There are many instances when human lives were put in danger in order to fight against manmade disasters or natural calamities. For example, three years before when Japan was struck with the nightmare of tsunami, a critical accident occurred at one of its nuclear reactors. The reactor blew to pieces, blasting a fatal amount of...Read More
The mystery behind the origin of oceans on Earth still needs to be resolved. But since the European spacecraft Rosetta caught up with a comet with water like content, scientists believe that they have found an important piece of this puzzle. Until now it was believed that water in the oceans came from comets, but...Read More
New York is a multicultural city. The eating culture in New York is varied enough to suit the palates of immigrants. So we have the French bistro, the English pub, the California juice bar, the Punjabi dhaba. But now, Australian cafes are making their mark on the New York cafe scene. Cafes such as Little...Read More
On Thursday, 17 July 2014, Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 Boeing 777 was shot down over Ukraine, near the Russian border. None of the 298 passengers on board survived. The most well-known among the passengers in the week following the incident, though, is Cor Pan, a Dutch national travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, posted a...Read More
Death is the only certainty of life. Yet we fear it so. Nobody knows for sure what happens afterwards, if we just dissolve into unconscious matter or if we float up to a higher plane, but civilisation after civilisation has speculated on the possibilities. For some hell and afterlife are just myths, spook stories; for...Read More
If the words ‘Ty Warner Penthouse’ mean nothing to you, you probably don’t have $45,000 dollars to spend on a night’s accommodation. Yes, you read that right. This penthouse suite on the fifty-second floor of New York’s Four Seasons Hotel, seven hundred feet above Manhattan, will set you back by a little matter of nearly...Read More
If funding is received as expected, say astronomers at SETI Research Centre at the University of California, Berkeley, chances are that we will discover intelligent alien life within the next twenty years. Dan Werthimer, director of the research centre, said in his written testimony to Congress that the likelihood of aliens existing was ‘close to...Read More
We’ve had stories like this before coming out of Islamic countries, but here’s one more. A Christian couple has been sentenced to death for sending a blasphemous text message allegedly insulting the Prophet Mohammed. Shafqat Emmannuel and Shagufta Kausar, a couple in their forties, belong to the town of Gojra, which has a long history...Read More
Violence in Afghanistan is not new, but this time it comes on the eve of a possible age of democracy in the war-torn land. For the first time ever in hits history, Afghanistan is going to polls, but Taliban forces have vowed that they will do whatever is in their power to disrupt the voting...Read More
Comedian, Ari Teman wanted to make some easy bucks by renting his apartment on AirBnB as he had plans to go away for the weekend. AirBnB is a website where you can put up your property for rent even for a day or two. Teman rented out his apartment to a guy named David who...Read More