By Papri Sri Raman London Going around is a British invention, not improbable in the land of the cartwheel penny, but the London Eye tops it all. It earns 25,000 pounds every day. This millennium marker was supposed to last just five years but has gone around for 17. The slowly moving Ferris Wheel takes […]
At least 58 people were killed and more than 515 others wounded on Sunday night in a mass shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas in the US state of Nevada, the worst in US history. In recent years, deadly shootings have been occurring more frequently in the United States, where over 57,000 incidents […]
The death toll from the mass shooting at a Las Vegas country music concert has increased to 59, while 527 others were injured, police said. Clark county Sheriff Joe Lombardo confirmed the latest casualty figures at a press conference on Monday night, reports Efe news Stephen Paddock, 64, opened fire with automatic weapons on some […]
The new iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus went on sale at Telstra on Friday with thousands of Australians visiting stores across the country to get hands-on with the new phones. Telstra is also offering the new Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular), which adds built-in mobile connectivity to the world’s number one watch. […]
Long thought to be a carbon sink, the world’s tropical forests now release more carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere than they remove from it, thanks to their continued deforestation and degradation, warns a new study. The study published in the journal Science, analysed the carbon density of woody live vegetation across tropical America, Africa […]
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday deplored the lack of world attention to human trafficking, a menace that he said is omnipresent. “Too often, human traffickers operate with impunity, and receive much less attention than, for instance, drug traffickers. This must change,” Guterres told a high-level meeting of the UN General Assembly. “I have […]
Libya’s interim government on Wednesday announced it would ban entry of US citizens into Libyan territory in response to a decision by Donald Trump to suspend the entry of Libyans. The eastern government called the move by the US a “serious escalation” targeting Libyans, accusing the country of placing Libyans “in the same place with […]
Israel on Wednesday fumed over a vote by the Interpol that approved the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) as a member in the international police body. Earlier in the day, Palestinian membership to the Interpol was approved by 74 to 24 votes, exceeding the two-thirds requirement of the yes-to-no ratio. The decision was made despite Israel’s […]
Scientists announced on Wednesday they have detected a fourth gravitational wave signal coming from the merger of two black holes. It’s the first time this phenomenon has been measured simultaneously by both the US-based LIGO and Italy-based Virgo detectors. Originally predicted in the early 20th century by Albert Einstein, gravitational waves — ripples in space […]
About 97 per cent of Puerto Rico’s 3.4 million residents were still without electricity, one week after Hurricane Maria slammed into the US territory, Governor Ricardo Rossello said. About half the residents do not have running water and authorities were working to get food, fuel and water “everywhere on the island”, CNN quoted Rosello as […]