Parliament must vote on whether the UK can start the process of leaving the European Union, the High Court has ruled. This means the government cannot trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty – beginning formal discussions with the EU – on their own. Theresa May says the referendum –[Read More…]
Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Unit (PMU) debuted a brand new war robot called Al Robot (The Robot) on November 1 against the ISIS forces currently besieged near Mosul. Designed by two brothers from Baghdad, the unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) has a remotely operated 12.7 mm cannon equipped with thermal sights and[Read More…]
Envinity Group, a Dutch tech startup has unveiled a giant outdoor vacuum cleaner designed to filter the tiniest toxic specks from the atmosphere. The vacuum cleaner is a large industrial filter about eight metres long, made of steel. Henk Boersen, a spokesman for the Envinity Group which unveiled the system[Read More…]
Iraqi Army, which entered the ISIS’ stronghold of Mosul for the first time in more than two years, has trapped its chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Fuad Hussein, chief of staff to Kurdish President said Iraqi government had information from multiple sources that “Baghdadi is there and, if he is killed,[Read More…]
Less than a month after a prince of Saudi Arabia was executed for murder, a prince of the ruling Al Saud family was given lashes in a Jeddah prison as a court-ordered punishment. The brief report in Okaz daily did not disclose the offence for which he was being punished[Read More…]
The Indian high commission in Islamabad is set to withdraw two of its officials after Pakistani media revealed their identities for allegedly being involved in subversive activities. Rajesh Agnihotri and Balbir Singh will be removed most likely before they are declared ‘persona non-grata’ by Pakistan. The two officials were identified[Read More…]
The Catholic Church’s ban on female priests will stand forever, Pope Francis said on Tuesday. Speaking to a journalist while aboard the papal plane, as the Pope flew back to Rome from Sweden, the pontiff responded to a question on whether the church might see female priests in the coming[Read More…]
What will you do to get that coveted iPhone 7? Selling your kidney is impasse now. A Ukrainian man has officially changed his name to iPhone 7 after an electronics store offered the latest Apple product to the first five people who do that. The 20-year old iPhone Sim (Seven)[Read More…]
Iraqi town of AL Fazliya is just 20 kilometres north of Mosul and just five kilometers away from the nearest ISIS position Six days ago, Islamic State was driven out of the town by Kurdish Peshmarga forces. CNN reported a story on how Al fazliya residents, whose life were made[Read More…]
Do you let your dog relieve itself openly? Have you never thought about cleaning up after it? Well, the Spanish municipality has come up with a novel way of dealing with the menace. The street cleaners of Mislata are set to collect samples of pet faeces, which will then be[Read More…]
An investigation by the BBC and The Guardian has found that British defence major Rolls-Royce made ‘secret payments’ of around 10 million pounds to an Indian defence agent to win a big contract for engines on Hawk aircrafts used by the Indian Air Force. Rolls-Royce had in 2013 admitted that[Read More…]
Unruly mobs in Bangladesh’s Brahmanbaria district vandalised and looted at least 15 temples along with hundreds of Hindu community houses. This comes in the aftermath of a social media post allegedly showing disrespect towards Islam. Police have filed two cases against more than 1,000 people over Sunday’s attack, a media[Read More…]
As Iraqi forces close in on Mosul, the jihadists’ last main bastion in the country, officials say IS has fighters deployed at or near archaeological sites. This has put Iraqi heritage sites at risk during the operation to retake Mosul from the jihadists. In 2014 IS had vandalised the Mosul museum after[Read More…]
Nepal has successfully drained part of a giant glacial lake near Mount Everest, averting risk of a disastrous flood that could have threatened thousands of lives, officials said on Monday. The Imja glacial lake, at nearly 5,000m (16,400ft) high, was in danger of flooding downstream settlements, trekking trails and bridges.[Read More…]
Imran Khan on Sunday accused Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of pursuing his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi’s interests in Pakistan as the government cracked down on the cricketer-turned-politician’s supporters with police arresting over 100 of them. “When Nawaz Sharif went to London for whatever kind of surgery, he on the hospital[Read More…]
A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck central and southern Italy Sunday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake struck around 7:40 a.m. The first report of injured came at 10:43 a.m., when EMS officials in the town of Norcia tweeted that six wounded individuals had been recovered from the[Read More…]
Preservation experts have opened for the first time in at least two centuries what Christians believe is Jesus’s tomb inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Some of the historic work was witnessed by AFP photographer Gali Tibbon who captured images of the site believed to contain the[Read More…]
Scientists have warned that killer hurricanes may have been responsible for wiping out the dinosaurs – and there are fears that they could kill humans off next. Devastating ‘hypercanes’ are believed to be far more powerful than regular hurricanes, whipping up terrifying winds with the potential to eradicate an entire[Read More…]
Russia lost its bid to retain a seat on the UN Human Rights Council amid daily accusations that the country may be guilty of war crimes for its support of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s assault on the city of Aleppo. The 193-member General Assembly on Friday elected 14 countries to[Read More…]
The United Nations for the first time is celebrating the Indian festival of lights – Diwali, at its headquarters in New York after it was declared as a non-meeting day and was recognised by the 69th session of the UN General Assembly through a resolution adopted on 29th December 2014.[Read More…]
Having lost control over certain areas of northern Aleppo to insurgents a day before, Syrian government forces launched a counteroffensive on Saturday under the cover of airstrikes, said activists and state media. Just a day before, Syrian rebels launched a broad ground attack aiming to break a weeks-long government siege[Read More…]
Republican candidate Donald Trump contrasted the economic growth of India with that of US and blamed President Barack Obama for the country’s slower economic rate. “They say it’s hard because we’re a large county. Well, India is a much larger country and they’re at 8 per cent,” Trump said Trump[Read More…]
Bob Dylan, the American singer-songwriter who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature has finally told the Swedish Academy that he will accept the prize. Despite the repeated attempts by award-givers, media-shy Dylan did not make any comment on the 8 million crown ($900,000) prize and told the British Daily,[Read More…]
Uber may have to grant its drivers basic employment rights such as the National Minimum Wage and holiday pay after it lost a London tribunal over the treatment of its drivers. The ride-hailing app has vowed to appeal the decision, which threatens to destabilise the company’s business model. The case[Read More…]
An ‘etiquette’ song and dance video made by a Japanese rail company advising women against using make-up in trains is drawing a lot of criticism and has been labeled as ‘too dictating.’ The 30-second-video released on September 16, two female commuters are seen applying mascara and lipstick while a woman[Read More…]
