JUNE 9, 2018
Even as a 10-member government panel is due to submit its recommendations for a new data privacy bill, a group of lawyers on Friday uploaded a model citizens’ code, which they said could give the panel pointers to what India’s final privacy law should be.
The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) launched its community project, ‘Save our Privacy’, in...
JUNE 8, 2018
U.S. television studio ABC has apologies to Indian fans of its crime drama "Quantico" after an episode featuring Indian nationalists trying to frame Pakistan in a terrorist plot sparked online outrage against Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra, who plays a lead role in the show.
"The episode has stirred a lot of emotion, much of which is unfairly aimed...
JUNE 8, 2018
New Zealand women 490 for 4 (Bates 151, Green 121, Kerr 81*) beat Ireland women 144 (Delany 37, Kasperek 4-17) by 346 runs
Centurions Suzie Bates and Maddy Green
DUBLIN, IRELAND: New Zealand Women broke their own 21-year-old record as they racked up 490-4 against Ireland Women in Dublin - the highest ever One-Day International score by any team.
Captain...
JUNE 8, 2018
SALINA, KANSAS - A Kansas couple are now millionaires after wining the lottery — but they almost never even learned of their earnings.
Back in March, Andy Patel was behind the counter at a gas station in Salina when a customer came in to have three lottery tickets checked, reported local outlet KWCH. After checking the first two...
JUNE 8, 2018
The Leaning Tower of Pisa and its 5.5 degree lean have vexed engineers for centuries.
Partially constructed on unexpectedly soft soil, the ancient bell tower began to lean before it was even finished, a historical goof that went on to become one of the world's historical oddities — and made the tower a UNESCO World Heritage site.
How can something so obviously structurally...
JUNE 8, 2018
QUEBEC CITY – President Trump on Friday said Russia should be readmitted to the Group of Seven leading economies, breaking with other world leaders who have insisted Moscow remain ostracized following its involvement in the 2014 Crimean crisis.
“Now, I love our country. I have been Russia’s worst nightmare … But with that being said, Russia should be...
JUNE 8, 2018
July 27, 2017: Anthony Bourdain on the ferry to Vashon Island while filming Parts Unknown in Seattle, Washington on July 27, 2017. (photo by David Scott Holloway)
Anthony Bourdain, a gifted storyteller and writer who took CNN viewers around the world, has died. He was 61.
CNN confirmed Bourdain's death on Friday and said the cause of...
JUNE 7, 2018
QUEBEC CITY — French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday threatened to join with other world leaders to issue a rare rebuke of the United States at a global summit here this weekend, drawing immediate and sharp replies from President Trump.
Macron threatened to exclude the United States from the joint statement issued every year at the end of...
JUNE 7, 2018
Courtesy of Emirates
Last year, Emirates debuted its new first class cabin where every seat was a window seat. Even the seats in the middle of the plane along the aisle had windows — but not in the traditional sense.
Each first class seat was a tiny world of its own. Floor-to-ceiling walls and a sliding door made self-contained...
JUNE 7, 2018
NASA's Curiosity rover drilled this two-inch-deep hole in a Martian rock as part of its examinations of the red planet's soil composition. - Photograph by NASA
Day to day, it’s easy to lose sight of an astonishing fact: Since 2012, humankind has been driving a nuclear-powered sciencemobile the size of an SUV on another planet.
This engineering marvel, NASA’s...
