January2017

News Hour: Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized in Houston for an undisclosed illness, local media reported on Wednesday. Bush, 92, the oldest living former American president, was in stable condition and “doing...

News Hour: At least 33 people were killed and dozens injured on Wednesday when a vehicle packed with explosives detonated at a military camp in Mali’s northern city of Gao, a source from the United Nations’...

News Hour: Families of the victims of flight MH370 say a decision to halt the search for the Malaysian airliner that vanished in March 2014 is “irresponsible”. Voice370 said the search ought to be expanded –...

News Hour: Film writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson and his actress wife Milla Jovovich premiered the latest installment in the “Resident Evil” action horror series in Taipei on Monday. “Resident Evil: The Final Chapter” is the sixth...

News Hour: BDCyclists, a community based social network of cyclists, has broken the Guinness World Records of Longest single line of moving bicycles. According to a statement released on its official website, the longest single line...

News Hour: Tom Hardy is the epitome of British brains, brawn and beauty and the bookies are convinced he is ripe to play our next James Bond. Coyly, the 39-year old gun-swinging, smooth-talking, rule-book-burning Academy Award-winner...

News Hour: Asahi Group Holdings Ltd  is open to the possibility of more acquisitions, its chief said, even after Japan’s biggest beer maker sealed $10 billion worth of deals to buy European assets from Anheuser-Busch InBev...

News Hour: British American Tobacco has agreed a $49.4 billion takeover of U.S. rival Reynolds American Inc, creating the world’s biggest listed tobacco company after it increased an earlier offer by more than $2 billion. BAT,...

News Hour: India’s minister for women and child development says the country needs to establish a national register of sex offenders, after police arrested a convicted pedophile who confessed to abducting and raping “hundreds” of girls...

News Hour: Israeli troops on Tuesday shot dead a Palestinian who had tried to stab a soldier at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, a military spokeswoman said. “Responding to the imminent threat, forces fired...