A new Guinness World Record has been set in Italy for the most ice-cream scoops balanced on a cone, with an incredible 121 balls of the frozen dessert piled on one cone, reports PTI. Dimitri Panciera, who had previously held the record for balancing the most ice cream scoops at[Read More…]
A New Zealand man of Asian descent had his passport photograph rejected when facial recognition software mistakenly registered his eyes as being closed. Richard Lee’s attempt to renew his passport was blocked after he submitted the picture to an online passport photo checker run by New Zealand’s department of internal[Read More…]
The tallest land animal, giraffe, is now at risk of extinction, biologists say. Because the giraffe population has shrunk nearly 40 percent in just 30 years, scientists put it on the official watch list of threatened and endangered species worldwide, calling it “vulnerable.” That’s two steps up the danger ladder[Read More…]
A Pakistan International Airlines flight crashed on Wednesday near Abbottabad, Pakistan, officials said. The airline said the ATR-42 aircraft was carrying 48 people – 42 passengers, five crew members and one ground engineer – when it lost contact with a control tower on its way from Chitral to Islamabad. The[Read More…]
Time magazine on Wednesday named President-elect Donald Trump its Person of the Year. “It’s a great honor. It means a lot,” Trump said in a telephone interview on NBC’s Today show. The magazine’s managing editor, Nancy Gibbs, said on the program that Democrat Hillary Clinton was the No. 2 finalist.[Read More…]
A report by Bain & Company has claimed that India is on course to become the third largest diamond market by 2020 overtaking Europe and Japan. The boom in diamond sales is being driven by the millennials, reports PTI. Currently, the largest markets for the luxury good is China, the[Read More…]
Russia is set to lodge a diplomatic protest against the note ban by the Indian government, which the country says has left its diplomats struggling for cash in Delhi, reported NDTV. Russian Government sources have told NDTV that Ambassador Alexander Kadakin is waiting for a reply to his letter to[Read More…]
Reacting to outrage over reports he and Marlon Brando conspired against actress Maria Schneider while filming a notorious rape scene in “Last Tango in Paris,” Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci said that the outcry was based on a “ridiculous misunderstanding” of what actually happened. In a statement, issued in Italian, Bertolucci[Read More…]
A Georgia man was sentenced on Monday to life in prison plus 32 years for intentionally leaving his toddler son to die inside a sweltering sport utility vehicle on a summer day. Justin Ross Harris, 35, was found guilty last month of felony murder, as well as counts of first-[Read More…]
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve was appointed as the new prime minister on Tuesday after Manuel Valls resigned to seek the Socialist nomination in the presidential election, the presidency said. “He’s a strong personality, with experience of state affairs,” said a source in the president’s entourage, commenting on the appointment[Read More…]
Flights have stopped becoming a royal affair, especially if you’re part of the ‘cattle class’. Every year, Travel + Leisure’s World’s Best Awards survey asks readers to weigh in on travel experiences from across the globe—to cast their votes for the top hotels, islands, cities, spas, and more. Readers ranked[Read More…]
A controversial video surfaced online wherein Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci can be seen admitting that he and Marlon Brando conspired to shoot a rape scene in the film ‘Last Tango In Paris’ without the consent of the lead actress Maria Schneider. The director made the confession about the film’s infamous[Read More…]
Native Americans and environmentalists celebrated the victory of ‘Standing Rock’ protest as Obama administration would halt the construction of the controversial Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL). In the most substantial victory of tribals over the Federal government, The US Army Corps of Engineers has informed the protestors that the current route[Read More…]
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key on Monday announced that he was resigning after eight years as a leader. Key, who had been expected to contest general election next year, said that he wanted to leave while on top of his game. Key said he had made sacrifice personal sacrifice[Read More…]
Renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking has warned that the human race today is facing the most dangerous times in its history. The 74 year old Cambridge professor said the world is facing huge environmental and technological challenges and need to unite to protect the humanity. We face awesome environmental challenges:[Read More…]
Hundreds of thousands of Cubans have bid a final farewell to their late revolutionary leader Fidel Castro in the city of Santiago de Cuba where his ashes will be finally laid to rest. Football legend Diego Maradona joined the funeral of his “second father,” declaring “I feel Cuban. People with[Read More…]
Syrian army advanced overnight deeper into rebel-held east Aleppo where it now controls more than half of the former rebel stronghold after a fierce assault that has sparked an international outcry. Tens of thousands of civilians have fled eastern neighbourhoods of the city since the assault in mid-November. The government[Read More…]
At least 32 people died in an explosion at a coal mine in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The explosion took place on Saturday at Baoma Mining Co Ltd in Yuanbaoshan district in the city of Chifeng, Xinhua news agency reported. According to the report, there were a total[Read More…]
With an aim to tackle dogs’ poop that remains a key problem in most French cities and towns as the owners let their pets to foul pavements, a controversial new DNA database will be prepared. The database will help trace the owner of the dogs who foul the pavement. Robert[Read More…]
The Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest coral system off the coast of Australia, is at a high risk of being included in UNESCO’s ‘World Heritage in Danger’ list, an official said on Friday. Canberra last year narrowly avoided the UN body putting the site on its endangered list and[Read More…]
Bolivian authorities have suspended the license of charter airline Lamia Bolivia whose plane crashed in Columbia killing 75 people, including players from Brazil’s Chapecoence Football club. Management of Bolivian aviation authority was also replaced to ensure a transparent probe, The Guardian reported. Primary investigation revealed that the fuel reserves were[Read More…]
It may take as little as six seconds for hackers to guess your credit or debit card number, expiry date and security code, say scientists who were able to circumvent all security features meant to protect online payments from fraud. Exposing the flaws in the VISA payment system, researchers from[Read More…]
US president-elect Donald Trump has named General James Mattis, a former marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, as his defence secretary. Mattis was an outspoken critic of Obama administration, especially on its policy towards Iran. “We are going to appoint Mad Dog Mattis as our secretary of defence,” Trump[Read More…]
The icy temperatures in parts of the Saudi Arabia have covered its desert sand with powdery snow. With the temperatures dropping below freezing, Saudis are reacting with a healthy dosage of humor, and even a few snowmen. Actually, the frigid temperatures and extensive snow is a sudden treat for Saudi[Read More…]
China has been urged by the Indian government to reverse its technical hold, which is co-sponsored by several prominent countries, to get Masood Azhar designated as a terrorist by the UN. Minister of State for External Affairs MJ Akbar said on Thursday was giving a written reply to a question[Read More…]
