Crimea Referendum Results Show Strong Backing For Russia
The preliminary results of the much disputed Crimea referendum on Sunday whether Ukraine’s Crimea region should join Russia or become an independent state have indicated the backing for Russia. Reports released from the Crimean Electoral Commission show that ninety five percent of voters in Crimea have backed joining Russia. Many Crimeans loyal to Kiev boycotted […]
Earthquake Hits Coastal Peru
An earth quake hit the coastal city of Sechura in northern Peru on Saturday, U.S Geological Survey reports say. The 6.3 magnitude earthquake occurred at a depth of six miles. No damages and injuries were reported. The quake happened in a region that marks the boundary between two tectonic plates, where the oceanic crust of […]
15-Year-Olds in Asia Are Better Problem Solvers than In the U.S.
A new study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reveals that the children in Asian countries are better problem solvers than their European and American peers. The study conducted on more than 85,000 15-year-olds in 44 countries and economies tested their ability to explore limitations or obstacles and to understand information given to […]
Twitter To Challenge Turkish Ban through Courts
Twitter, the social media platform said in a statement on Wednesday that it had filed lawsuits in Turkish courts to challenge a ban imposed on the service by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s government last week. Twitter said that it had suspended content related to two of three court orders which were given as the legal basis for […]
Pope Francis Shakes up the Vatican
On his first anniversary as pontiff on Thursday, Pope Francis defended “slum priests” from the accusation that their advocacy for the downtrodden reflected a different, leftist church that is remote from conservative Vatican values. “The work of the priests in the slums of Buenos Aires is not ideological, it’s apostolic, and therefore forms part of […]
World Wide Web Turns Twenty Five
The World Wide Web marked its landmark anniversary last week. It was twenty five years ago, in March 1989, that Tim Berners-Lee, then a computer programmer at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, wrote a proposal to his employers for an abstract “global hypertext” system he called Mesh. He renamed the system as World […]
Hong Kong Police Dismantle ‘Biggest’ World War II Bomb
The largest bomb from World War II was discovered on a construction site in Hong Kong last Thursday late night. The bomb was found by the building workers in the Happy Valley district, near the city’s famous downtown racing track. Hong Kong police dismantled it successfully on Friday. The nearly one-ton US Navy ANM66 bomb […]
4 Killed, 16 Wounded In US Base Shooting
In a shooting at the military base named Fort Hood in Texas, four people were killed and at least sixteen injured, according to US authority reports. The incident took place on Wednesday evening. The gunman was identified as Ivan Lopez, an Iraq war veteran, who was in uniform at the time of incident and used […]
New Blood Test Could Predict Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death
New research reports from the Cardiovascular Institute (CVI) in Louisiana, United States reveals that a simple blood test could predict a person’s risk for sudden cardiac death. The study has been published online in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Samuel C Dudley, chief of cardiology at the institute, said that the new […]
Muzaffarnagar Riots: UP Government Failed To Protect Rights, Says Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of India today ruled that the Akhilesh Yadav led Uttar Pradesh Government had failed to protect the fundamental rights of the people in Muzaffarnagar. The court also blamed the UP Government for its negligence in the case of the riots and added that there was no need for any probe by a […]
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