Striking a blow against the UN Human Rights Council’s credibility, the US is withdrawing from the “hypocritical” organisation, US Permanent Representative Nikki Haley has announced. “For too long, the Human Rights Council has been a protector of human rights abusers and a cesspool of political bias,” Haley said on Tuesday. UN Human Rights Commissioner Zeid […]
While you are busy giving Alexa commands to play your favourite song or book an Uber, the intelligent virtual assistant from Amazon is helping the US space agency organise daily tasks while making sense of intrinsic data-sets. According to Tom Soderstrom, IT Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), voice as […]
Stock markets fell around the world on Tuesday in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs threat to China. The Dow Jones was down more than 300 points, or 1.6 per cent, at the open after Asian and European markets fell sharply earlier, reports BBC. Trump has threatened to put tariffs on an […]
Russia may have significantly upgraded a nuclear weapons storage bunker in Kaliningrad, a Russian territory between Poland and the Baltics, as tensions between Moscow and the West continue to rise, according to a new report. On Monday, the Washington-based Federation of American Scientists (FAS) published aerial photographs that the group says show the facility in […]
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is on a two-day visit to China from Tuesday, his third such trip to the country since March this year. Kim’s visit, announced by the Chinese state media, comes just a week after his historic meet with US Donald Trump in Singapore where the two leaders pledged to denuclearise the […]
US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on an additional $200 billion worth of Chinese goods shipped to Washington unless Beijing agrees to a host of sweeping trade concessions, media reports said. In a statement on Monday, Trump said he had US Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer, to draw up a list of […]
Heir to the British throne Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, are on a two-day visit in Ireland, reported local media RTE. The royal couple arrived in Ireland on Thursday morning and paid a visit to the country’s southern city of Cork under the company of the Irish Deputy Prime Minister […]
Chicago has selected Boring Company, founded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, to build a high-speed underground transportation system connecting the city’s main international airport and downtown area, its Mayor announced. The Boring Company will design, build, finance, operate and maintain the so-called Chicago Express Loop, a high-speed public transportation system in which passengers are transported […]
Facebook’s Public Policy and Communications Head Elliot Schrage who came under fire for shaping highly-criticised public reaction to various scandals including the 2016 US presidential election has decided to quit. Schrage joined Facebook in 2008 after leaving his job in the same role at Google. “After more than a decade at Facebook, I’ve decided it’s […]
Although the percentage of women in leadership roles at Google has increased from 20.8 to 25.5 per cent in the last four years, women still make up only 30.9 per cent of its global workforce while men 69.1 per cent, the tech giant has revealed. In its annual diversity report released on Thursday, Google said […]