NDTV: A nine-year-old Buddhist novice has died after a beating by a Thai monk who allegedly battered him with a stick and slammed his head against a pillar, officials said Friday. Monk Suphachai Suthiyano, 64, flew into a rage during a prayer session last weekend when the young disciple disrupted the ceremony with his “playful”…
Hindustan Times: On the tape, Imran Ahmed Siddiqui is heard saying: “Journalists have freedom, they can say whatever they want…We too have the freedom to do whatever we need to.” Pakistan’s consul general in Toronto has been caught on tape purportedly threatening a Canadian journalist of Pakistani-origin, prompting calls for his expulsion from the country….
Reuters: The European Union’s securities watchdog has renewed a ban on the sale of ‘binary’ options to retail customers for a further three months starting Oct. 2, saying there are still concerns about the risks of the products. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) started the ban on July 2 amid concern about losses…
The Sky News: A former police officer accused of being one of the most notorious serial killers in US history has returned to court to be charged with 13 counts of murder.Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, is believed to be the Golden State Killer, who terrorised California in the 1970s and 80s with a series of…
CNN: The last time a Pope came to Ireland was 1979, and Colm O’Gorman remembers tuning into live television coverage of the visit from his family’s home in County Wexford. The teenager watched with rapt attention as Pope John Paul II celebrated a “youth Mass” in the harbor city of Galway like a rock star, declaring…
Hindustan Times: Taking on the BJP-led NDA government in India, Rahul Gandhi said while long speeches were being given and hatred was being generated, farmers continued to commit suicide and youngsters were unable to see a future for themselves. While his party binds the people of India, the BJP-RSS divides them and spreads hatred, Congress president…
The News Asia: Hurricane Lane drenched Hawaii on Thursday (Aug 23) ahead of its arrival in the island state, prompting US President Donald Trump to declare a state of emergency as landslides and flash flooding left roads blocked. The National Weather Service said Lane – located about 320km south of Hawaii – remained a powerful…
Stuff, New Zealand: Draining the land on two farms in Scotland, James Hutton (1726-1797) noticed layers of rock. In some cases these layers or strata contained the fossilised remains of unknown creatures.These and other geological observations led him to a revolutionary theory – the formation of the Earth was not a one-off event but takes…
Science Alert: The name “kissing bug” doesn’t quite communicate the danger of the infection that insects with that moniker can spread. These bloodsucking bugs, called triatomine bugs, spread a parasitic illness called Chagas disease.Left untreated, Chagas causes serious cardiac or intestinal complications in about 30 percent of patients, according to the CDC. These complications can…
The Guardian: In an essay for the New Yorker, Karl Ove Knausgaard has detailed two difficult years of owning a dog, wondering if its presence in his home was connected to the fact that he did not write a line of literary prose during that period. (“Merely essays and articles,” he notes.) It was such…