AUGUST 18, 2018
Indian athletes march during the opening ceremony of the Asian Games 2018 in Jakarta on August 18, 2018. | Photo Credit: Reuters
Susi Susanti lit the cauldron which marked the opening of the Games amid the trademark fireworks.
Is that really our President? Did he really do those stunts?
Those were the little questions that popped up in many...
AUGUST 18, 2018
Diversity: The researchers looked at how skin colour varies among 10 different socio-cultural populations
Interaction between genetic, environmental and social forces results in the patterns of skin colour
Skin colour variation in Indians is determined not just by the environment and genetics but by sexual selection, too. A complex interaction between physical and social forces is responsible for patterns...
AUGUST 18, 2018
In this April 13, 2018, file photo, released by Military News Agency, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, second from left, listens to a brief on a missile at Su'ao naval station during a navy exercise in the northeastern port of Su'ao in Yilan County, Taiwan. Taiwan is responding to China’s defense buildup by developing missiles and interceptors of...
AUGUST 18, 2018
A schoolboy who "dreamed" of working for Apple hacked the firm's computer systems, Australian media has reported, although the tech giant said Friday no customer data was compromised.
The Children's Court of Victoria was told the teenager broke into Apple's mainframe — a large, powerful data processing system — from his home in the suburbs of Melbourne and...
AUGUST 18, 2018
A truck carries people through floodwaters in Thrissur, Kerala.
KERELA - Thousands of people in the southern Indian state of Kerala are still awaiting rescue from the worst flooding in nearly 100 years, with heavy rain predicted to continue for at least the next two days.
With more than 300,000 people sheltering in relief camps and thousands...
AUGUST 18, 2018
New citizens during a naturalization ceremony at the Los Angeles Convention Center in September 2017. - Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times/TNS/File
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA — Working a Saturday shift in the stuffy Immigration and Naturalization Services office in downtown Los Angeles in the 1970s, Carl Shusterman came across a rap sheet.
A man recently sworn in as a United States...
AUGUST 18, 2018
Kofi Annan | Photo Credit: AFP
Kofi Annan, a soft-spoken and patrician diplomat from Ghana, who became the seventh secretary general of the United Nations, projecting himself and his organization as the world’s conscience and moral arbiter despite bloody debacles that left indelible stains on his record as a peacekeeper, died on Saturday. He was 80.
His...
AUGUST 17, 2018
PLAINS, Ga. — Jimmy Carter finishes his Saturday night dinner, salmon and broccoli casserole on a paper plate, flashes his famous toothy grin and calls playfully to his wife of 72 years, Rosalynn: “C’mon, kid.”
She laughs and takes his hand, and they walk carefully through a neighbor’s kitchen filled with 1976 campaign buttons, photos of world leaders...
AUGUST 17, 2018In this April 19, 2017 file photo, Aretha Franklin performs at the world premiere of ‘Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives’ at Radio City Music Hall, during the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, in New York. | Photo Credit: AP
Aretha Franklin, the preacher's daughter whose powerful voice made her the long-reigning ‘Queen of Soul’ with...
AUGUST 17, 2018
In this photo released by the National Assembly, the leader of Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf party Imran Khan greets speaker Asad Qaiser in Islamabad. | Photo Credit: AP
The victorious Imran Khan will take oath as Prime Minister on Saturday.
Pakistani lawmakers on Friday elected former cricket star and longtime politician Imran Khan as the country’s next prime minister, in...
