Democrat candidate and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders drew a record-breaking crowd to a park in Brooklyn as he looks to build momentum ahead of the New York primaries on Tuesday. Sanders attracted over 28,300 people on Sunday afternoon, according to the campaign and a production company helping to plan the event. This total was higher […]
The lower house of Brazil’s parliament have voted in favour of impeaching President Dilma Rousseff, a move that could see the country’s first female leader removed from power. After over five hours of voting late Sunday night, more than 342 lawmakers, the two-thirds majority required by law, have voted in favour of impeachment, CNN reported. […]
KOCHI: Mark Zuckerberg may have started the online social networking revolution and made billions of dollars from his game-changing Facebook (FB). But this maverick internet entrepreneur surely didn’t reckon with city boy Amal Augustine. Amal has ‘beaten’ the master at his own game and closed a deal with FB, trading the registration rights of maxchanzuckerberg.org […]
A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Ecuador, killing 77 people and injuring nearly 600, the authorities said on Sunday. Vice President Jorge Glas said the quake hit at 6.58 p.m. on Saturday (11.58 GMT) near the northern coastal town of Muisne. When he earlier put the death toll at 41, Glas warned that the toll […]
Nearly half the Britons think British Prime Minister David Cameron’s management of his financial affairs has been “morally repugnant” — and that all tax returns should be made public. In a ComRes poll for The Independent, 49 percent of people said the tax returns of all citizens should be published, with just 31 percent saying […]
At least 41 people were killed as a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Ecuador, the media reported on Sunday. The toll from Saturday’s earthquake has risen to 41, Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas said on Sunday. It will “unfortunately rise in the coming hours.” The government has declared a nationwide state of […]
The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) — an expandable habitat crucial for future deep space exploration — will be removed from the back of the SpaceX Dragon cargo ship on Saturday before installation on the Tranquility module that begins on early Sunday. However, the expansion of the new habitat module would not occur until late […]
US President Barack Obama hosted some of hip-hop’s biggest stars for a criminal justice reform meeting at the White House. According to a White House official, Nicki Minaj, Chance the Rapper, Alicia Keys, Wale, J. Cole, and Ludacris were among the stars who sat down with Obama and some of his top advisers to talk […]
At least 15 people were killed and 760 injured as a powerful earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter Scale hit Japan’s Kumamoto prefecture on Saturday. The quake comes close on the heels of tremors felt on Thursday that killed nine people, The Japan Times reported. Authorities reported of damage over a wide area, as reports […]
The next rotation of US Marines will begin arriving in Darwin from today to commence their fifth rotation through Northern Australia as part of the US rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region. This year’s rotation will include around 1,250 US Marines, a detachment of four Bell UH-1Y Venom helicopters and a range of equipment. The Marines […]