Buenos Aires, May 29 (IANS/EFE) An Argentine woman suffering from leukemia used Facebook to find her father after nearly two decades without contact so that bone marrow donation tests can be performed on him, media reported. Malen Gaynor,39, resident of Buenos Aires, decided to search for her father after being hospitalised two weeks ago for cancer. […]
Madrid, May 29 (IANS/EFE) Chemists Avelino Corma Canos of Spain and Mark E. Davis and Galen D.Stucky of the US will share the 2014 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, the foundation that bestows the prizes in the name of Spain’s Crown Prince Felipe has announced. The three men are specialists in the […]
Beijing, May 29 (IANS) The Chinese yuan weakened 11 basis points to 6.1705 against the US dollar in its central parity Thursday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading System. In China’s foreign exchange spot market, the yuan is allowed to rise or fall by two percent from the central parity rate each trading day, Xinhua […]
“A few more whacks of the ice axe in the firm snow, and we stood on top,” stated Sir Edmund Hillary about his final climb – the first by mankind – to the top of the Everest, a feat accomplished exactly 61 years ago on May 29, 1953. Come 2014, the snow on the ascent […]
Los Angeles, May 29 (IANS) Fashion Designer Tom Ford’s luxury sneaker collection will go on sale in the US this autumn. The 52-year-old designer has created a selection of high and low-top models, available in leather and velvet with white rubber soles, which are set to go on sale exclusively at the Tom Ford stores in […]
Berlin, May 29 (IANS) Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk said Wednesday that his country should become a European country under the newly elected President Petro Poroshenko. Visiting Yatsenyuk was invited to a dinner by German Chancellor Angela Merkel at her Chancellery in Berlin, Xinhua quoted a statement posted on the website of the German government as […]
Kabul, May 29 (IANS) Afghan government Wednesday welcomed US president’s plan to keep about 9,800 troops after 2014 in Afghanistan but virtually withdrawing all by the end of 2016. “The United States government announced that, within a schedule, it will reduce to zero the number of its combat troops in Afghanistan. The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan […]
Washington, May 29 (IANS) Golf star Tiger Woods announced Wednesday that he would miss his second straight Major Championship, the US Open, due to back injury. “Unfortunately, I won’t be there because I’m not yet physically able to play competitive golf,” Xinhua quoted Woods as saying. Woods had surgery on his back in late March, which […]
United Nations, May 29 (IANS) The UN should play a greater role in counter-terrorism and promoting closer cooperation of the international community on the battle, a Chinese envoy to the UN said here Wednesday. “On the question of counter-terrorism, the UN should advertise a clear-cut criterion and oppose double standards in promoting the international community to […]
Los Angeles, May 29 (IANS) Actress Liv Tyler says it’s difficult to perfectly balance family and work and that one will always suffer at the expense of the other. The 36-year-old, the daughter of Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, raises 10-year-old son Milo with ex-husband Royston Langdon, reports contactmusic.com. “Perhaps I shouldn’t think this way but, from […]