Democrat Senator Al Franken has officially submitted his resignation after being pressured late last year to step down in the face of sexual misconduct allegations, the media reported. “I am grateful to Minnesotans for giving me the chance to serve our state and our nation, and I am proud to have worked on their behalf,” […]
Facebook has replaced Twitter to livestream Golden Globes’ red carpet pre-show slated for January 7. In 2017, Twitter scored the rights to livestream the red carpet show. “The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) announced the two-hour event would be exclusively available on the Golden Globes Facebook page, starting from 6 p.m. ET on Sunday, January […]
A Canadian man who was held captive by the Taliban in Afghanistan for five years with his wife, has been arrested after he was charged with 15 criminal offences, according to his lawyer. Joshua Boyle and his American wife, Caitlan Coleman, returned to Canada in October 2017 with their three children, reports CNN. The charges […]
US President Donald Trump will go all out to cut off aid to Pakistan if it continues to back terrorists, US Permanent Representative Nikki Haley has warned. “The President is willing to go to great lengths to stop all funding for Pakistan if they continue to harbour terrorism,” she told reporters here on Tuesday. “The […]
Pakistan’s central bank has allowed the Chinese yuan to be used for bilateral trade and investment activities, ensuring that imports, exports and financing transactions can be denominated in the Chinese currency. In a statement late Tuesday, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) stated that the Chinese yuan was an approved foreign currency for denominating foreign […]
The Chinese Embassy here on Tuesday confirmed that an earthquake in Tibet last year was the reason behind the turbidity of the waters of river Brahmaputra which originates as the Yarlung Tsangpo in China. “According to the investigations by relevant departments of China, a 6.9-magnitude earthquake stuck Milin county of Nyingchi city in Tibet at […]
fter facing widespread criticism for admitting that it deliberately slows down ageing iPhone models, Apple has formally apologised to the global iPhone community. “We know that some of you feel Apple has let you down. We apologise,” Apple said in a statement late on Thursday. Apple has also reduced the price of an out-of-warranty iPhone […]
A US university professor who received death threats after posting several controversial tweets has said that he was resigning because the year-long harassment has made his situation “unsustainable”. George Ciccariello-Maher, a professor of politics and global studies at the Drexel University, Philadelphia, had been teaching his class remotely via video conference after being put on […]
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has been publicly banished from Facebook and Instagram because of US sanctions, a media report said. The US Treasury Department on Wednesday had sanctioned Kadyrov and four other Russian officials for human rights violations. Until this week, the Chechen strongman, who has led the semi-autonomous Caucasus enclave since 2007, was seen […]
At least 12 persons were reported dead in a fire that raged through a New York City apartment in the Bronx area, the US media reported. More than 170 firefighters were on the scene of the huge blaze late on Thursday that also saw more than a dozen critical injuries, authorities said. The deadly blaze […]