Wellington, Three little blue penguins have been stolen from their burrow in New Zealand. One of the penguins died in the process and was left behind, but two were taken away, conservation officials said. Two men were seen using a crowbar to prise rocks off the burrow of the smallest breed of penguin, in Hawkes […]
Paris, Jan 27 A mural painted by the British anonymous street artist Banksy on a fire door at the Bataclan theatre in Paris, has been stolen, the media reported. “It’s a deep sadness that moves us today,” the theatre said in a tweet on Saturday. “Banksy’s work, a symbol of remembrance and belonging to everyone […]
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit near the Pacific island nation of Fiji just before 8:00 local time (2:30 am IST) on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said. Shortly after, the area felt another smaller tremor, which registered 5.2 magnitude. The earthquakes hit just south of the island between Fiji and Tonga, and were detected at a […]
Writer E.L James, whose “Fifty Shades of Grey” series has broken sales records for contemporary adult publishing with over 150 million copies sold worldwide, has written a new novel which will be published globally in April, publisher Penguin Random House said. Titled “The Mister”, the contemporary romance, according to the publisher, will be set in […]
Beijing, Chinese stocks opened lower on Tuesday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.03 per cent to open at 2,609.64 points. The Shenzhen Component Index opened 0.14 per cent lower at 7,615.80 points, Xinhua news agency reported. Meanwhile, the central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, weakened 80 basis points […]
New York, The US dollar weakened slightly amid lingering worries about a global slowdown. In late New York trading on Monday, the euro was unchanged at close to $1.1369 from $1.1369 in the previous session, and the British pound rose to $1.2888 from $1.2871 in the previous session, Xinhua news agency reported. The Australian dollar fell […]
Facebook is facing a “record-setting” fine from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over its handling of user data and privacy violations. According to a report in The New York Times citing sources late Friday, the FTC “is in the advanced stages of its investigation into whether Facebook violated privacy rules and is expected to […]
Social networking giant Facebook on Thursday killed over 300 fake Pages and accounts linked to Russia that it said was “engaging in coordinated inauthentic behaviour”, almost two years after the US presidential election. The social media giant removed 364 Pages and accounts as part of a network that originated in Russia and operated in the […]
New Delhi, Taiwan on Thursday strongly condemned Beijing’s demand made on multinational companies to refer to the East Asian island nation as a part of China. In a statement, the Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said that Taiwan “strongly condemns the Chinese authorities for their recent outrageous demand on 66 multinational companies to change […]
Canada’s Parliament has announced plans to add more than one million new permanent residents in the next three years, which is nearly 1 per cent of the country’s population each year. Canada welcomed more than 286,000 permanent residents in 2017 and projects that number could reach 350,000 this year, CNN reported. “Thanks in great part […]