Washington, Dec 27 (IANS) With the cheetah being driven out of 91 per cent of its historic range in Asia and Africa, the world’s fastest land animal could soon be lost forever unless urgent, landscape-wide…
Stockholm, Dec 27 (IANS) An unexpected migrant-propelled baby boom in Sweden has forced the “ill-prepared” Nordic nation to send many expecting mothers to neighbouring countries to deliver, media report said on Tuesday. Sweden, which like…
Seoul, Dec 27 (IANS) South Korea’s largest flag carrier Korean Air Lines Co. said that it has instructed its flight attendants to more actively consider the use of force, including tasers, during cases of in-flight…
Colombo, Dec 27 (IANS) Former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake passed away on Tuesday. He was 83. Wickremanayake was the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 2000 to 2001 and 2005 to 2010, Xinhua…
Washington, Dec 27 (IANS) The US sold weapons worth $40 billion in 2015, again making it the world’s dominant supplier of weapons globally, according to a new congressional study. The US market share of weapons…
New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday demanded that the five-year-old child, who was separated by Norwegian authorities from his Indian origin parents who have been accused of beating him…
Islamabad, Dec 27 (IANS) Former Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday will address an event commemorating slain leader Benazir Bhutto’s ninth death anniversary, his first major public appearance after returning from an 18-month self-imposed…
New York, Dec 27 (IANS) Reducing the duration of antibiotics can do more harm than good when treating children with ear infections, warns a study. When treating children between 9 and 23 months of age…
San Francisco, Dec 27 (IANS) In a yet another high-profile Twitter account compromise this year, the hacker group OurMine broke into Sony Music’s Twitter account, flashing a news that famous singer Britney Spears “is dead…
Kabul, Dec 27 (IANS) A 30-year-old woman was beheaded by Taliban militants in Afghanistan’s Sar-e-Pul province, officials said on Tuesday. Provincial governor’s spokesman Zabiullah Amani said the armed men linked with Taliban beheaded the woman…
Beijing, Dec 27 (IANS) The ninth National Assembly of Chinese Catholic Representatives, a meeting held every six years, started in Beijing on Tuesday, according to a State Administration for Religious Affairs statement. The meeting, which…
Kathmandu, Dec 27 (IANS) Nepal’s key manufacturing industries ran at an average of 48.2 per cent of their capacity in the fiscal year 2015-16 as the Himalayan nation suffered prolonged border blockade, the country’s central…
Islamabad, Dec 27 (IANS) World Bank President Jim Yong Kim called Pakistani Finance Minster Ishaq Dar on phone to discuss the Pakistan-India water dispute, an official said on Tuesday. The phone call on Monday was…
New York, Dec 27 (IANS) Breaking with its tradition of keeping research topics a secret, Apple has come out in the open, publishing its first artificial intelligence (AI) research paper that focuses on advanced image…
By Arul Louis United Nations, Dec 27 (IANS) A year of momentous changes at the UN and around the world sets the stage for a year of uncertainties at the world body. This was the…
New York, Dec 27 (IANS) A new experimental drug has shown promise in restoring cardiac function after heart failure, according to results of an early human trial. The researchers found that an infusion of the…
Jakarta, Dec 27 (IANS) An Indonesian court on Tuesday decided to proceed with the blasphemy trial of Jakarta’s governor, which could land him in jail for up to five years, officials said. A bench of…
Islamabad, Dec 27 (IANS) Twenty-four people died and dozens were hospitalised after they consumed what turned out to be toxic liquor on Christmas Eve in Pakistan’s Punjab province, the police said on Tuesday. “At least…
Moscow, Dec 27 (IANS) The black box of a Russian military plane that crashed in the Black Sea shortly after take off from Sochi, was found on Tuesday, the Defence Ministry announced. The Tupolev Tu-154…
New York, Dec 27 (IANS) Scientists have found that a single protein can lead to effective treatments for devastating neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). These disorders are triggered…