Wildfire fuelled by high heat has so far spread across at least 11,000 acres in California’s Santa Clarita Valley area, fire officials said. A brush fire broke out along the northbound Antelope Valley around 2 p.m. on Friday, near Sand Canyon Road in Santa Clarita. The blaze was contained only about 10 per cent on […]
The US will send a total of 555 athletes to the Rio Olympic Games to compete in 244 medal events over 27 sports, officials said. There are 292 women on the squad and 263 men. It is the second time that the US will send more women than men to the Olympics after fielding a […]
A forensic examination showed the pilot of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 conducted a flight simulation on his home computer that closely matched the suspected route of the missing aircraft, according to a confidential report obtained by New York magazine. The confidential document from the Malaysian police investigation into the disappearance of the aircraft showed that […]
US President Barack Obama on Friday pledged support to Germany in the wake of a shooting rampage at a shopping mall in Munich that has left at least six people dead. The US has also issued an advisory for its citizens in Germany asking them to maintain a high level of vigilance and take steps […]
Turkey has issued arrest warrants for 300 members of the Presidential Guards after a failed coup attempt, CNNTurk reported Friday. It said 283 of the guards have already been arrested and that the operation is ongoing, Xinhua news agency reported. Meanwhile, over 10,000 passports have been reportedly cancelled “due to flight risk”. Latest figures reported […]
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) will decide next month whether to ban Russia from the Rio Paralympic Games. The IPC said in a statement Friday that the organisation opened suspension proceedings against Russia’s National Paralympic Committee. “The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has opened suspension proceedings against the National Paralympic Committee of Russia (NPC Russia) following […]
Brazilian scientists have identified another type of Zika-transmitting mosquito, responsible for over 1,700 cases of microcephaly in newborns in the South American country since October 2015. The public Brazilian laboratory Fundacion Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) announced that researchers found the presence of the Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito infected by the Zika virus in three out of 80 […]
Police in German city of Munich said a total of 10 people have died, including the gunman who opened fire near Olympia-Einkaufszentrum shopping mall in the Moosach district of Munich on Friday evening. Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae told reporters early Saturday that the man who killed nine people and injured several others in a […]
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump took to the stage and said that her father is the “People’s nominee” at the Day 4 of the Republican National Convention (RNC) where Donald Trump will accept the Republican nomination. Ivanka said her father has always fought for country and recognises talent. “My father is colour […]
Reacting to Twitter’s permanent ban on Milo Yiannopoulos, the tech editor at conservative news site Breitbart and one of the micro-blogging site’s most offensive users, WikiLeaks has threatened to start its own Twitter because of “cyber feudalism”. In an online exchange of words between WikiLeaks and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, WikiLeaks posted: “We will start […]