Twelve people suspected of planning new terror attacks were arrested in Brussels on Friday and Saturday after police carried out about 40 house searches across Belgium, the federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement. It said a total of 40 people had been questioned after the raids. “In connection with a criminal investigation concerning terrorism... ....
A decision by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) governing body Friday will force Russian track and field athletes to miss the Rio Olympics after the sport's governing body decided unanimously to keep a ban in place ahead of the Games, SkyNews reported.In November, the IAAF provisionally suspended the country’s athletes from competition....
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingRepublicans are giving a whole new meaning to Carl Von Clausewitz’s famous military theory “war is the continuation of Politik by other means.” ... “Groups like ISIS want to claim that they are the true leaders of over a billion Muslims…who reject their crazy notions” said the president ... Indeed, some view it as either a conservative or liberal movement dependent on their notion of Islam....
photo: Public Domain / Facebook/ Attanai Thaiyuanwong
How often do you see a Godzilla-sized lizard knocking your door? On Wednesday a Thai resident captured a video of his encounter with a giant reptile, who was knocking on his door trying to get into his house. Attanai Thaiyuanwong found this huge lizard trying to make his way into his place and within no time shared the photos of it on Facebook ... . ....
Earth's most remote continent has officially caught up to the rest of the planet. That spells disaster for us all. We’re officially living in a new world. Carbon dioxide has been steadily rising since the start of the Industrial Revolution, setting a new high year after year. There’s a notable new entry to the record books. The last station on Earth without a 400 parts per million (ppm) reading has reached it. A little 400 ppm history....
Apple has reportedly blocked two new emoji – both of which feature guns – ahead of next week's proposed Unicode 9.0 update ...Microsoft, also a voting member of Unicode, reportedly agreed with Apple to remove the two emojis from the list. Apple declined to comment, while Unicode president Mark Davis confirmed that ......
Apple apparently 🔫 down the prospect of a rifle emoji appearing in the next release of Unicode, according to a report from Buzzfeed on Friday (June 17). During a meeting in May, the Unicode Consortium—the group that oversees the coding standard for text on computers ...Quartz has reached out to the Unicode Consortium and Apple for comment....
A joint opposition by Apple and Microsoft to a proposed rifle emoji means your phone won't be getting one anytime soon. The effort was spearheaded by Apple at a recent Unicode Consortium meeting. The post The rifle emoji is shooting blanks, thanks to Apple and Microsoft appeared first on Digital Trends... ....
"When mum brought him home from hospital, he was very much mine," Ms Brodribb said ... Now Ms Brodribb is waiting for her brother in Tasmania as he makes his final journey home ... It is a bittersweet time for Ms Brodribb who on Monday welcomed her son into the world. ... Ms Brodribb said her brother would have doted on his nephew....
MsGoldthorpe and her husband, Alex Drummond, both 28, have brought their food truck, The Wolf You Feed, to Dunedin... At that stage, Mr Drummond was teaching music at Wellington College and Ms Goldthorpe was writing her PhD thesis. They got thinking about what they liked doing; Ms Goldthorpe spent most of her time cooking for friends and family rather than writing that thesis, she quipped....
Seven months after her son was born in 2012, MsHumphrey, who also ran the Dubai based moving company Easytruck with her husband Chris, decided to set up a new venture ... As a veteran Dubai entrepreneur, Ms Humphrey already knew the ropes for getting a trade licence and was able to use the same local sponsor she had already used for Easytruck ... "I wanted to create a community for mums in Dubai," Ms Humphrey says....
Thomas Mair is charged with killing Ms Cox (41) a member of the leftist opposition Labour Party and supporter of Britain staying in the EU, who was shot and stabbed to death in the street in her own electoral district in northern England on Thursday. Ms Cox was targeted in the attack as she prepared to hold a regular session to give advice to constituents....
It depicts Ms Pankhurst in June 1935 walking down a gravel path through a garden in the English city of Bath, accompanied by EthiopianEmperor Haile Selassie... In previous years, Ms Pankhurst had gone to study art in Venice, where she witnessed the brutality of the fascist regime ... When Ms Pankhurst felt media and readers were losing interest in Ethiopia's plight, she took matters into her own hands and founded a newspaper....
Seeking a strong and decisive mandate from the voters of Anantnag, Chief Minister, MsMehbooba Mufti today reiterated her party’s resolve to retrieve Jammu and Kashmir from the morass of political and economic uncertainties and usher the State into a era of peace and prosperity ...MsMehbooba said the problem of unemployment especially among the educated youth is a matter of grave concern and needs immediate thought....
Thomas Mair is charged with killing Ms Cox (41) a member of the Labour Party and supporter of Britain staying in the EU, who was shot and stabbed to death in the street in her own electoral district in northern England on Thursday. Ms Cox was targeted in the attack as she prepared to hold a regular session to give advice to constituents....
MsRinehart said the cost of government was growing rapidly and this issue has been overlooked in the election campaign ... government," Ms Rinehart told the Saturday Telegraph....