Baghdad, Jan 7 (IANS) Iraqi police on Saturday discovered prisons once used by the Islamic State (IS) terror group in Mosul. Federal police commander told Efe news that General Raed Shaker Jawdat discovered several prison…
Baghdad, Jan 7 (IANS) Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim arrived in Baghdad on Saturday to meet Iraqi officials in an attempt to improve bilateral relations, officials said. According to sources, Yildirim arrived on an official…
Bangkok, Jan 7 (IANS) At least 11 people were killed and one reported missing while thousands have been affected by heavy floods in Thailand, officials said on Saturday. After days of heavy rain, the central…
Washington, Jan 7 (IANS) By measuring the material along NASAs two Voyager spacecrafts future trajectories as they move through space, the Hubble space telescope is providing them the road map, scientists have reported. Along the…
Dhaka, Jan 7 (IANS) Law enforcers on Saturday cordoned off the headquarters of Bangladesh’s largest opposition party here ahead of a demonstration on Sunday. Former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) announced the…
London, Jan 7 (IANS) Regularly watching television shows, films or advertisements that sexually objectify women and degrade them can may make you a sexist person, researchers say. The findings showed that when people get habitually…
Phnom Penh, Jan 7 (IANS) Supporters of Cambodia’s ruling party gathered on Saturday to celebrate the country’s Victory Day, marking the 38th anniversary of the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. Prime Minister Hun Sen…
Washington, Jan 7 (IANS) NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered exocomets — comets outside our solar system — plunging onto a young star that resides 95 light-years from Earth. This star, called HD 172555, represents…
Tokyo, Jan 7 (IANS) Tokyo’s Governor has indicated the metropolitan government will consider shouldering the cost of temporary facilities to be built outside the capital for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Japanese officials said….
Moscow, Jan 7 (IANS) Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an “influence campaign” aimed at hurting Hillary Clinton and helping Donald Trump win in the 2016 presidential election, the US intelligence has revealed in a unclassified…
New York, Jan 7 (IANS) Gastrointestinal issues found in children with autism may be related to an increased reaction to stress, a finding that can lead to better treatment for the disorder, researchers say. Autism…
By Arun Kumar Washington, Jan 7 (IANS) The Donald would not buy it! All of Uncle Sam’s spymasters could not convince PEOTUS who would soon be POTUS that Vladimir Putin’s spooks helped him pull off…
Dhaka, Jan 7 (IANS) A fire broke out on Saturday in Bangladesh’s Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in the capital, with no immediate reports of casualties, a media report said. The fire started around…
Washington, Jan 7 (IANS) US President-elect Donald Trump has tweeted that “gross negligence” by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) allowed hackers to penetrate its servers. “Gross negligence by the Democratic National Committee allowed hacking to…
London, Jan 7 (IANS) Kidney failure patients on dialysis tend to have altered blood clots which increases their risk of dying prematurely, especially from cardiovascular causes, according to a study. The study found that these…
Washington, Jan 7 (IANS) NASA has said two of its astronauts — Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough and Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson — have completed the first of two power upgrade spacewalks at 1:55 p.m….
Beijing, Jan 7 (IANS) China has a total of 734 million 4G mobile users, and 5G commercial operations will be launched in 2020, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) announced. Wen Ku, head of…
Beijing, Jan 7 (IANS) Chinese authorities have published a draft regulation protecting minors’ rights in cyberspace that includes remedies for online bullying. The draft, published on Friday by the Legislative Affairs Office of the State…
New York, Jan 7 (IANS) Sparking a fresh controversy, anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks has threatened to make the private details public of millions of people who have ‘verified’ Twitter accounts. “We are thinking of making an…
New York, Jan 7 (IANS) Facebook has hired former NBC and CNN anchor Campbell Brown to lead its news partnership team, media reported. But the Brown job will not address the issue of fake news…