London, May 28 (IANS) Is your toddler struggling to learn a language? If so, using words that have repetitive syllables rather than mixed sounds may help him or her to learn language faster, a study…
Manila, May 28 (IANS) A Filipino journalist was shot dead by an unknown assailant in Manila, officials said on Saturday. The incident occurred in a street in Manila’s Quiapo district when the victim, reporter Alex…
Washington, May 28 (IANS) After NASA’s first attempt at deploying an inflatable habitat on the International Space Station – crucial for future deep space exploration – failed, the US space agency will make another attempt…
Washington, May 28 (IANS) Taking connectivity to a new high, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will speak with three astronauts currently living and working aboard the International Space Station on June 1, NASA said…
By C Uday Bhaskar US President Barack Obamas Hiroshima speech (May 27) is a very carefully crafted document and merits some scrutiny – both for what it contains and what is ostensibly excluded. Predictably, Obama…
Washington, May 28 (IANS) With the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) set to have a meeting in June, the US said that it hopes Pakistan understands India’s use of peaceful civil nuclear energy. “This is not…
Washington, May 28 (IANS) A planet which is about 1,200 light-years from Earth and in all probabilities has surface liquid water is a good prospect for a habitable world, reports researchers from University of California-Los…
Washington, May 28 (IANS) Republican Party’s likely presidential nominee Donald Trump has backed out of participating in a debate with Democrat hopeful Bernie Sanders. In a statement on Friday, Trump slammed Sanders, Democratic front-runner Hillary…
Islamabad, May 28 (IANS) Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is currently in London for medical check-up, will undergo open-heart surgery on May 31, officials said. Defence Minister Khawaja Asif confirmed the news on Friday…
Washington, May 28 (IANS) Clashes erupted in US’ San Diego city on Friday night hours after Republican Party’s likely presidential nominee Donald Trump held a rally. At least three people were arrested after protesters and…
Washington, May 28 (IANS) The Rio Olympic Games should be postponed or moved “in the name of public health” over the Zika outbreak in Brazil, more than 100 prominent doctors and professors said in an…
New York, May 28 (IANS) A vintage Second World War plane flying in the New York City area crashed in the Hudson river, officials said. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) recovered a body,…
Mexico City, May 28 (IANS) Attorneys for Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman said they filed a motion challenging the govenment’s decision to authorise his extradition to the US. Attorneys Juan Pablo Badillo Soto…
Bogota, May 28 (IANS) A Colombian rebel group freed a Spanish journalist in the Catatumbo region after she went missing on May 21. Salud Hernandez-Mora, a correspondent for Spain’s El Mundo newspaper, was released Friday…
Washington, May 28 (IANS) US aerospace company, SpaceX successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean after launching a commercial communications satellite into orbit for a…
Brussels, May 28 (IANS) The European Union (EU) here on Friday adopted additional restrictive measures against North Korea on trade, financial services, investment and transport. According to a press release issued by the Council of…
Brussels, May 28 (IANS) The European Union (EU) on Friday announced extending of EU restrictive measures against the Syrian government until June 1, 2017. The decision was in line with the Council of the EU…
Rome, May 28 (IANS) The Italian Navy said late on Friday it has recovered 45 corpses of migrants and saved 135 shipwrecked amid continuous arrivals of refugees and asylum seekers by the Mediterranean Sea. The…
Beijing, May 28 (IANS) China on Friday said it was strongly dissatisfied with a statement by G7 members, in which they expressed concern over the South China Sea. Leaders of the G7 countries — Canada,…
Tokyo, May 28 (IANS) A Korean Air passenger plane terminated take off from Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Friday after its left engine caught fire, affecting the travel of some 70,000 people with over 400 flights…