Inching closer to send world’s most powerful rocket to Mars, US space agency NASA on Tuesday successfully fire-tested a booster for the Space Launch System (SLS) at Orbital ATK’s test facilities in Promontory, Utah. This was the last full-scale test for the booster before SLS is ready in 2018 for the first uncrewed test flight […]
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Wednesday blamed the Islamic State (IS) for the bombing attacks that killed 36 people and injured 60 others at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport on Tuesday night, the media reported. Addressing the press at the airport, the premier said the attacks were carried out by three suicide bombers and all blew […]
The British pound has fallen sharply in trading in Asia on Monday, adding to Friday’s record one-day decline. The pound was trading at $1.3365, down almost 3 per cent from Friday’s close. Against the euro it was trading at 1.2147, down 1.4 per cent, BBC reported. On Friday the pound had its biggest one-day fall […]
Pope Francis said that the Roman Catholic Church should apologise to gay people for the way it has treated them. He told reporters on his plane returning from Armenia on Sunday that the Church had no right to judge the gay community, and should show them respect, BBC reported on Monday. “I will repeat what […]
At least 50 clerics have issued a fatwa (religious decree) that marriage with a transgender person is now lawful in Pakistan, a media report said on Monday. The fatwa, released on Sunday by the clerics affiliated with Tanzeem Ittehad-i-Ummat, said a transgender person having “visible signs of being a male” may marry a woman or […]
Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is holding a 12-point lead over her Republican rival Donald Trump as support for the latter tumbled in the past month, a poll released on Sunday showed. Clinton enjoys 51 per cent of support among Americans, up by seven points from May, compared to Trump’s support at 39 per cent, […]
Social media giant Facebook has hired a co-founder of Google’s Fibre high-speed internet project to beef up its internet connectivity team. According to tech newssite Re/Code, the social network has hired Kevin Lo as its Director of Infrastructure Connectivity and Investments to help lead Facebook’s partnerships such as Terragraph — a project to bring Wi-Fi […]
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who is currently suspended from office in an ongoing impeachment process, will provide a written statement in a corruption case where she was called as a witness. Rousseff is taking advantage of an article of the Constitution, which allows those who are called witnesses to provide written statements instead of attending […]
The Chinese government on Saturday announced that it has suspended communications with Taiwan over Taipei’s refusal to recognise the ‘1992 consensus’ of the One China policy that has guided relations between the two territories in recent years. In a statement released by Xinhua news agency, Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office said that it has not been […]
Investor panic over Britain leaving the EU spread to Wall Street as US stocks nosedived on the opening bell. The Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were down over two percent after the opening bell. “Markets are clearly shocked right now. Up until today, it’s clear they were complacent, wholly optimistic that a vote […]