London, Dec 30 (IANS) A female healthcare worker, confirmed as having Ebola after returning to Scotland from Sierra Leone Sunday night, has arrived at the Royal Free Hospital in west London for better treatment. The patient was admitted to hospital early Monday morning after feeling unwell and then was placed in isolation after returning to […]
London, Dec 30 (IANS) Two children and an adult were killed in a fire at a mobile home site in Surrey, southeastern England, police said Tuesday. Surrey Police said they received reports that a mobile home was on fire and attended to the site, off West Park Road in Newchapel, a small town in Surrey […]
Beijing, Dec 30 (IANS) Three people were sentenced to death and three others to death with two-year reprieves over a brawl that left 19 people dead and 15 missing two decades ago. The Guangyuan Intermediate People’s Court in Sichuan province issued verdicts about 41 people charged with intentional homicide and affray, Xinhua reported. Four were […]
Manila, Dec 30 (IANS) An AirAsia jet overshot the runway after landing at the Kalibo International Airport in the Philippines’ Aklan province Tuesday evening. The plane from Manila to Kalibo was carrying an undisclosed number of passengers, according to the initial report of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines at Kalibo (CAAP-Kalibo). “The passengers […]
Accra (Ghana), Dec 29 (IANS) Saudi Arabian authorities have refused to grant over-flight permits to Nigerian cargo planes carrying military equipment including armoured tanks from Pakistan which Nigerian authorities have procured in order to fight the Boko Haram rebel group, media reported Monday. It may be recalled that IANS, quoting Pakistani officials in Abuja early […]
Ramallah, Dec 29 (IANS) Israeli troops Monday shot dead a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, witnesses said. Israeli soldiers at Za’tara roadblock, south of Nablus, opened fire on a group of Palestinian teenagers, killing the 16-year-old boy, Xinhua reported citing the witnesses. Israeli Radio quoted the army as saying that […]
Athens, Dec 29 (IANS) Four bodies were found Monday by rescuers in the waters off Corfu island near the Italian ferry Norman Atlantic which has been adrift since early Sunday after it caught fire, Greek Shipping Minister Militiadis Varvitsiotis said. In statements made in parliament in Athens on the sidelines of a vote for the […]
Kiev, Dec 26 (IANS) The Ukrainian military forces are planning a fresh round of prisoner exchange with independence-seeking insurgents soon, a senior security official said here Friday. “The exchange is likely to begin as soon as tomorrow (Saturday),” Vasily Budik, an aide to the head of the Security Service of Ukraine, told reporters, adding that […]
A Russian general, inventor, military engineer and writer, Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919-2013) is best known for inventing the AK-47 assault rifle. Born in a peasant family in Kurya in the Altai region of Russia, Kalashnikov enlisted in the Russian army in 1938. In 1941, during the Second World War, he was injured in the Battle of […]
Washington, Dec 25 (IANS) An Indian American has been charged with causing brain damage and other life-threatening injuries to his four-month-old son, leaving him struggling for life in hospital. Jagsheer Singh, 28, from Queens county faces first-degree assault and child endangerment charges for allegedly inflicting the life-threatening injuries on little Nevin Janduher, the New York […]