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Indian journalist Kuldip Nayar passes away

Indian journalist Kuldip Nayar passes away

-- 2018-08-23 11:10:24

Kuldip Nayar, renowned journalist, author and human rights activist passed away on Thursday in Delhi. He was 95. Nayar, a former editor of The Indian Express, was also the author of 15 books including...

Poorly equipped Rohingya camps hit hard by monsoon

Poorly equipped Rohingya camps hit hard by monsoon

-- 2018-08-19 18:24:03

The onset of monsoon rains in Bangladesh has brought further misery to Rohingya refugees living in makeshift shelters of bamboo and plastic sheeting across the Cox's Bazar peninsula, says Medecins San...

16 ICU nurses expecting at once!

16 ICU nurses expecting at once!

-- 2018-08-19 12:47:44

Pregnancy might just be catching at a hospital in Mesa, Arizona in the US where 16 nurses are expecting at once. That's 10% of the nursing staff in the intensive care unit, and patients have started...

You cannot text your will: French court

You cannot text your will: French court

-- 2018-08-18 16:08:30

A French court has ruled that a person cannot change his or her last will and testament by text message, individual's will must be written by hand. It was ruling in a dispute over a text by a man goi...

George Washington gold coin sells for $1.7 million

George Washington gold coin sells for $1.7 million

-- 2018-08-17 10:58:42

An 18th century gold coin featuring the likeness of first US President George Washington sold for $1.7 million at auction on Thursday, with the net proceeds going to charity, the auction house said....

Scientists reveal mummification formula

Scientists reveal mummification formula

-- 2018-08-16 17:38:21

Examination of a mummy has revealed the original ancient Egyptian embalming recipe - first used to preserve bodies. A battery of forensic chemical tests carried out on a mummy that dated from 3,700-3...

9.0pc UK shoppers buy clothes only to show-off on social media

9.0pc UK shoppers buy clothes only to show-off on social media

-- 2018-08-16 16:25:21

Nearly one in ten UK shoppers (9 per cent) admit to buying clothing only to take a photo on social media according to a survey commissioned by the credit card company Barclaycard. The shoppers have a...

‘Lazy’ postman suspended for dumping 6000 letters over a decade

‘Lazy’ postman suspended for dumping 6000 letters over a decade

-- 2018-08-15 14:42:12

A postal worker in India has been suspended after he was found to not have delivered thousands of letters for more than 10 years. Ever wondered why you never heard back from that job offer, that ATM...

China woman crashes BMW during test drive outside showroom

China woman crashes BMW during test drive outside showroom

-- 2018-08-14 16:26:07

A woman in southern China’s Guangzhou City crashed a BMW during a test drive. The crash happened at the car showroom over the weekend, reports hindustantimes.com citing agencies. Video from th...

£165,000 painting turns out to be 'fake'

£165,000 painting turns out to be 'fake'

-- 2018-08-13 12:25:34

A painting bought for £165,000 has been deemed to be nearly worthless by the leading authority on the artist. 'The still life of a glass jug and pears' was thought to be the work of British art...

Tigers’ survival, exposure critical in Sundarbans

Tigers’ survival, exposure critical in Sundarbans

-- 2018-08-10 13:33:52

In the last 18 years, fifty tigers were beaten to death in the areas adjacent to the Sundarbans while over 332 people killed by the big cats during the same period as they entered localities in search...

Elderly men, missing from old-age home, found at heavy metal festival

Elderly men, missing from old-age home, found at heavy metal festival

-- 2018-08-07 21:24:26

Hordes of headbangers amassed in Germany for the world's largest heavy metal festival - among them, two elderly men who apparently left their retirement home to rock out, police said. Authorities sai...

Germany jails couple for selling son to paedophiles

Germany jails couple for selling son to paedophiles

-- 2018-08-07 15:43:31

A woman who sold her son to paedophiles on the dark net for sex has been jailed for 12 years and six months by a court in southern Germany. The Freiburg court also jailed her partner, the boy's stepf...

Japan marks 73rd anniversary of Hiroshima bombing

Japan marks 73rd anniversary of Hiroshima bombing

-- 2018-08-07 13:04:27

Japan on Monday marked the 73rd anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima during the Second World War, with the city's Mayor making a fresh call for a world without nuclear weapons through dia...

Power fault blacks out New Zealand's parliament

Power fault blacks out New Zealand's parliament

-- 2018-08-03 14:50:33

Parts of New Zealand’s capital city, Wellington, ground to a halt on Friday after a substation fault cut off power to the nation’s parliament, shut down traffic signals and plunged busines...

