October2016

News Hour: Ford Motor Company Fund is bringing the Ford Driving Dreams initiative to students in the Detroit area. Ford Fund, in collaboration with First Book, is donating 10,000 new books to kindergarten through elementary school...

News Hour: The UN Security Council on Thursday unanimously backed Antonio Guterres, the former prime minister of Portugal who was the UN’s refugee chief for a decade, to be the next secretary-general. During a closed-door meeting,...

News Hour: Indian soldiers on Thursday killed three suspected militants who tried to attack an army base in Indian Kashmir, officers said, the latest incident to have hiked tensions with archrival Pakistan. The heavily armed militants,...

News Hour: At least 29 Syrian rebels were killed in a blast at a border crossing with Turkey on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Britain-based monitoring group said it was unclear what...

News Hour: Traffic jams are expected this evening in Delhi on account of Rahul Gandhi returning to the capital after a tour of Uttar Pradesh ahead of next year’s election. At mid-day, Mr Gandhi, 45, was...

News Hour: Cash incentives helped increase exercise levels at 6 months, but not enough to benefit health, and 90% of participants stopped using the devices once incentives stopped Regularly using an activity tracker (or pedometer) that...

News Hour: Psoriasis is a common, non-contagious, autoimmune disease that affects up to 3% of the world’s population.Novartis presented new findings from the largest global survey to date of people with psoriasis, showing many do not...

News Hour: Police in India say they have arrested 70 call-centre workers on suspicion of tricking American citizens into sending them money by posing as US tax officials. A total of 772 workers were arrested earlier...

News Hour: Polish lawmakers have withdrawn draft legislation that would introduce a near-total ban on abortion in a vote that marks the first major domestic setback for the ruling conservatives after massive street protests. The ruling...

News Hour: The Kuwaiti government agreed to compensate citizens for hiking petrol prices in a plan to “partially liberalise” the fuel subsidy, parliament speaker Marzouk al-Ghanem said on Wednesday. Those holding driver’s licences would be compensated...