Reuters International This content was published on August 19, 2018 Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan (L) takes the oath of the Prime Minister from President Mamnoon Hussain at the Presid House in […]
Second earthquake strikes Lombok, Indonesia Staff writers, AFP News Corp Australia Network August 19, 20186:01pm Video Image RAW: Terrifying footage of another earthquake in Lombok’s capital A STRONG earthquake has […]
At the start of the 2015 conflict in Yemen, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula conquered a 700km stretch of coastline. A second civil war germinating out of a pre-existing one […]
Source: The Guardian Ghanaian who served as secretary general between 1997 and 2006, dies aged 80 By Chris Johnston @cajuk Sat 18 Aug 2018 The former UN secretary general Kofi Annan, […]
Source: BBC News A low-carb diet could shorten life expectancy by up to four years, a study suggests. Low-carb diets, such as Atkins, have become increasingly popular for weight loss […]
China ‘training for strikes’ on US targets Source: BBC News China’s military “is likely training for strikes” against US and allied targets in the Pacific, a Pentagon report warns. The […]
Source: BBC News Former cricket star Imran Khan has been elected prime minister of Pakistan in a vote at the country’s National Assembly. His PTI party won the most seats […]
Source: SmithSonian By Meilan Solly The earliest hominins split their days between the trees and the ground, alternately adopting ape-like tree-swinging behaviors and human-like bipedalism, or walking upright on two feet—albeit in a […]
Source: TED Talk When cancer cells are closely packed together in a tumor, they’re able to communicate with each other and coordinate their movement throughout the body. What if we […]
Source: TED Talks Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective […]
The Rohingya lists: refugees compile their own record of those killed in Myanmar Source: Reuters KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh (Reuters) – Mohib Bullah is not your typical human rights investigator. […]
Source: The Guardian Catholic priests in Ireland need to be missionaries in their own country to meet the challenges of a changing society, Eamon Martin, the most senior church figure […]
Source: The Washington Post By Rebecca Tan Earlier this month, Denmark became the fifth country in Europe to introduce a ban on face coverings in public places. The policy is widely […]
Anti-Semitism is so bad in Britain that some Jews are planning to leave Source: CNN By Laura Smith-Spark, CNN London (CNN)Mark Lewis, a famed libel and privacy lawyer, is leaving […]
Source: The Guardian BY Helen Pidd North of England editor Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi attended Didsbury mosque regularly. Photograph: AP Police in Manchester are investigating claims that an imam at a British […]
Source: BBC News By Farouk Chothia Image copyright@NBPUBLISHERSImage captionMark Minnie was reportedly afraid that he might be killed South Africa has been gripped by the mysterious death of former police […]
Trial set for Arizona women charged with burglarizing mosque Source: Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Oct. 4 trial has been scheduled for two Arizona women charged with burglarizing a […]
IS deadly new front in Pakistan’s decades-old terror war Source: Associated Press By KATHY GANNON DHABEJI, Pakistan (AP) — Hafeez Nawaz was 20 years old when he left his religious […]
Details of horrific first voyages in transatlantic slave trade revealed Almost completely ignored by the modern world, tis month marks the 500th anniversary of one of history’s most tragic […]
Israel-Palestine is not an equal conflict – for that reason we can’t let people like Corbyn be tarnished as terrorist sympathisers A clash between a nation-state with a defence budget […]