Wildlife authorities arrested two men and seized 18 pangolins from a vehicle near a protected area in the northern state of Perak in Peninsular Malaysia on Saturday. The seizure and arrests were made along the East-West highway that divides the Belum Royal State Park from the Temengor Forest Reserve and is the second to take […]
Mohammed Merah, the 23-year-old Al-Qaeda Inspired French gunman, who confessed to killing seven people in the city of Toulouse in southwest France, is dead after being shot in the head by a police sniper during a final dramatic shootout with French police which marks the end of a 31-hour standoff with hundreds of French anti-terror […]
A major earthquake hit Mexico on Tuesday, resulting to panic as it damaged a lot of buildings and caused homes in the capital to bounce like “trampolines”. Office workers fled into the street when the 7.4-magnitude quake shook Mexico City for more than a minute. Phone lines went down, buildings were evacuated, traffics worsen and […]
Anticipation is heightening for the Duchess of Cambridge’s first public speech, which is scheduled on Monday at a hospice the duchess recently became a patron of. The duchess accepted the position of Royal Patron of EACH in January after visiting a hospice in Milton last fall. The duchess is scheduled to visit The Treehouse, a […]
North Korea’s announcement on Friday that it would launch a long-range rocket carrying a “working” satellite to mark the centenary of founder Kim Il-sung’s birth next month, stirred and sparked condemnation from the United States and other countries, saying that the action would be in breach of a U.N. resolution. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary […]
Prince Harry of Wales has told a TV interviewer that royal life is no fairytale and sometimes he and Prince William wish they were just normal instead of royals. Harry spoke to CBS News after a 10-day trip to the Caribbean and South America to represent his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, at Diamond Jubilee celebrations. […]
A majority of Japanese are against the idea of restarting the nuclear power plants currently shut for maintenance, a survey by the Asahi newspaper showed on Tuesday, reflecting the people’s distrust towards atomic power after the 2011 tsunami-triggered nuclear crisis. The government plans to restart some of the nuclear plants to avoid a potential power […]
Iran executed at least 670 people last year, a United Nations investigator said on Monday. Based on the report, most of those executed had allegedly committed drug crimes that do not merit capital punishment under international law, Ahmed Shaheed, the investigator and former Maldives foreign minister, also reported a wide range of violations by Iran […]
World number one Novak Djokovic, who triumphed his fifth grand slam crown at the Australian Open in January, eased into the third round of the Indian Wells ATP tournament on Saturday while Andy Murray made an early exit. Djokovic, champion here in 2008 and last year, delivered a trashing 6-3 6-2 to Kazakhstan qualifier Andrey […]
Through a moment of silence, prayers and anti-nuclear rallies, Japan marked on Sunday one year since a 9.0 magnitude earthquake which resulted to tsunami killed thousands and set off a radiation crisis that shattered the world’s trust. The strong earthquake that hit Japan’s northeast coast a year ago, unleashed a wall of water that killed […]
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