Desk Report: The 26th of September 2017 marked the fourth consecutive year the United Nations commemorated the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Established in 2013 through the adoption of UN General Assembly resolution 68/32, the day calls for the world community to reaffirm its commitment to global nuclear disarmament as well…
Tarannum Diana Penty made her debut in Bollywood with the movie Cocktail, starring Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone. The reason she disappeared from the media was that she was waiting for the right script. And she finally seemed to find the right story with her new film “Happy Bhaag jayegi”. She said that she…
A portion of Northern Ireland’s Gosford Castle — which was used as Riverrun, the seat of House Tully and the childhood home of Catelyn Stark (Michelle Fairley) — is up for sale, according to a Maison Real Estate listing. The property was built in the mid-1800s by the 2nd Earl of Gosford, Archibald Acheson, and…
Anadolu Agency: The 2018 Asian Games will see North and South Korea united as joint team for several sport competitions. The Jakarta Palembang 2018 Asian Games are to take place between Aug. 18 and Sept. 2. “In accordance with Asian Games slogan, ‘Energy of Asia’, we want to bring spirit to Asian peace, especially on…
Eurek Alert: Astro-nomers at the University of Warwick have found first direct evidence of white dwarf stars solidifying into crystals and our skies are filled with them. White dwarf stars are probably the oldest stellar objects in the universe. They are unimaginably valuable to stargazers as their anticipated lifecycle enables them to be utilized as…
MEMO: Israeli Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz said his government rejected an EU plan to link the Gaza Strip with the West Bank by train, the Anadolu Agency reported yesterday. “I made it clear that Gaza will not be linked to Judea and Samaria [the West Bank],” Katz told Israel Broadcasting Corporation, according to Anadolu. “Their…
UNB The price of rods, the main input material in construction, has gone up by around 20 percent in a year in the local market, raising costs in the construction and real estate industry. Rods or rebar is the steel bar or mesh of steel wires used as a tension device in reinforced concrete and…
David Tilden/Seven Billion Today Australian man Daniel Love was born in PNG, but has lived in Australia since he was five. He has a PNG mother and Aboriginal Australian father. He is now fighting possible deportation from Australia. He does not have Australian citizenship and had his visa cancelled last month after serving a jail…
NDTV: A Boeing 707 military cargo plane crashed in bad weather on Monday west of the Iranian capital, killing 15 out of the 16 people on board, the Iranian army said. A flight engineer survived and was taken to hospital, the army said in a statement carried by the semi-official Fars news agency. The plane…