US President Barack Obama on Wednesday at a CNN presidential town hall, said that ‘Islamic terrorism’ is a sort of manufactured term and added that terrorist organisations like Al Qaeda or ISIL have perverted and distorted and tried to claim the mantle of Islam for an excuse for basically barbarism and[Read More…]
Dan Brown, the author of Da Vinci Code has announced that his next Robert Langdon thriller entitled ‘Origin’ will be released in the UK on September 26, 2017, priced at £20. It will also be available as an e-book and an audio book. The publisher said it would be featuring[Read More…]
According to China’s state-run news agency, at least 33 people are missing after rains from Typhoon Megi triggered landslides in two villages in China’s eastern Zhejiang province on Wednesday. Twenty seven of the victims are from Sucun village where homes were swept away, the other six were from Baofeng village.[Read More…]
A day after India announced its decision of not attending the 19th SAARC summit in Islamabad in November, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan have also pulled out of the summit. All the three countries blame Pakistan for the current atmosphere of terror and held that it was not fit for hosting[Read More…]
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton took a dig at Donald Trump saying the race to the White House is real business and not “reality TV”. “This is not reality TV. This is real. It’s as real as it gets. So we’re going to get the economy working for everybody, not[Read More…]
Pushing calls towards global isolation of Pakistan, Bangladesh has said the United Nations should declare Pakistan a “terrorist state” underlining India’s argument that Islamabad should be isolated in the global community as a nation that exports terror to rest of world. “For the first time in the history of SAARC,[Read More…]
In yet another setback for Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan on Wednesday pulled out of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) Summit in Islamabad. Bangladesh said it was unable to participate in the summit because of “growing interference in internal affairs of Bangladesh by one country”. News reports[Read More…]
Customs officers at an Austrian airport were left shocked after pulling over a suspicious looking passenger and discovered she was carrying her dead husband’s intestines. The woman who was travelling from Morocco to Graz airport in Austria was carrying body parts of her dead husband, said officials. She had kept[Read More…]
An Indian-origin lawyer named Nathan Desai who was apparently sporting Nazi symbol shot at 9 people in US’ Houston city, before he was killed by police. All victims have thankfully survived but one person was critically wounded and five others have been hospitalised. The police said that Desai was having[Read More…]
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won the first presidential debate, according to a new CNN/ORC poll. The poll of debate watchers put Clinton at 62 per cent while Republican rival Donald Trump lost by 27 per cent in Monday night’s debate held at the Hofstra University, New York. During the debate[Read More…]
In July, French authorities had asked their Swiss counterparts to provide client information of banking giant UBS for international administrative assistance in May, reports French daily Le Parisien. The demand concerns former and current clients living in France, based on data from 2006 to 2008. Le Parisien on Monday published[Read More…]
The UAE has updated its Federal Medical Liability Law, according to which sex change and cloning are now prohibited in the country. Penalties for violations incurred by doctors include imprisonment starting from four years up to 10 years and/or a fine starting from Dh10,000 and going up to Dh500,000. The[Read More…]
A petition demanding the ban on exporting electronic voting machines and biometric machines from India has been filed in the Lahore high court. Advocate Azhar Siddique has filed a writ petition on behalf of a citizen, and said the Pakistan Election Commission (ECP) opened bidding to acquire the electronic voting[Read More…]
At least three people were killed and an unknown number wounded late on Friday during a shooting at a mall in the state of Washington, with the suspect still on the run, police said. Washington State Patrol District 7 spokesman Sergeant Mark Francis described the suspect in the shooting at[Read More…]
North Korea’s foreign minister has told the United Nations that “going nuclear” is his country’s only way to defend itself and vowed to further bolster its nuclear military forces. Speaking to the General Assembly, Ri Yong-ho on Friday said his country will “continue to take measures to strengthen its national[Read More…]
Yahoo on Thursday reported the largest data breach in history which will affect at least 500 million user accounts. Being cited as one of the largest, the web giant called on customers to change their passwords and institute other protective measures. This breach can have huge negative impacts on the[Read More…]
Cyber thieves who don’t face drought of new ideas to exploit people on cyber space have now come up with a new ‘educational grant’ phishing mail scam. According financial website Money Saving Expert cyber thieves are targeting students from renowned universities and luring them into revealing sensitive bank details. For instance,[Read More…]
Britain’s foreign intelligence service MI6 is going to recruit around 1000 spies. This will be one of the biggest expansions since the Cold War as MI6 seeks to harness new technology. MI6 will see its numbers increase around 3,500 by 2020 from around 2,500. MI6 which does not disclose its[Read More…]
More than 42 people have drowned after a migrant boat capsized off the Egyptian coast on Wednesday. Ferrying around 600 passengers, the boat capsized off the coast of Kafr al-Sheikh and around 150 people have been rescued till now, officials said. This incident comes after the head of the EU’s[Read More…]
The second night of protests over police shooting in Charlotte on Wednesday, ended with one person being shot, said city officials. The civilian, who was not identified, is in critical condition and on life support, the city tweeted; adding that the person was shot by another civilian. North Carolina Governor[Read More…]
North Korea, like many countries, has its own country code top-level domain name. This means any Web address that ends with “.kp” is linked to the notoriously isolated nation, much like addresses that end “.de” are linked to Germany and “.jp” are linked to Japan. What’s unusual, however, is how[Read More…]
A rocket fired by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) at US forces in Iraq may have carried a chemical agent, a US defence official said on Wednesday. If confirmed, it would be the first recorded chemical attack on US troops since the militant group overran parts of[Read More…]
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday asked nations engaged in “proxy wars” to end them, warning that if communities are not allowed to co-exist, the “members of extremism will continue to burn” causing sufferings to countless human beings and export of extremism overseas. In his eighth and final address to[Read More…]
According to a Facebook post from John F Kennedy’s niece, Kathleen Kennedy, former President George H W Bush is going to vote for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Kathleen, who is the former lieutenant governor of Maryland, posted a photograph on Facebook with a caption ‘The President told me he[Read More…]
More than forty per cent of young singletons in Japan are virgins, according to a new study that highlights concerns about the country’s demographic challenges. Japan already suffers from the world’s oldest population and a shrinking birthrate, with the government struggling to incentivise marriage and parenthood. Now a survey of[Read More…]