August2016

News Hour: Volvo Car Corporation acquired the Sixth Swedish National Pension Fund shares in Volvofinans Bank AB. Volvo Car Corporation and the sixth AP Fund signed an agreement on December 28th 2015 to acquire the Fund’s 40% stake...

News Hour: On 17 August 1966, the Volvo 144 was presented in the midst of an ongoing manhunt. With this new model series, Volvo could develop into a considerably bigger car maker. In eight years, no...

News Hour: One of the most enthralling questions that we often find ourselves asking is that whether there is life beyond Earth or are we just alone in this ever-expanding massive Universe? Often times, it is...

News Hour: Tiger Woods Former coach Sean Foley, who failed to lead Woods to a major victory, said he’s glad his former employer decided to take the year off and rest his back after undergoing two...

News Hour: Louisiana faced epic flooding on Monday, with seven people killed and thousands evacuated to emergency shelters after waterways in the southern part of the state overflowed their banks, reports BSS. Some areas have received...

News Hour: A safari park employee in Japan died on Tuesday after being attacked by a bear which had somehow climbed into her car, local officials and police said, reports BSS. An Asian black bear was...

News Hour: A mentally ill man from Germany seriously wounded two passengers in a knife attack on a regional train in western Austria on Tuesday, police said, ruling out a terrorist act, reports BSS. The 60-year-old...

News Hour: Russian warplanes on Tuesday flew a bombing run from an Iranian airstrip against jihadist groups in war-torn Syria, the defence ministry said — the first time Moscow has reported using an Iranian air base,...

News Hour: Twenty-five Palestinians were wounded in clashes with Israeli soldiers conducting searches in a refugee camp in the southern West Bank on Tuesday, Red Crescent medics said. Some of the wounded had been hit by...

News Hour: IOM’s regional office for Southern Africa is this week hosting a three-day Migration Dialogue for Southern Africa (MIDSA) conference in Gaborone, Botswana. The conference, which started today (16/8), is in partnership with the Government...