The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) will decide next month whether to ban Russia from the Rio Paralympic Games. The IPC said in a statement Friday that the organisation opened suspension proceedings against Russia’s National Paralympic Committee. “The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has opened suspension proceedings against the National Paralympic Committee of Russia (NPC Russia) following […]
Brazilian scientists have identified another type of Zika-transmitting mosquito, responsible for over 1,700 cases of microcephaly in newborns in the South American country since October 2015. The public Brazilian laboratory Fundacion Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) announced that researchers found the presence of the Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito infected by the Zika virus in three out of 80 […]
Police in German city of Munich said a total of 10 people have died, including the gunman who opened fire near Olympia-Einkaufszentrum shopping mall in the Moosach district of Munich on Friday evening. Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae told reporters early Saturday that the man who killed nine people and injured several others in a […]
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump took to the stage and said that her father is the “People’s nominee” at the Day 4 of the Republican National Convention (RNC) where Donald Trump will accept the Republican nomination. Ivanka said her father has always fought for country and recognises talent. “My father is colour […]
Reacting to Twitter’s permanent ban on Milo Yiannopoulos, the tech editor at conservative news site Breitbart and one of the micro-blogging site’s most offensive users, WikiLeaks has threatened to start its own Twitter because of “cyber feudalism”. In an online exchange of words between WikiLeaks and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, WikiLeaks posted: “We will start […]
An aide for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump took responsibility for copying portions of First Lady Michelle Obama’s 2008 address for Melania Trump’s convention speech on Monday. A statement distributed on Wednesday by the campaign featured an apology from Meredith McIver and an offer of resignation. The statement attributed to McIver said the Republican presidential […]
Britain will maintain close economic relations with Germany despite its intention to exit the European Union (EU), Britain’s new Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday during her visit to Germany. “Of course, our relations will change, but economic relations will remain close,” Xinhua quoted May as saying. Political developments in Turkey, the refugee issue […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday declared state of emergency for three months following a failed coup attempt on July 15. “In the national security council meeting, we decided to propose the government to declare state of emergency according to article 120 of the constitution. The cabinet has decided to declare state of emergency […]
Venezuela and Colombia have announced that the border between the two South American countries will remain closed over the next few weeks after having been briefly opened over the last weekend. The Colombian government on Tuesday said some 130,000 Venezuelans crossed the border last weekend when Venezuela allowed its citizens to walk across the Simon […]
Reading fiction might be good for your mental health but exploring inner lives of characters like Jane Eyre or Anna Karenina can form ideas about others’ emotions, motives and ideas, suggested a study. According to the study published in journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, a psychologist-novelist shows that reading or watching narratives may encourage empathy. […]