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Anxiety abounds at NASA as Mars landing day arrives
Published On: November 26, 2018 06:14 PM NPT By: Associated Press
FLORIDA, Nov 26: A NASA spacecraft’s six-month journey to Mars neared its dramatic grand finale Monday in what scientists and engineers hoped would be a soft precision landing on flat red plains.
Taliban ambush police convoy, killing 20
Published On: November 26, 2018 11:30 AM NPT By: Associated Press
KABUL, Nov 26: An Afghan official says that at least 20 policemen were killed when the Taliban ambushed a police convoy in western Farah province.
You face a stark choice - May warns MPs over Brexit
Published On: November 26, 2018 11:00 AM NPT By: Reuters
LONDON, Nov 26: Prime Minister Theresa May will tell MPs on Monday they face a stark choice - either back the deal she negotiated to leave the European Union or reject it and take Britain “back to square one” with “more division and more uncertainty”.
First gene-edited babies claimed in China
Published On: November 26, 2018 03:24 AM NPT By: Associated Press
HONG KONG, Nov 26: A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies — twin girls born this month whose DNA he said he altered with a powerful new tool capable of rewriting the very blueprint of life.
Indian town tense as thousands of Hindus gather near disputed religious site
Published On: November 25, 2018 07:59 PM NPT By: Reuters
AYODHYA, Nov 25: Amid heavy security, tens of thousands of monks and activists from Hindu nationalist groups began converging on the Indian town of Ayodhya on Sunday to demand the construction of a temple on a disputed religious site.
More than 100 injured in Aleppo in insurgent gas attack: Syrian state media
Published On: November 25, 2018 06:30 PM NPT By: Reuters
BEIRUT, Nov 25: Shelling by insurgents wounded more than 100 people in a suspected toxic gas attack in Syria’s Aleppo, which a health official described as the first such assault in the city.
In South Sudan, a new approach in ending child soldiers' use
Published On: November 25, 2018 05:30 PM NPT By: Associated Press
JUBA, Nov 25: After coming face to face with "unpredictable" gun-waving children almost 25 years ago, the former commander of the failed U.N. peacekeeping mission during the Rwandan genocide dedicated his life to eliminating the use of children as weapons of war.
EU leaders endorse Brexit deal
Published On: November 25, 2018 03:41 PM NPT By: Reuters
BRUSSELS, Nov 25 : European Union leaders of the 27 states staying on together after Britain leaves the bloc on Sunday endorsed their Brexit deal with London, chairman Donald Tusk said.
Assange’s lawyers blocked from entering Ecuadorian embassy
Published On: November 25, 2018 03:30 PM NPT By: Agencies
LONDON, Nov 25: Julian Assange’s lawyers have been refused entry to the Ecuadorian embassy, WikiLeaks said in a tweet. The news comes amid fears he may soon be kicked out of the embassy.
Taiwanese reject legalizing same-sex unions in referendum
Published On: November 25, 2018 03:04 PM NPT By: Associated Press
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Nov 25: Voters in Taiwan passed a referendum asking that marriage be restricted to one man and one woman, a setback to LGBT couples hoping their island will be the first place in Asia to let same-sex couples share child custody and insurance benefits.
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