A Texas teacher accused of having sex with a 13-year-old student turned herself in to police Wednesday. According to KTRK, AlexandriaVera, 24, of Houston is accused of sexually abusing the boy, who was an eighth-grade student in her English class at Stovall Middle School last summer ... Read more trending stories ... Read more here ... ....
The USGeological Survey has produced an animation showing how the Earth’s temperature has risen from 1850 to the present day – and how it might continue towards a point described by one leading commentator as “the sixth circle of Hell” ... The spiral animation, with the figures for each year building up from a central core, went viral on social media with more than 2.5 million shares on one Facebook page alone....
New research not only suggests an iron dagger buried with King Tutankhamen was made from a meteorite, but the ancient Egyptians knew exactly what they were working with, CNN reported Thursday.Archaeologists and historians have been fascinated with the life and death of the boy-king along with his mummified remains and mysterious objects found in his tomb since their discovery in the 1920s....
NEW YORK (AP) — Forbes has revised the net worth of the woman it crowned America's richest self-made woman last year from $4.5 billion to nothing ... ....
Music legend Prince, who died April 21 at age 57, died of an overdose of from prescription pain medication, according to media reports. The Associated Press is reporting that law enforcement confirms suspicions that the rocker had been abusing the opioids prescribed to him after a hip surgery, which led to his death ... Also Read. Prince Breaks BillboardRecord Over a Month After Death ... Responders were unable to revive him ... Howard Kornfeld....
Asian stocks rose as Japanese shares climbed for the first time in three days before a monthly U.S. government jobs report. The MSCIAsia PacificIndex rose 0.1 percent to 128.27 as of 9.11 a.m. in Tokyo... central bank will raise borrowing costs ... Stocks in the U.S ...Futures on Hong Kong’s HangSeng Index added 0.1 percent and contracts on the HangSengChina Enterprises Index of mainland firms listed in the city advanced 0.4 percent ... ....
Chinese stocks headed for their first weekly gain in almost two months as speculation MSCI Inc ... A rally on Tuesday spurred by comments by Goldman Sachs Group Inc ... in Shanghai... The HangSengChina Enterprises Index advanced 0.3 percent in Hong Kong, extending its gain for the week to 2.2 percent. The HangSeng Index increased 0.4 percent, led by LinkREIT and Lenovo Group Ltd., and rising for the eighth time in nine days ... ....
The EuropeanCentralBank standing pat on monetary policy Thursday and disappointment with the meeting of major oil producers means the focus now shifts to the U.S ... In Hong Kong, HangSengIndex futures gained 0.1 percent in most recent trading, while contracts on the HangSengChina Enterprises Index added 0.4 percent....
The European central bank pegged the GDP growth for 2016 at 1.6 per cent against 1.4 per cent it had predicted in March ... Other Asian indices, including South Korea's Kospi (down 0.15per cent), Hong Kong's HangSeng (up 0.53 per cent) and Taiwan's TWSE (up 0.22 per cent), were trading mixed....
--> ...Japan's Nikkei gained 0.2%, paring losses for the week to 1.5% ... Hong Kong's HangSeng index climbed 0.3%, set for an advance of 1.7% for the week ... The uncertain global backdrop was underlined by the EuropeanCentralBank, which on Thursday predicted consumer price growth would remain below target through 2018 as it struggles with cheap energy feeding into the price of other goods and services ... ....
Bhopal. A 16-year-old student of class X committed suicide by hanging self here on Wednesday afternoon ... A case was later registered at Bilkheria police station ... Police said the girl was alone at home when she hanged self ... They were shocked to see her hanging inside ... RELATED....
Edited excerpts.. Q- What kind of returns do you expect from equities this year?. A- We are optimistic on the equities market ... We have a few events coming up — British vote (on whether to remain in the EU), US Fed hanging to hawkish stance ... It will bring the shine back ... It was issued to banks directly and we have not seen big trades so far ... We are negative on PSUbanks, but positive on private banks with retail bias and NBFCs....
Mark Hyatt filmed two snakes hanging from his ceiling and apparently having sex inside his home in Greenwood, South Carolina, on May 31 (video below). Hyatt posted the video on his Facebook page and wrote. "Yes, this is what I came home to today ...Anyone want to come for a sleep over at my place tonight?". WSPA notes that the snakes were hanging out of the attic. On the video, Hyatt is heard saying ... ....
(Source. Gallaudet University) ...Hanging up my cleats in Italy makes it even more special because it is where my father grew up and he is the reason why I am still playing today because he shared with me, the love of the game,' said Offreda ... Offreda hopes to add another championship to her resume before hanging up her cleats and leading the Bison program into their 2016 schedule ... Also see. ... (noodl. 33928014) ....
(Source. Gallaudet UniversityAthletics) ...Hanging up my cleats in Italy makes it even more special because it is where my father grew up and he is the reason why I am still playing today because he shared with me, the love of the game,' said Offreda ... Offreda hopes to add another championship to her resume before hanging up her cleats and leading the Bison program into their 2016 schedule ... Also see. ... (noodl. 33927925) ....
The Union ministry of finance has written to banks in Goa asking them to ensure that all bank accounts opened under the Pradhan mantri jan-dhan yojana (PMJDY) are linked to valid Aadhaar cards by June 30, 2016. The central government has asked banks to hold awareness drives and camps to ensure that the task is completed by the end of the month ... There was always a directive to link Aadhaar cards to bank accounts....
KUALA LUMPUR ... It comes two weeks after a suit by 33 next-of-kin from Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia was filed against Russia and PresidentVladimir Putin in the European Court of Human Rights ... Chong Seng See, whose sister Chong Yee Pheng is one of the six crew members mentioned in the suit, said in a statement issued by his lawyers that families have endured deep pain due to the “horrific manner” of their loved ones’ deaths ... ....
A woman employee of a private bank here died of bullet injury on Thursday morning in what is suspected to be an accidental firing from the firearm of the bank’s security man ... She was a temporary employee of the IDBI Bank branch on Logan’s Road at Thalassery ... Vilna had joined the bank recently as a temporary staff ... Hareendran, an ex-serviceman, had been working in the bank for the past 13 years, the police said....