Anna Burns from Northern Ireland has won the 2018 Man Booker Prize for her third novel “Milkman”. She won the much coveted 50,000 pound award for her timely, troubles-set novel about a young woman being sexually harassed by a powerful man. Burns, 56, became the first Northern Irish winner of the award and accepted the […]
Cuba has rejected a human rights “defamatory” campaign staged at a UN event in the New York headquarters denouncing alleged political prisoners situation in the island nation. In a statement the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday said this new action was part of a “sequence of declarations” by US high-ranking officials, which showed the […]
Canada has become the second country after Uruguay to legalise possession and use of recreational cannabis. The nationwide market for cannabis opened Wednesday at midnight amid lingering questions about the impact on health, the law and public safety, the BBC reported. Shops in the province of Newfoundland, the most easterly time zone in Canada, opened […]
Missing Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi may have recorded his own death as he turned on the recording function of his Apple Watch before walking into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, a Turkish daily reported on Saturday. The moments of his “interrogation, torture and killing were audio recorded and sent to both […]
US foreign military sales totalled to $55.66 billion in 2018, a 33 per cent increase compared to the nearly $42 billion in weapons sold in 2017, the Defence Cooperation Agency announced. According to the announcement on Wednesday, is the highest annual total for military sales to foreign governments since 2012 when the US conducted upwards […]
Cost of Living For jobs, quality of life and educational opportunities, there is no better place to raise a family, work or study than NSW. However, despite NSW’s strong economy, there are large pressures on the cost of living for families. My Government has developed a number of initiatives to reduce the cost of living […]
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) with representatives from 195 countries and leading scientists opened a crucial meeting here on Monday to consider its special report on global warming. The representatives will work with the scientists from Monday to Friday to finalise the Summary for Policymakers of the report, Global Warming of 1.5 degrees […]
Indonesian authorities will begin on Monday mass burials for hundreds of people killed in an earthquake and a subsequent tsunami that hit the Sulawesi island on September 28, as search and rescue efforts continued to find more victims and survivors. The spokesperson for the National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB), Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, said the […]
The Google Doodle on Monday celebrated the centenary of renowned opthalmologist Govindappa Venkataswamy, known as ‘Dr V’ among his patients, who flocked to the Aravind Eye Hospital that he founded in Madurai. Born on this day in 1918 in Vadamalapuram, Tamil Nadu, Venkataswamy was permanently crippled by rheumatoid arthritis. However, despite his own health issues, […]
21 September, 2018: Telstra this week launched two of the year’s most anticipated smartphones: iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max. iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max are the most advanced iPhones yet and feature stunning 5.8-inch and 6.5-inch Super Retina displays[i] that offer remarkable brightness and true blacks while showing 60 percent greater dynamic range […]