Los Angeles, March 28 (IANS) The news of Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher’s forthcoming baby may have come as a surprise to many, but a source close to the couple says they had been talking of having children since a year. “They are both beyond ready to be parents,” said a source close to Kutcher. “They’ve […]
Baghdad, March 28 (IANS) At least 18 people were killed and 45 others wounded in violent attacks and clashes across Iraq Thursday, police said. A car bomb attack near a market in Baghdad’s northern district of Adhamiya killed five people and wounded 21 others. The blast also damaged several shops and cars nearby, Xinhua reported. A […]
Bangkok, March 28 (IANS/EFE) The Philippine government and the country’s largest Muslim guerrilla group signed an accord Thursday that aims to end decades of armed conflict. President Benigno Aquino and the leader of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Al Haj Ebrahim Murad, put their signatures to the document in a ceremony at Manila’s Malacañang palace. The […]
Los Angeles, March 28 (IANS) Paul Walker’s mother Cheryl and his ex-girlfriend Rebecca Soteros will reportedly fight a legal battle over the custody of the late actor’s 15-year-old daughter. Meadow, who is Paul and Rebecca’s daughter, had been living with Cheryl Walker since August, three months before Paul died. After Paul’s death, Rebecca flew from Hawaii […]
Moscow, March 28 (IANS/EFE) The dolphins and sea lions trained by the Ukrainian navy in Crimea for military operations are now in the hands of the Russian navy following the peninsula’s absorption by Russia. The Ukrainian navy resumed the programme, which was scrapped just before the collapse of the Soviet Union, in 2012 at one of […]
Nicosia, March 28 (IANS) An outgoing UN envoy in Cyprus said Thursday that the island’s economic crisis may be a blessing in disguise regarding a peace deal eluding Greek and Turkish Cypriots for many decades. Alexander Downer, a former foreign minister of Australia who served as UN secretary general’s personal advisor in Cyprus for seven years, […]
Mexico City, March 28 (IANS/EFE) Latin America’s largest solar power plant, a facility with 39 MW of generating capacity, has gone online in the northwestern Mexican state of Baja California Sur. The Aura Solar I photovoltaic power plant was inaugurated by Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto Wednesday and will supply electricity to the city of La […]
Chennai, March 27 (IANS) Filmmaker Suseenthiran, known for movies such as “Aadhalal Kadhal Seiveer”, will soon float a new production house in association with cinematographer Madhie and art director Rajeevan. “Suseenthiran, Madhie and Rajeevan who have worked together for films such as ‘Naan Mahan Alla’ and ‘Pandiya Naadu’ have decided to take their friendship to new […]
Washington, March 27 (IANS) In a path-breaking discovery, researchers have engineered a bacterium to synthesise pinene – a hydrocarbon produced by trees that could potentially replace high-energy fuels in missiles and other aerospace applications. With improvements in process efficiency, the biofuel could supplement limited supplies of petroleum-based high-energy fuel like ‘JP-10’ and might also facilitate development […]
Washington, March 27 (IANS) Are you aware of the outer edge of our solar system? Astronomers have identified a new most-distant member, bringing the region into the limelight. The distant dwarf planet, called “2012 VP113″, has been found to be beyond the known edge of the solar system. This is likely to be one of thousands […]