Taronga is thrilled to welcome two tiny Squirrel Monkeys to its vibrant group. The little primates can be spotted by keen eyed-visitors clinging to their mothers’ backs like tiny backpacks while their mothers leap and scurry around the trees of the Amazonia exhibit. The infants are just weeks old, with the eldest born 23 November […]
Paris, As negotiations grind down to the last day on Friday, the hopes for an agreement seemed to be stuck on one major point-money. Unless the developed countries come out with specific commitment, the climate change conference may not yield an important agreement, say developing countries. “Hollow promises and hollow slogans wonÂ’t work,” Indian Environment, […]
Paris, The goal of capping the global warming to 2 degrees Centigrade may be giving way to demands for the ceiling to be fixed at 1.5 degrees. The island countries have raised the demand for a lower cap, saying they stand to lose if the global temperature rises by 2 degrees. Some scientists have predicted […]
Washington, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump sent shock waves through the political establishment with a call to bar Muslims from entering the US until lawmakers figure out what is going on. “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out […]
Ankara, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country will find alternatives to Russian energy as tensions remain high over Ankara’s downing of a Moscow warplane. “Russia is Turkey’s biggest natural gas supplier but it is not the only one,” Xinhua quoted Erdogan as saying on Saturday. Turkey is heavily dependent on foreign oil and […]
London, British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said on Saturday that the deployment of Typhoons and two further Tornados would double the number of British fighter jets taking the fight against the Islamic State militant group. IS terrorists have again been struck by British Royal Air Force aircraft, with Typhoon fighters jets used for the first […]
Washington, US President Barack Obama will address the nation on Sunday on steps to fight terrorism in the wake of California shooting attack, the White House said. Obama will provide an update on the ongoing investigation into Wednesday’s attack in Californian city of San Bernardino in which two shooters killed 14 people and injured 21 […]
Islamabad, The Afghan Taliban supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour said in an audio message that he was alive and safe after Afghanistan officials claimed that Mansour was killed in a scuffle in Pakistan. “There is no truth in the rumours that I was either injured or killed in the infighting at Pakistan’s Kuchlak area. This […]
Islamabad, Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour has reportedly died and Taliban has appointed Moulavi Haibatullah Akhunzada as the new caretaker chief, Xinhua quoted Pakistani TV “Channel 24” as saying on Friday. According to the reports, Mansour succumbed to the injuries he sustained on Wednesday in a gunfight following a harsh argument during a meeting […]
Islamabad, Pakistan early Wednesday hanged four convicted terrorists linked to last December’s massacre at an army school which left more than 150 people dead, mostly school children. The convicts were sentenced to death by a military court and are the first to be hanged in relation to the attack. Taliban militants stormed the army run […]