Florida Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency as a white nationalist is set to give a speech later this week at the University of Florida. “This executive order is an additional step to ensure that the University of Florida and the entire community is prepared so everyone can stay safe,” Scott said on […]
SoftBank’s multi-billion-dollar investment into ridesharing app Uber will be finalised “very likely in the next week” Uber board member Arianna Huffington has said. Uber’s board voted earlier in October to approve the Japanese tech conglomerate’s cash infusion, which would add six more board seats and annul super-voting shares held by former CEO Travis Kalanick among […]
After a US Senator wrote to Apple CEO Tim Cook, conveying concerns on users’ security with Face ID biometric security in iPhone X, Apple has responded to him, detailing Face ID’s built-in security features. In September, Senator Al Franken (Democrat-Minnesota) had asked several questions related to Apple’s implementation of the Face ID technology. Franken had […]
The US Army has fired a two-star General who allegedly sent flirty messages to the wife of an enlisted soldier at his post in Italy. Major General Joseph Harrington was sacked due to “a loss of confidence in his ability to command”, Xinhua quoted an army spokesman as saying in a statement. The statement said […]
In his first TV appearance since he took office on May 7, French President Emmanuel Macron has defended his controversial reform which is criticised by the discontent as favouring the rich. “I’m the president of all the French,” Macron told TF1 television in response to growing critics over his pro-liberal roadmap, Xinhua reported. “We’re taking […]
US President Donald Trump’s recent anti-Iran speech was under the influence of lobbyists from Israel and Saudi Arabia, Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said. It was clear that the Zionist regime of Israel and some countries like Saudi Arabia have played a major role in writing Trump’s speech and guiding him, Larijani was quoted as […]
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin still poses a significant threat to Washington, the media reported. “Keep an eye on him, because he’s not done,” Clinton told CNN in an interview on Sunday. Clinton cited the intelligence community’s assessment in January that Putin directly ordered a Russian […]
Two key Islamic State (IS)-affiliated leaders engaged in a standoff with Philippines forces in the conflict-ridden Marawi city have been killed, a top official said on Monday. According to Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, the victims were identified as Isnilon Hapilon, who was declared the terror group’s emir for Southeast Asia, and Omar Maute, a leader […]
NASA believes a ninth planet does exist that might be 10 times the mass of Earth and 20 times farther from the Sun than Neptune, debunking myths that the planet, dubbed ‘Nibiru’ by doomsayers, will end of the world. Konstantin Batygin, a planetary astrophysicist at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, whose team is […]
An AirAsia flight was forced to turn back to the Australian city of Perth after the plane suddenly dropped 20,000 feet, officials said on Monday. Flight QZ535, bound for the Indonesian island of Bali, changed course about 25 minutes after take-off on Sunday night, reports the BBC. The Airbus A320, carrying 151 people, landed safely […]