March2018

Like a scene from a Hollywood caper film, a tuxedo-clad photographer foiled another man’s attempt to make off with Frances McDormand’s Oscar from an official Academy Awards after-party on Sunday, reports Reuters. Los Angeles police said...

IOM, the UN Migration Agency, last week (28/02-01/03) trained 29 Somaliland border control officials on search and rescue (SAR). Facilitated by IOM’s Africa Capacity Building Centre’s (ACBC), the training in Berbera, Somaliland included real-life examples and...

About 68 million girls face female genital mutilation between 2015 and 2030, according to new research by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. The new figures project that the current estimates of 3.9 million girls mutilated...

New Socceroos coach Bert van Marwijk named his first squad since taking the job Tuesday, with 38-year-old Tim Cahill included after the Dutchman and his scouts monitored 100 players. Van Marwijk was appointed in late January...

Initial investigations indicated the driver lost control causing the truck to swerve off the bridge and fall eight meters (26 feet) onto a dry riverbed in Gujarat state. A truck carrying a wedding party plunged off...

Priyabhashini suffered a massive cardiac arrest around 12:45 pm while undergoing treatment at the hospital. She was admitted to the hospital on February 23 with kidney and other ailments. Eminent Bangladeshi sculptor and freedom fighter Ferdousi...

The investment round was led by aMoon Fund, the investment arm of Check Point Software Technologies co-founder Marius Nacht. The round also included Hong Kong-based Horizons Ventures and Nir Kalkstein, founder of high-speed trading firm Final...

A man has died of the H1N1 flu virus in a hospital in Hungary, national news agency MTI said on Tuesday, quoting regional daily Eszak-Magyarorszag. Janos Orosz, head of intensive care in the hospital in the...

South Asia has witnessed the largest decline in child marriage worldwide in the last 10 years, as a girl’s risk of marrying before her 18th birthday has dropped by more than a third, from nearly 50...

The Long March-5B carrier rocket will undergo testing in March in preparation for the first launch mission. China will select the third batch of astronauts in the first half of this year for its manned space...