Itv: The space capsule which carried astronaut Tim Peake to and from the International Space Station will be on display at Peterborough Cathedral from August 11. The Soyuz capsule travelled at 17000 miles an hour as it carried Yuri Malenchenko, Tim Kopra and Tim Peake on their Principia mission December 2015 to June 2016.Visitors to…
MEMO: The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nikolay Mladenov, cancelled a planned visit to the Gaza Strip scheduled for yesterday as a result of Israel’s renewed air strikes on the besieged Strip. The UN peace envoy said in a statement yesterday morning that he was “deeply alarmed by the recent…
Kabir Humayun: Workers of several ready-made garment factories yesterday staged demonstration in Dhaka demanding disbursement of salary and festival bonus seven days before the Eid-ul- Azha, likely to be observed on August 22. Hundreds of workers and their leaders gathered in front of the Jatiya Press Club around 11am to raise their demand, reports UNB….
AP: On Indonesia’s earthquake-devastated Lombok island, people are reeling as they mourn more than 300 dead and sleep in makeshift shelters, but foremost in the minds of some is rebuilding the collapsed mosques that were the heart of their communities. Dozens of villagers in Tanjung district prayed in a field Friday in front of their…
Reuters: A heat wave in North Korea has led to rice, maize and other crops withering in the fields, “with potentially catastrophic effects”, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said on Friday. The world’s largest disaster relief network warned of a risk of a “full-blown food security crisis” in the…
BBC: Heavy floods have forced the evacuation of 1,600 people – most of them campers – in southern France, officials say. They say a 70-year-old German man who was helping to supervise children at one of the summer camps is missing. The worst-hit areas are Gard, Ardeche and Drome. More than 400 firefighters and police…
Wajahat Qazi/WION, India: As disruptive technologies shake up and rejig the business and commercial landscape, upend business and financial models thereof, somewhat exponentially, established and incumbent firms are finding it difficult to “catch up”, so to speak. (It may be pointed out here that disruptive technology was a term coined by coined by Harvard academic…
Sayeed Muhammad: Fo-ur internationally celebrated authors and intellectuals yesterday demanded immediate release of acclaimed photographer Shahidul Alam, who was arrested on Sunday night. Indian writer Arundhati Roy, Canadian author Naomi Klein, American writer, philosopher Noam Chomsky and Indian intellectual Vijay Prashad made then call through a joint statement, reports New Age. ‘Documentation and criticism are…
Al Jazeera: Grief and anger has gripped Yemen’s war-ravaged province of Saada a day after the Saudi-UAE military alliance, backed by the US, bombed a school bus carrying children heading to a Quran class. Al Masirah, a pro-Houthi TV network, said at least 50 people, including dozens of children, were killed in the attack which…
AP: Aircraft turned hillsides red with retardant as homeowners wet their houses with garden hoses in a battle to contain an arson wildfire, which prompted evacuation orders for more than 20,000 people south of Los Angeles. Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency Thursday night for Orange and Riverside counties as a four-day-old…