Pilot daughter flies with mother on her retirement day

Pilot daughter flies with mother on her retirement day

-- 2018-08-01 17:20:59

A woman, who fulfilled her air hostess mother's "dream" by piloting her final flight before retirement, says she feels "happy and overwhelmed". Ashrrita Chinchankar was first officer on the Air India...

Blue diamond harbours some greatest secrets

Blue diamond harbours some greatest secrets

-- 2018-08-01 17:01:11

  The Hope Diamond, a rare blue diamond that is one of the world's most famous jewels, has had a complicated history, passing through the hands of monarchs and bankers and heiresses and thieves...

‘Troubled’ kangaroo jumps over 7.2 feet wall before disappearing into forest

‘Troubled’ kangaroo jumps over 7.2 feet wall before disappearing into forest

-- 2018-08-01 16:52:25

A distressed kangaroo leapt over a 2.2 metre (7.2 feet) wall at a shelter on Tuesday and escaped into a forest after having been rescued from a home he had crashed into in the southern Australian city...

Study finds how perceived future  influences memories of the past

Study finds how perceived future influences memories of the past

FE Desk 2018-07-31 14:24:32

Vivid memories and emotions about things affect people’s perceptions of when they took place, a Chinese university study finds. In the research, the researchers considered another determinant -...

British couple face jail over forcing daughter to marry in BD

British couple face jail over forcing daughter to marry in BD

-- 2018-07-31 13:24:38

A couple who tricked their teenage daughter into travelling to Bangladesh in an attempt to force her to marry her first cousin have been jailed. The husband and wife, who cannot be named for legal re...

Disappeared skier identified after 64 years

Disappeared skier identified after 64 years

-- 2018-07-30 15:28:59

The body of a French skier who went missing in the Alps, near the Swiss border, more than 60 years ago has been identified his story was shared on social media, police said. The human remains, ski eq...

Int’l tiger day being celebrated

Int’l tiger day being celebrated

-- 2018-07-29 13:04:53

The International Tiger Day also known as Global Tiger Day is being celebrated in the country, as elsewhere across the globe, to raise awareness for conservation of the majestic big cat from extinctio...

Killer whale pushes dead calf for two days

Killer whale pushes dead calf for two days

-- 2018-07-28 15:57:04

A killer whale whose calf died on Tuesday shortly after birth has been spotted pushing its body in waters off the west coast of the US and Canada. The mother was last seen with the deceased calf at 7...

Cabin crew finds dead infant on board, arrests Indian woman

Cabin crew finds dead infant on board, arrests Indian woman

-- 2018-07-27 15:28:11

An Indian woman has been detained after a dead infant was found on board a domestic flight from Guwahati in north-east India to the capital Delhi. The cabin crew of the Air Asia flight found the baby...

Moving mosque welcomes Muslims in Japan

Moving mosque welcomes Muslims in Japan

-- 2018-07-26 12:39:10

A large white-and-blue truck pulls up outside a stadium in central Japan and slowly expands into a place of worship. Welcome to the Mobile Mosque. As Japan prepares to host visitors from around the...

Children fall sick after using eyeliner containing lead

Children fall sick after using eyeliner containing lead

-- 2018-07-24 11:41:03

Three children in Australia are suspected to have fallen ill from using eyeliner contaminated with lead, authorities say. The New South Wales state government issued a public health alert over the Pa...

Youngest WWII RAF pilot dies

Youngest WWII RAF pilot dies

-- 2018-07-20 16:41:41

The youngest Spitfire pilot to fly in the Battle of Britain during World War Two has died, it has been announced. Sqn Ldr Geoffrey Wellum, who was just 18 when he joined the RAF in August 1939, died...

Burberry burns £28m of unsold luxury clothes a year

Burberry burns £28m of unsold luxury clothes a year

-- 2018-07-19 15:01:18

Upmarket British fashion label Burberry destroyed more than £28 million in unwanted products this year to stop them falling into the 'grey market' and being bought by the 'wrong' people, it emer...

Musk apologises for calling British cave diver a ‘pedo’

Musk apologises for calling British cave diver a ‘pedo’

-- 2018-07-18 14:52:48

Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has apologised to a British cave diver he called a "pedo guy" in a row over the cave rescue in Thailand. He said he had "spoken in anger" after Vern Unsworth ridiculed a m...

World Cup pitch intruders get 15 days in jail

World Cup pitch intruders get 15 days in jail

-- 2018-07-17 13:59:06

A Moscow court has handed down 15-day jail sentences to four members of the Pussy Riot protest group who interrupted Sunday’s World Cup final between France and Croatia when they ran onto the pi...