A man of Pakistani origin has made history as he became the first Muslim to join the New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) Emergency Services Unit. Sergeant Ali Javed became not only the first Muslim but also the first Pakistani to become a member of the elite force, NYPD Muslim Officers Society — an organisation […]
US space firm SpaceX made history on Friday as it launched an already-used Falcon 9 rocket back into space for the first time and then landed its first stage on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean. The two-stage rocket, carrying a communications satellite into orbit for Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES, blasted off at 6:37 p.m. […]
US has shifted its priorities in Syria and no longer considers the removal of President Bashar Assad as a condition for ending the civil war, a top official said on Thursday. According to a report in RT.com, US ambassador UN Nikki Haley said that after the new administration, “our priority is no longer to sit […]
The US President Donald Trump predicted a “very difficult” meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, whom he has invited to his mansion in Florida (Mar-a-Lago) in early April. “The meeting next week with China will be a very difficult one in that we can no longer have massive trade deficits and job losses. American […]
Ivanka Trump, the elder daughter of US President Donald Trump, is becoming an official government employee. She is joining her husband, Jared Kushner, as an unpaid adviser to her father in the White House, a statement said. The announcement on Wednesday amounts to the formal recognition of the value Trump places on the judgment and […]
The European Union will take stricter measures on the import of meat from Brazil, an EU official has said here. After a meeting on Wednesday with Brazilian Agriculture Minister Blairo Maggi, EU Health and Food Safety Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis said the measures might include more credentials for meat imports, Xinhua news agency reported. “We need […]
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has said that he is working to build a positive relationship with the US in face of the challenges with its vital trading partner. He said this at a summit of the Tuxtla Political Dialogue and Consensus Mechanism that gathered leaders from 10 countries of Mesoamerica in San Jose on […]
Astronaut Peggy Whitson is set to surpass Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams’ record for the most spacewalks by a female astronaut when Whitson goes on her eighth spacewalk on Thursday, NASA said. Williams has spent a total of 322 days in space on two missions. With 50 hours and 40 minutes, she also holds the record […]
The statue of the “Fearless Girl” that defies the fearsome Wall Street bull will remain in place for another year, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced. “Sometimes a work of art captures a moment in history and that’s what’s happened here,” de Blasio said on Monday in reference to Donald Trump becoming the US […]
North Korea has conducted another ballistic missile engine test, US defence officials told CNN. The officials on Monday said the latest engine trial is the third such test using similar technology. The initial assessment indicates that the engine technology could possibly be used in an eventual intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). However, it was not clear […]