people were killed on a ride at Australia’s biggest theme park, the organisation said on Tuesday. The incident took place at Dreamworld, on the Gold Coast tourist district in Queensland state, police said. Local media said the accident happened on a water-based ride known as the “Thunder[Read More…]
Winter is here, but the same can not be said about the Game of Thrones season 7. But a series of leaked pictures from the shoot reveal a very important meeting. Spoiler alert! A meeting between Dragon Queen, Daenerys Targaryen and King in the North, Jon Snow is shown and[Read More…]
A Police Training Centre was attacked by militants in Quetta, Pakistan late on Monday night. More than 60 cadets besides three militants have died and 118 people are injured, making it one of the deadliest strikes in the country this year. The Balochistan Police College which is 20 km from the[Read More…]
In a memorandum to Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, London-based representatives of political parties in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) have urged the Pakistani government to reconsider policies on Kashmir and stop the export of extremism, terrorism. “(We) Note with regret that despite our suffering and great human and economic loss[Read More…]
On October 21 Wall Street Journal editor Gerard Baker sent out an email to his staff, announcing a round of voluntary buyouts. In response, Barron’s president Ed Finn-whose publication, like the WSJ, is owned by News Corp.’s Dow Jones-emailed back asking what the terms of the buyout would mean for[Read More…]
Astronaut Scott Kelly, who has the distinction of having spent a year in the space, has said that the level of pollution in China and India is shocking. “Seeing places like China and India, and the pollution that exists there almost all the time is quite shocking,” Kelly said in[Read More…]
The failed attempt of Nobel officials in knocking on Bob Dylan’s door was the major headline last week. Dylan was playing at a concert in Las Vegas on the night when the Nobel was announced. He ended the set with a cover of Frank Sinatra’s ‘Why Try to Change Me[Read More…]
China has officially confirmed the sale of 8 attack submarines to Pakistan may be deployed in the Arabian Sea and challenge India’s interests in the Indian Ocean Region. Talks for the deal, estimated at more than $5 billion, were announced from Islamabad earlier this year, but China was yet to[Read More…]
After Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte announced his decision of severing all ties with US and declared that the “country’s long-term alliance with the United States was over,”officials have gone into damage control mode. As per the CNN, Philippines Trade Minister Ramon Lopez said that the country “would not stop trade and[Read More…]
Pop star Madonna at Amy Schumer’s performance in New York on Tuesday night promised the crowd sexual favors in exchange for their support of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. “If you vote for Hillary Clinton, I will give you a blowjob. OK?” the 58-year-old singer told an audience at New York’s Madison[Read More…]
The third and final US presidential debate ended on Wednesday with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton facing each other in Las Vegas. Moderated by Fox News’ Chris Wallace, it covered several issues, including abortion, immigration and the relationship with Russia. Surprisingly, Donald Trump has been claiming for[Read More…]
In a scathing attack on the call for boycott of Chinese goods on Indian social media, Chinese media said that Indian products cannot compete with those of China. In an acerbic op-ed, state-run Global Times says New Delhi can only “bark” and do nothing about the growing trade deficit between[Read More…]
In perhaps the most absurd cases of divorce, a groom in UAE divorced his bride after he saw her face without cosmetics for the first time. Accusing her of deceiving him by wearing a lot of make-up, fake eyelashes and coloured contacts, the enraged man ended his relationship with his 24-year-old wife. The[Read More…]
The relationship between India and Donald Trump has been weird from day 1. In India we saw a right-wing group celebrating Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s birthday in a pompous way. They performed ‘havans’ for his well-being and for his nomination. This time in USA, the ‘Hindu’ supporters of the[Read More…]
Iraqi Prime Minister on Monday announced the start of military operations to liberate the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State militants. The push to retake Mosul will be the biggest military operation in Iraq since American troops left in 2011. The city fell to IS fighters during a lightning[Read More…]
Iraq’s Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, on Monday said that the nation’s forces have launched a campaign to retake Mosul, the self-declared capital of the IS. Artillery began firing on the city early on Monday, in a long-awaited assault from Kurdish Peshmerga, Iraqi government and allied forces. Tanks are also moving[Read More…]
At least 30 people were killed in Pakistan when two buses collided in southern Punjab province, police said on Monday. Images from the crash site showed a bus on its side with its windows shattered, and another bus with its roof partly caved in. Officials said the buses collided at[Read More…]
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has termed India as a “key strategic ally.” He also said that if voted to power India and the US would become “best friends” and have a “phenomenal future” together. “We are going to have a phenomenal future together,” Trump said at an event by[Read More…]
The Chinese media on Saturday denounced the West’s ‘bad mouthing’ of the BRICS nations, saying disagreements among the members are ‘minor’ and cooperation is the norm. “BRICS countries themselves are different in many aspects. China and India have lived with territorial disputes, but the geopolitical contention between them is mostly[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi called out to India’s ‘old friend’ Russia in a joint address at the sidelines of the BRICS Summit before holding wide-ranging talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which covered the entire expanse of bilateral engagement. The engagement witnessed 16 agreements being signed between the two countries.[Read More…]