In its bid to stop Google employees from leaving the company and begin their own ventures, Indian-born top executive Sundar Pichai has announced the company plans to set up a startup incubator within Google. According to Forbes, the incubator, dubbed ‘Area 120’, is a new approach – part incubator and part new take on the […]
Support for gay marriage in the US has reached a new record high with 61 percent Americans saying that same-sex unions should be recognised by the law as valid, a poll revealed. According to the poll issued by research company Gallup on Thursday, this is the highest rate recorded in relative since 1996. US public […]
A translation mistake of EgyptAir’s press release about finding wreckage of the missing flight MS804 has caused misunderstanding, a source from EgyptAir told Xinhua. An EgyptAir source said the Arabic version of a press statement on the “possibility of finding parts of the missing airplane” was mistakenly translated into English by EgyptAir’s official Facebook page, […]
Two Chinese J-11 tactical jets carried out an “unsafe” intercept of a US EP-3 reconnaissance aircraft that was conducting a routine mission in over the South China Sea, a US defence official said. The Chinese jets came within 50 feet of the US aircraft at one point, the official told CNN. The incident took place […]
Russia is being forced to look for ways to neutralise threats to its national security due to deployment of the NATO anti-missile shield in Europe, President Vladimir Putin said after the alliance launched a missile defence site in Romania. “Now, after the deployment of those anti-missile system elements, we’ll be forced to think about neutralizing […]
President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said friendship between India and New Zealand will continue to strengthen. “Friendship between two countries will continue to strengthen in the years to come to mutual benefit of our peoples,” President Mukherjee said in a tweet on his visit to New Zealand. Mukherjee visited the War Memorial Museum at New […]
A police officer was killed and 13 people were injured on Sunday in an explosion near the main police station in the Turkish city of Gaziantep. The blast hit the southern city, 10 km from the Syrian border, at about 9.30 a.m. Nine policemen and four civilians were injured in the suspected car bomb attack, […]
South Korea’s exports slid 11.2 percent in April compared to the same period last year, the government announced on Sunday. Goods sales overseas were worth $41 billion, according to data supplied by the country’s ministry of trade, industry and energy. South Korean imports, meanwhile, fell 14.9 percent year-on-year to stand at $32.2 billion, bringing the […]
US President Barack Obama ended his final White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday night with what was the ‘coolest’ exit by a president in history when he said, “Obama out”, dropped the mic and walked away from the podium. Hundreds of well-known journalists, politicians, and celebrities attended the dinner, which was held at the Washington […]
Cambodia’s passenger train services resumed regular operations between capital Phnom Penh and southwestern Sihanoukville on Saturday after a 14-year hiatus. In a bid to promote the country’s railways, Prime Minister Hun Sen boarded the first train, which ran on the 266-km railroad from the capital to the coastal province, Xinhua news agency reported. John Guiry, […]