The Brazilian government has announced increased security at the Rio International Airport ahead of the upcoming Olympic Games slated to begin on August 5. Some 1,200 security personnel have already started training and will be stationed in the airport beginning next week. Simulations of situations with bombs were held earlier on Tuesday, with the participation […]
Actor-comedian Bill Murray will make a cameo on the HBO comedy series “Vice-Principals”. The actor, who most recently voiced the fun and frolicking Baloo in “The Jungle Book”, is also winner of a BAFTA, a Golden Globe and two Emmy awards for his work over the span of 40 years. Show creator Dannie McBride spoke […]
Former model Melania Trump delivered an uplifting, positive speech on Monday night on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, portraying her husband Donald Trump as the candidate ready to lead the nation. But first, the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee made an unusual appearance in order to introduce her. The lights […]
Social networking giant Facebook has partnered with the US television network ABC for a non-stop live streaming of both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. The Republican National Convention started in Cleveland, Ohio on Monday night and will run till Thursday while the Democratic National Convention is set for July 25-28 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Not […]
Security forces in Rio de Janeiro have successfully completed two large-scale simulation exercises to prepare for next month’s Olympic Games. An operation aimed at averting a terrorist threat was carried out at Deodoro – home to the second largest Games venue cluster – on Friday and Saturday. On Sunday, a full-rehearsal of the security plan […]
North Korea on Tuesday test-fired three short-range ballistic missiles in a show of force against the decision between South Korea and the US to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) in Seoul. Yonhap news agency quoted South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) as saying that North Korea fired off three ballistic missiles, […]
Republicans on Monday prepared to kick off their convention at Cleveland to crown Donald Trump as the party’s presidential nominee as the nation reeled from another outburst of violence. True to form, Trump himself provided the first surprise of the week, announcing on Monday morning that he was headed for Cleveland to watch his wife […]
A former African-American US Marine killed three police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on his birthday, in an incident similar the July 5 Dallas attacks, where another former black soldier killed five policemen. On Sunday, a man identified as Gavin Long of Kansas city went on a shooting rampage on his 29th birthday that left […]
A Hawaiian Airlines plane was forced to return to Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Monday and make an emergency landing after the pilot noticed a hydraulic fluid indicator was reading unusually low. The plane returned to Tokyo’s intentional hub shortly after taking off just late Sunday night, Xinhua news agency reported. None of the 293 passengers […]
As we wait for Juno’s first close-up images of Jupiter on August 27, NASA continues to explore our solar system to help answer fundamental questions about how we came to be, where we are going and whether we are alone in the universe. “Juno is the latest example of the extraordinary science we have to […]