Wellington, April 8 (IANS) New Zealand’s privacy commissioner John Edwards has labelled Facebook as “morally bankrupt pathological liars” after the social media platform’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried to play down the Facebook livestreaming of Christchurch…
Jerusalem, April 8 (IANS) Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, Tesla and Neuralink, is in negotiations with Israels government to build tunnels in the country, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “I met a man…
London, April 8 (IANS) With just five days to go until the UK is due to leave the European Union (EU) on Friday, the opposition Labour Party has said that it expects to hold further…
Washington, April 8 (IANS) A team of NASA researchers, including an Indian-origin scientist has found the surface inside the International Space Station (ISS) is littered with microbes just like in a gym or office on…
San Francisco, April 8 (IANS) Ahead of Israel’s upcoming national elections, micro-blogging site Twitter has suspended nearly 600 suspicious Hebrew-language accounts run by a controversial Chinese religious group. The accounts suspended were amplifying political messages…
Washington, April 8 (IANS) US President Donald Trump is set to welcome his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Tuesday for the second time at the White House, the media reported. Egyptian officials are hailing…
Canberra, April 8 (IANS) More than 45 animal rights activists were arrested on Monday as coordinated protests brought Australia to a brief standstill amid calls for sweeping changes to Australia’s meat industry. Over 100 activists…
Washington, April 8 (IANS) American budget hotel chain, Motel 6, will pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit that said several of their properties in Washington state gave their guest lists to US Immigration and…
By Arul Louis New York, April 8 (IANS) Kirstjen Nielsen, the head of the US Homeland Security has quit President Donald Trump’s cabinet amid an unprecedented upheaval at the highest echelons of the government and…
Beijing, April 8 (IANS) Tourism authorities in Beijing said they were considering creating a blacklist of “uncivilised visitors” in order to curb bad behaviour, as the Chinese capital was inundated with tourists for the Tomb…
Kampala, April 8 (IANS) An American tourist and her tour guide, who were abducted in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park on April 2, have been rescued by security forces, a government spokesperson has confirmed. “Both…
Sydney, April 8 (IANS) Police in Sydney on Monday launched a search operation for a convicted double murderer who removed his electronic monitoring anklet while on parole and is now on the run. Damien Peters,…
Miami, April 8 (IANS) Scientists have caught a female python in the US state of Florida that was more than 17-feet-long, weighed 140 pounds and contained 73 developing eggs, the media reported. The snake is…
Washington, April 8 (IANS) Congressional Democrats will “never” obtain US President Donald Trump’s tax returns, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said on Sunday. “Nor should they (obtain the documents)” Mulvaney told “Fox…
Washington, April 8 (IANS) Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of Homeland Security who has become a face of President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration push, is leaving the administration, US President Donald Trump announced on Sunday afternoon….
Tripoli, April 8 (IANS) Libya’s UN-backed government says 21 people have been killed and 27 wounded in fighting near the capital, Tripoli. Earlier the UN appealed for a two-hour truce so casualties and civilians could…
London, April 8 (IANS) British Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday said that her talks with the opposition Labour Party to break the current Brexit deadlock would mean “compromise on both sides.” May, in a…
Amman, April 8 (IANS) Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov condemned the US’ presence in Syria saying it was an “unjustifiable occupation” at a press conference on Sunday. Lavrov, who is on an official visit to…
Tel Aviv, April 7 (IANS) The claim by hackers that they had broken into the database of Israeli voters, just days before the parliamentary elections, has been dismissed by Israeli officials, a media report said….
Beijing, April 7 (IANS) A restaurant in China’s capital is offering opportunities to people that are hard-of-hearing by employing a team of deaf waiters who communicate with customers aided by guide cards. With a look…