Riot police clashed with demonstrators in several Turkish cities for a second day on Wednesday as mourners buried a teenager wounded in protests last summer, unrest which a defiant Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan cast as a plot against the state. Police fired water cannon, tear gas and rubber pellets on a major Istanbul avenue to stop tens of thousands of people chanting anti-government slogans from reaching the central Taksim square. […]

Gels containing drugs have had mixed results in stopping HIV infection A gel that can be used by women after sex to protect against HIV is a step closer, according to researchers. Drugs applied three hours after infection could protect female monkeys from a type of HIV, US scientists said. The findings, published in Science Translational Medicine, could lead to new ways to fight HIV, which is continuing to spread […]

  Smokers who kick the habit appear to benefit from an improved mood, according to a new review of past studies. On average, quitting smoking was associated with improvements in mental health similar to taking an antidepressant drug, a team of UK researchers found. “The main message is that when people stop smoking, they feel better than they did when they were smoking,” Dr. Paul Aveyard, one of the review’s […]

Bangalore,India : Imagine making phone calls for hours without having to pay a penny, even when you do not have an internet connection. It is possible now due to an ambitious startup with a 23-year-old chief executive that is still in its early days. The catch: you have to listen to advertisements every two minutes. Even as free voice chats over the Internet using applications like Skype and Viber revolutionise […]

According to the National Weather Service, up to 7 inches of snow is expected to descend on the metro area starting Tuesday night A winter storm that could bring up to9 inches of snow is expected in Metro Detroit, starting tonight and pushing into Wednesday afternoon. The storm will start with rain but move to snow between 10 p.m. tonight and 2 a.m. Wednesday. The morning commute is expected to […]

Leaders of the G7 group of nations have called on Russia to stop all efforts to “annex” Ukraine’s Crimea region. They said if Russia took such a step they would “take further action, individually and collectively”. The G7 leaders also said they would not recognise the results of a referendum in Crimea this weekend on whether to split from Ukraine and join Russia. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s national security chief has warned […]

The City of New York Fire Department has tweeted a photograph from the scene of the Manhattan building collapse and fire. 168 firefighters are attending the incident. Explosion in East Harlem. Building collapse on 116th and park  #Spanish  Harlem Damn! Huge explosion at East Harlem, New York. A building just completely exploded and collapse Firefighters tackle the blaze following a reported blast in east Harlem. Credit: NBC   Please follow and like […]

Last week, we shared Tokyo-based artist Hikaru Cho’s stunning body paintings highlighting sexual repression that featured as part of Amnesty International’s “My Body My Rights” campaign. The young artist’s jaw-dropping skills with the paint brush led us to discover her hyperrealistic painted-object series titled “It’s not what it seems,” in which 20-year-old Cho uses acrylic paints to transform everyday foods into entirely different ones. Only when the food is peeled, […]

Two men who boarded the missing Malaysia Airlines flight using stolen passports have been identified as Iranians and were “probably not terrorists”, according to Interpol. One of the men travelling on a stolen passport is believed to have been looking for a “better life” in Europe. Military radar suggests the missing Malaysia Airlines plane turned west, away from its planned route, before vanishing.   Please follow and like us:

Many Syrian children have been left without protection, medical care or psychological support The number of Syrian children in need has more than doubled in the past year to 5.5 million, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) says. Up to a million are living under siege and in areas that the agency and other humanitarian organisations cannot access, according to a new report. Children in Syria have lost “lives and […]