A 39-year-old imam in Turkey has been suspended after doctors reportedly found “pieces of cucumber” in his rectum during a checkup. The imam, who is from a Central Anatolian province, was admitted to hospital last week after suffering from severe abdominal pain and bleeding, Hurriyet Daily News reported on Friday. It was only then that […]
At least six persons were killed and several others injured on Friday when Al-Shabaab ambushed two buses in Kenya’s Mandera county near the Somalia border. The two buses were heading to Mandera town from Nairobi when the militants sprayed bullets on the buses in Elwak, Xinhua news agency reported. “Preliminary investigations indicate that at least […]
The Labour Party is not overrun by anti-Semitism or other forms of racism but there is an “occasionally toxic atmosphere”, an inquiry has found. Shami Chakrabarti, the chairwoman of Labour’s inquiry into anti-Semitism, said on Thursday there was “too much clear evidence… of ignorant attitudes”, BBC reported. The inquiry followed the suspension of MP Naz […]
At least 27 people were killed and around 40 were wounded when two Taliban suicide bombers detonated their explosives in buses carrying police cadets on the western outskirts of Kabul, officials in the Ministry of Interior said. Earlier media reports said that at least 40 people were killed in the attack. The convoy transported newly […]
The toll from bombing attacks in Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport has risen to 42, with 239 others injured, BBC reported quoting Turkish officials. The attack took place on Tuesday night when three attackers arrived in a taxi and began firing at the terminal entrance. Turkish investigators are examining CCTV footage, witness statements and mobile phone video […]
Inching closer to send world’s most powerful rocket to Mars, US space agency NASA on Tuesday successfully fire-tested a booster for the Space Launch System (SLS) at Orbital ATK’s test facilities in Promontory, Utah. This was the last full-scale test for the booster before SLS is ready in 2018 for the first uncrewed test flight […]
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Wednesday blamed the Islamic State (IS) for the bombing attacks that killed 36 people and injured 60 others at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport on Tuesday night, the media reported. Addressing the press at the airport, the premier said the attacks were carried out by three suicide bombers and all blew […]
The British pound has fallen sharply in trading in Asia on Monday, adding to Friday’s record one-day decline. The pound was trading at $1.3365, down almost 3 per cent from Friday’s close. Against the euro it was trading at 1.2147, down 1.4 per cent, BBC reported. On Friday the pound had its biggest one-day fall […]
Pope Francis said that the Roman Catholic Church should apologise to gay people for the way it has treated them. He told reporters on his plane returning from Armenia on Sunday that the Church had no right to judge the gay community, and should show them respect, BBC reported on Monday. “I will repeat what […]
At least 50 clerics have issued a fatwa (religious decree) that marriage with a transgender person is now lawful in Pakistan, a media report said on Monday. The fatwa, released on Sunday by the clerics affiliated with Tanzeem Ittehad-i-Ummat, said a transgender person having “visible signs of being a male” may marry a woman or […]