Moscow, Aug. 13: A fire raging dangerously close to Russia’s main nuclear research centre has grown in size, officials said on Friday, as firefighters battled to cut back hundreds of blazes across the country.
The emergencies ministry said that over 500 fires covering just under 65,000 hectares of land were still ablaze across Russia, down 15,000 hectares from the day earlier, in a crisis tha
]]>Colombo, Aug. 13: A Sri Lankan military court on Friday stripped the country’s war hero and former Army Chief Sarath Fonseka of his rank and medals after finding him guilty of dabbling in politics, while in service.
The 59-year-old General was convicted by the first court martial against him, which began deliberations five months back.
He faces another military court on charges of corrupt
]]>London, Aug. 13: The WikiLeaks founder, Mr Julian Assange, insisted on Thursday that the whistleblower website still planned to release its final batch of US military files on the Afghan war, despite an American demand to hold it back.
Speaking via video link to an audience here, Mr Assange said the site was preparing to release the final 15,000 classified files, the remaining files from a hug
]]>Washington, Aug. 13: In a fresh warning, the US has said it has “credible evidence” that terrorists may be planning terror attacks at places frequented by its citizens in India, Pakistan and West Asia and asked them to be alert and take precautionary measures.
In a “Worldwide Caution” issued on Thursday, the State Department said it continues to receive information that terrorist groups
]]>Vancouver, Aug. 13: The Canadian Navy on Thursday intercepted a cargo ship carrying 490 Sri Lankan asylum seekers and prepared to screen them, fearing some belonged to the defeated and banned Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels.
After days of tracking by the Canadian and US authorities, Canadian Forces and Canada Border Services Agency personnel boarded the MV Sun Sea after it appear
]]>London, Aug. 13: A college in Britain is being investigated for allegedly selling English language certificates to Asian immigrants to help them “cheat their way into getting UK citizenship”, a media report said.
The revelations came after fears last year rose that hundreds of students from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were studying at poorly regulated private colleges that had found ways
]]>New York, Aug. 13: It has long been blamed for sibling rivalries, now a new study has claimed that birth order may also affect children’s personality and level of intelligence.
Researchers at the Adelphi University in Long Island found that while first-borns are typically smarter, younger siblings get better grades and are more outgoing.
According to Dr Tiffany Frank, who led the study, t
]]>London, Aug. 13: Children who walk to school daily are less likely to suffer from heart problems and high blood pressure later in life, a new study has claimed.
For their study, Professor Roemmich and his team looked at a group of 20 boys and 20 girls aged 10 to 14.
Half of them watched a 10-minute slide show of images of a residential area ending with an image of a school.
The other half
]]>Beijing, Aug. 13: A Chinese General on Friday termed as “flagrant provocation” US plans to send a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to the Yellow Sea and said the country would retaliate if “offended”.
“A country needs respect, so does a military. We will retaliate if we are offended,” Major General Luo Yuan, deputy secretary-general of the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Academ
]]>It has long been blamed for sibling rivalries, now a new study has claimed that birth order may also affect children’s personality and level of intelligence.
Researchers at the Adelphi University in Long Island found that while first-borns are typically smarter, younger siblings get better grades and are more outgoing.
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