The US economy added 126,000 jobs in March, falling short of economists’ expectation of 245,000 and the unemployment rate held steady at 5.5 percent, the latest sign the labour market might be slowing down, the Labor Department reported Friday. This increase in employment marked the first time the monthly job growth was below the key […]
Easter’s here and it’s time for a sumptous breakfast of delectable appam, chicken stew as well as scrumptious duck and egg roast. Then there is steamed banana, a generous piece of luscious cake followed by piping hot coffee. If there’s one thing that has not changed over time, it is the Easter delicacies. During traditional […]
At least 15 people were killed and over 60 injured by armed assailants who forced their way into a university in northeastern Kenya and opened fire at students early Thursday even as authorities said 280 students were rescued while 535 still remained unaccounted for. Kenya Red Cross officials said at least 65 people, including two […]
A couple in south China’s Guangdong province have been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in jail for selling their own baby, in the latest case of child-trafficking in the country. The No.2 Zhongshan People’s Court in Zhongshan city also fined the couple 10,000 yuan ($1,599) each, Xinhua news agency reported. According to a court statement issued […]
Nigeria’s newly elected president, Major General Muhammadu Buhari who defeated incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 election, is an alumnus of the Indian Defence Services Staff College in Wellington from where he graduated in 1973. Maj. Gen. Buhari became the president-elect after President Jonathan conceded defeat in the election and put in a call […]
Indian-American writer Akhil Sharma has won the second annual Folio prize for fiction for a novel which charts an emigrant family’s heart-wrenching search for the “American dream”, said a media report. Sharma said after winning the 40,000-pound (nearly $60,000) prize that writing the novel, which took 13 years to complete, was a frustrating and difficult […]
Tokyo’s Shibuya ward on Tuesday approved the recognition of same-sex unions, making it the first in Japan to take a step toward legal marriage equality. The ordinance in this regard, approved by the local assembly, will take effect on Wednesday and will permit the district to issue certificates to same-sex couples, an important step in […]
In a suspected racial attack, police in Britain have come across footage posted online in which a Sikh man is seen being brutally beaten up in Birmingham city Broad Street, a media report said on Tuesday. “We are aware of a video posted on the internet which appears to show a man being assaulted on […]
Islamic State (IS) militants have slain 30 civilians, among them women and children, in horrific executions in central Syria, a Britain-based watchdog said on Tuesday. The civilians were shot, burned or beheaded, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights’ director Rami Abdel Rahman. The victims included Alawite Sunni and Ismaili Shia Muslims and the […]
An auction house in Uruguay’s capital Montevideo hopes to get at least $40,000 for an iPad used by Pope Francis, with the proceeds to be donated to a Catholic high school in the northwestern city of Paysandu. “There is interest not only in our country,” auctioneer Juan Castells said. “Recently, we received calls from around […]