March2018

FIFA are expected to rubber-stamp video assistant referee technology (VAR) for this summer’s World Cup despite lingering opposition from within and outside football. Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, will oversee the governing body’s meeting in...

From Washington to Los Angeles, students walked out of US classrooms Wednesday in the largest grassroots protest against gun violence seen in years, demanding action one month to the day after a deadly shooting rampage at...

The U.S. House of Representatives approved spending more money on metal detectors, locks and other school security measures on Wednesday, but took no steps to tighten gun control laws a month after a Florida high school...

Britain will invest 48 million pounds ($67 million) in a new chemical warfare defense center at its Porton Down military research laboratory, Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson said on Thursday. Porton Down was the facility where British...

Hundreds of Syrians fled a rebel-held town in eastern Ghouta on Thursday and crossed by foot to government-held positions, as the army pressed its advance into the last major opposition stronghold near Damascus, a Reuters witness...

The unspoken compact that has anchored the relationship between China’s government and its people – stay out of politics and we’ll help you prosper – is being tested like never before by President Xi Jinping’s move...

Walt Disney said on Wednesday it had created a new unit for its streaming video and international businesses as the company retools its traditional media operation for a world rapidly embracing online video, reports Reuters. Kevin...

It does not matter if British officials boycott the FIFA Football World Cup, which will be hosted by Russia, Interfax news agency cited Russian Football Union Vice President Nikita Simonyan as saying on Wednesday. “That’s their...

With the last major outbreak happening decades ago, most MSF staff had only ever seen diphtheria in textbooks. MSF medical team leader Carla Pla describes the challenges of treating the disease amongst the refugee settlements of southeastern Bangladesh. MSF has treated more than 4,280 people for diphtheria in the Cox’s Bazar district as of 31 January,...

The US-Bangla Airlines authorities today temporarily suspended its Dhaka-Kathmandu-Dhaka flight operation two days after one of its aircrafts crashed in Kathmandu Tribhuvan International airport, leaving at least 51 dead. “We have decided to suspend our flight...