World Blogs

The Xi-Li Factor – Is India ready for the new China?

The Chinese Communist party will go through a major rehaul in 2012. Is India prepared to deal with China's new leadership?

COVID-19 case counts may be losing importance amid Omicron variant threat

Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, said that for each new infection detected, the US is missing two cases.

Specially-abled US athlete sets Guinness World Record for fastest 20m on hands; leaves Netizens amazed

The athlete broke the record on 15 February this year in his high school gym at Massillon, Ohio. The official website of the Guinness World Records acknowledged Clark’s achievement recently.

Steve Irwin's daughter Bindi shares heartfelt post on his 15th death anniversary; see photo

Taking to her Instagram account, Irwin wrote that her daughter (Grace) gets excited whenever she watches her “Grandpa Crocodile” on the projector.

Laws alone can't prevent a disaster like the Bangladesh factory collapse

Unless consumer approach in the West changes or countries like Bangladesh come up with strong rules, disasters like the Savar factory collapse will keep occurring.

UN meddling in Indian politics: Top representative must be removed

The UN’s top representative in India feels free to lecture India but waxed eloquent about China during her tenure there. India must ask the UN to withdraw her.

First test tube baby born on this day in 1978 to an infertile couple in Manchester

In December of 2006, the first test-tube baby Louise Brown gave birth to a boy, who was conceived naturally.

Donald Trump regime plans limits on Chinese investment in US technology firms, says report

The US Treasury Department is drafting curbs that would block firms with at least 25% Chinese ownership from buying US companies with “industrially significant technology,”

Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull criticises Special Forces troops for flying 'utterly unacceptable' Nazi flag in Afghanistan

Australian Broadcasting Corp. published the photograph of Special Forces troops flying a Nazi flag from a vehicle while on a patrol in Afghanistan in 2007. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull joined critics, calling the incident 'utterly acceptable'.

No such thing as a free lunch: Private charity lunch with business magnate Warren Buffett sold for over $3.3 million

Anonymous bidder offered more than $3.3 million for a private lunch with Warren Buffett to pick the brains of the renowned investor and philanthropist

Canada files complaint with WTO against US steel tariffs, deems them 'illegal'

Canada filed a complaint at the WTO in response to "illegal" US tariffs on imports of Canadian steel and aluminum.

Indonesia's Merapi volcano ejects towering column of ash: Planes told to avoid area

Indonesia's Mount Merapi has shot a towering plume of ash about six kilometers high in an eruption authorities said lasted two minutes.

Muslim group in UK accuses ruling Conservative Party of 'Islamophobia,' seeks action against members endorsing bigotry

A prominent Muslim organisation in the UK accused its ruling Conservative Party of Islamophobia in an open letter to party chair Brandon Lewis.