A global cyber attack leveraging hacking tools widely believed by researchers to have been developed by the US National Security Agency hit international shipper FedEx, disrupted Britain’s health system and infected computers in nearly 100 countries on Friday. Cyber extortionists tricked victims into opening malicious malware attachments to spam emails that appeared to contain invoices, job offers, security warnings and other legitimate files. Private security firms identified the ransomware as […]

A beach that was swept away more than 30 years ago from a remote island off the west coast of Ireland has reappeared after thousands of tons of sand were deposited on top of the rocky coastline. The 300 metre beach near the tiny village of Dooagh on Achill Island vanished in 1984 when storms stripped it of its sand, leaving nothing more than a series of rock pools. But […]

One of the most anticipated films of 2017 – ‘Wonder Woman’ – is all set to take cinema lovers by storm. The filmmakers recently released the final trailer of the Gal Gadot starrer and, oh boy, it will definitely take your excitement level up a notch. “It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for! The exclusive debut of our final trailer: #WonderWoman – Rise of the Warrior,” the 32-year-old actress […]

France will on Sunday choose its next president after an unpredictable campaign threw up no clear winner in the first round of voting. The second round will see centrist Emmanuel Macron, a 39-year-old pro-European Union former investment banker. Why is it important France is the eurozone’s second-biggest economy as well as a global military and diplomatic heavyweight, with veto power as a permanent member of the UN Security Council. The […]

Do you remember how the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie (2014) opened? You’re going to have to cast your memory back for a moment. A young Peter Quill clutches fiercely to his Walkman, drowning out the world with ’80 chartbusters, because in the other room his mother is dying of cancer. Her last words to him are a promise: He won’t be alone in this world, in this galaxy, […]

The first trailer for Stephen King’s The Dark Tower has been unveiled and it sets the stage for the mystic and brutal battle between the Gunslinger and the Man in Black. Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey lead the epic good-vs-evil struggle in the film, reported Digital Spy. The film has been directed by Nikolaj Arcel and produced by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, who finally made a Dark Tower movie […]

Before he met Michelle, former United States President Barack Obama asked another woman to marry him. But then politics got in the way. These revelations have been made in a new Obama biography titled Rising Star. Its author, David J Garrow, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who won the prize for his biography of Dr Marin Luthor King, talks of Obama’s rise to the top. “Garrow portrays Obama as a man […]

After winning the top spot in the first round of France’s presidential election, centrist Emmanuel Macron brought his wife Brigitte on stage before cheering supporters and said, “Without her, I wouldn’t be me.” She has been in her 39-year-old husband’s life since he was 15 — first as a teacher, then lover and now as a partner in his pursuit to become modern France’s youngest president. Elegant and slim, the […]

Donald Trump thinks Chinese President Xi Jinping is “putting pressure” on North Korea, the US president said in an interview to air on Sunday, as tensions mount over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programmes. If North Korea carries out a nuclear test “I would not be happy,” Trump told the CBS television network’s “Face the Nation” programme. “And I can tell you also, I don’t believe that the president of China, […]

US troops began delivering a missile defence system that has infuriated China to a deployment site in South Korea Wednesday, amid heightened tensions over the North`s nuclear ambitions. Washington is urging Beijing — Pyongyang`s sole major ally — to do more to rein it in, but the Asian giant has reacted with fury to the planned installation of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system. The US and ally […]