Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) facility in Chile have reported the first-ever sighting of water snow line around a young star. A violent outburst by the young star V883 Orionis has given astronomers their first view of a water “snowline” in a protoplanetary disk – the transition point around the star where […]
Pizza Hut has announced a new social ordering platform or “chatbot” which will allow conversational ordering of pizzas and other menu items on Facebook Messenger and Twitter. The platform, which will be available across Pizza Hut social media accounts from August, will debut at the 2016 Venturebeat MobileBeat Conference in San Francisco with a demo […]
The Lebanese parliament failed for the 42nd time to elect a new president due to lack of the constitutionally required quorum. Speaker Nabih Berri on Wednesday called for a new session on August 8, Xinhua news agency reported. Lebanon has been without a president since the term of former President Michel Suleiman ended on May […]
The White House said on Wednesday the US had sent additional military personnel to South Sudan to boost security of its embassy in the country. “The first of these additional personnel, approximately 47 individuals, arrived in South Sudan on July 12 supported by military aircraft,” said US President Barack Obama in a letter to the […]
Shares of Japanese video games giant Nintendo soared on Thursday by 16 per cent at the Tokyo Stock Exchange due to the stupendous success of its new smartphone augmented reality game, ‘Pokemon Go’. The shares of the Kyoto-based company reached $244 during the first half of the trading day at the Tokyo exchange where investors […]
Theresa May devoted most of her first hours as Britain’s Prime Minister on Wednesday to naming the key members of the team that will have the task of implementing voters’ decision to leave the European Union. She appointed Former Mayor of London Boris Johnson as the country’s new Foreign Secretary. Until now a back-bencher, the […]
The micro-blogging website Twitter and Bloomberg Media have signed a deal to live stream several media company’s TV news shows on Twitter platform. The partnership includes streaming rights shows like “Bloomberg West”, “What’d You Miss?” and “With All Due Respect”, along with the network’s daily stock market coverage. Although the amount of the deal was […]
Incumbent Jeremy Corbyn is entitled to be on the ballot in the Labour Party leadership election, the National Executive Committee of Britain’s main opposition formation decided on Tuesday. Corbyn’s opponents insisted that to be included on the ballot, he would need backing from at least 51 Labour Party members of the British Parliament or the […]
The US Capitol complex was briefly placed on lockdown on Tuesday after reports of a possible active shooter around the complex. According to police, the Capitol Hill and all buildings in the Capitol complex were placed on lockdown around 4:20 p.m. local time while police were checking reports that a suspect with a gun appeared […]
The victims of the Paris attacks last year, intended to file charges against the French government, their lawyer has said. Maitre Samia Maktouf, a lawyer defending 17 victims of Paris terror attacks on November 13 last year that left about 130 people dead and over 250 injured, on Tuesday said her clients intended to file […]