Ukraine’s young government is running out of viable options for restoring its control of eastern regions and preserving the country’s territorial integrity. Government and police buildings in more than a dozen places are still held by pro-Russian protesters, sometimes led by masked and well-armed men in uniform. The response from Kiev to this assault has been inconsistent and hesitant. Amid a war of words between Washington and Moscow, the “agreement” […]

 Mastodons — elephant-like beasts that lumbered across North America more than 10,000 years ago — are long extinct, but apparently it wasn’t tooth decay that did them in. A 9-year-old Michigan boy stumbled across something — literally — that, it turns out, is a mastodon tooth. “I was walking down at the creek last summer. I felt something that I stepped on so I picked it up and everybody in […]

Travel expenses, prices & safety We have calculated that the total cost of hotels booking in USA is bigger then cost of accommodation in India . Prices in restaurants are usually bigger than in India. A consumer price index (CPI) measures changes in the price level of a market basket of consumer goods and services purchased by households. USA price index is 54 and is higher then India. This means […]

An “anti-terrorist operation” is under way in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region against pro-Russia protesters, Kiev declared on Tuesday, with armored personnel carriers seen on the road in the restive area. Twenty-four hours after a Ukrainian ultimatum expired for the protesters to lay down their arms, acting President Oleksandr Turchynov told Parliament the operation would be “conducted step by step, responsibly, cautiously.” “The aim of these actions is to protect the […]

Once investigators looking for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 decide to shift from listening for pings emanating from the floor of the Indian Ocean to poring over its terrain, they will begin drawing from a whole new set of tools. Among them will be the Bluefin-21, a probe equipped with side-scan sonar — an acoustic technology that creates pictures from the reflections of sound rather than light. “That is a piece […]

The only reason to live is to travel and the only reason to travel is to learn how to live. Imagine yourself walking along the cobblestone streets of a remote village in the Netherlands, waking up to French-pressed coffee and danishes that change everything you know about the word. Imagine swimming in a warm ocean that looks onto sprawling mountains and colorful houses, with coves that enclose caves of crystal […]

  One foreign photographer has been killed and a reporter wounded in a shooting by an Afghan policeman in the country’s east, a day before presidential elections. Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, a 48-year-old German national, was killed instantly according to the news agency, while AP reporter Kathy Gannon, a Canadian, was wounded in the attack on Friday. “Anja and Kathy together have spent years in Afghanistan covering the conflict […]

Rights groups are warning of a backlash against activists in Sri Lanka following a landmark United Nations resolution calling for an international inquiry into abuses at the end of the country’s civil war. The U.N.’s Human Rights Council passed a resolution Thursdaycalling for a “comprehensive investigation into alleged serious violations and abuses of human rights” allegedly committed both by Sri Lankan government forces and the separatist Tamil Tigers in the final […]

Lance Corporal in the Coldstream Guards hit trigger switch of suicide bomber whose device then exploded, Telegraph learn A British sniper in Afghanistan killed six insurgents with a single bullet after hitting the trigger switch of a suicide bomber whose device then exploded, The Telegraph has learnt.The 20-year-old marksman, a Lance Corporal in the Coldstream Guards, hit his target from 930 yards (850 metres) away, killing the suicide bomber and […]

Flight from Amsterdam to Birmingham was hit by lightning on Friday Passengers heard a ‘massive bang’ – but the plane landed as normal Woman photographing the storm caught a picture of one bolt striking The aircraft’s captain only told passengers afterwards what had happened   A bright flash of light and booming noises in a cramped seat thousands of feet in the air would be enough to put off even […]