Some 6,000 teen abortion cases were reported in Vietnam annually, according to the General Office for Population and Family Planning (GOPFP) on Monday. In 2015, Vietnam had a total of around 280,000 abortion cases, 2 per cent of which were by teenage moms, state-run Tien Phong daily online newspaper quoted the office as saying. However, […]
Countries in the Middle East on Friday condemned the terror attack in Nice that killed at least 84 people, and expressed solidarity with France. A truck rammed into a crowd celebrating the French national day in Nice on Thursday night, Xinhua news agency quoted French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve as saying on Friday. The truck […]
A terrorist sped a rented truck through a crowd of thousands enjoying Bastille Day celebrations in this French city, crushing 84 people and injuring some 150, a third of who were battling for life. As global condemnation poured in, French President Francois Hollande flew to Nice, met the wounded and said the trucker struck men, […]
Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican US Presidential nominee, announced on Friday he had chosen Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate. “I am pleased to announce that I have chosen Governor Mike Pence as my Vice Presidential running mate,” wrote Trump on his Twitter account. The pick of Pence as running mate came […]
Presumptive Democratic candidate for the US presidency Hillary Clinton on Friday said that the choice of Indiana Governor Mike Pence to be Donald Trump’s running mate is further evidence of the Republican presidential candidate’s “dangerous plan for America”. “If you had any doubts about Trump sticking with his dangerous plan for America, say hello to […]
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) facility in Chile have reported the first-ever sighting of water snow line around a young star. A violent outburst by the young star V883 Orionis has given astronomers their first view of a water “snowline” in a protoplanetary disk – the transition point around the star where […]
Pizza Hut has announced a new social ordering platform or “chatbot” which will allow conversational ordering of pizzas and other menu items on Facebook Messenger and Twitter. The platform, which will be available across Pizza Hut social media accounts from August, will debut at the 2016 Venturebeat MobileBeat Conference in San Francisco with a demo […]
The Lebanese parliament failed for the 42nd time to elect a new president due to lack of the constitutionally required quorum. Speaker Nabih Berri on Wednesday called for a new session on August 8, Xinhua news agency reported. Lebanon has been without a president since the term of former President Michel Suleiman ended on May […]
The White House said on Wednesday the US had sent additional military personnel to South Sudan to boost security of its embassy in the country. “The first of these additional personnel, approximately 47 individuals, arrived in South Sudan on July 12 supported by military aircraft,” said US President Barack Obama in a letter to the […]
Shares of Japanese video games giant Nintendo soared on Thursday by 16 per cent at the Tokyo Stock Exchange due to the stupendous success of its new smartphone augmented reality game, ‘Pokemon Go’. The shares of the Kyoto-based company reached $244 during the first half of the trading day at the Tokyo exchange where investors […]