Moscow:  Russian state-controlled TV has broadcast what it called “sensational” photographs, which it said supported Moscow’s theory that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a Ukrainian fighter jet. Several commentators who have examined the photographs have described them as forgeries, however. The photographs, said to be taken by a Western satellite, appear to show a fighter jet firing a missile at a passenger plane over eastern Ukraine where […]

Abuja: A suicide bomb attack killed 47 students and injured 79 others on Monday as they gathered for morning assembly at their school in northeast Nigeria, a massacre likely carried out by Boko Haram, police told AFP. “There was an explosion detonated by a suicide bomber,” national police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu said, referring to the attack in Potiskum in Yobe state. “We have 47 dead and 79 injured,” he added, […]

NEW YORK: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday made his debut among the world’s most powerful people, ranked 15th on the Forbes list topped by Russian President Vladimir Putin who pipped his US counterpart Barack Obama for a second year in a row. The list of 72 most powerful people in the world also included the names of Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani at 36th, ArcelorMittal chairman and CEO Lakshmi […]

  Some movies are made to touch our heart and soul with an overabundance of sentiment. They make us come in touch with our humanity and empathy. And some films are made to touch our mind, to get our mental cogs working, to awaken and expand our consciousness. They are films that deal with questions that we are all too eager and too afraid to ponder. It is those films […]

  Want to know which women are leaning in to huge piles of cash? A new report from Wealth-X lists the wealthiest women in each region around the world, who control a total of $114.6 billion of personal wealth. Wal-Mart heiress Christy Walton tops the list as the wealthiest woman in North America, and around the world. The largest retail chain has been good to her — she has an […]

WASHINGTON: In the decades after World War II, the CIA. and other United States agencies employed at least a thousand Nazis as Cold War spies and informants and, as recently as the 1990s, concealed the government’s ties to some still living in America, newly disclosed records and interviews show. At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, law enforcement and intelligence leaders like J Edgar Hoover at the […]

New Delhi: Google on Tuesday celebrated the 100th birthday of Dr Jonas Salk – the American medical researcher and virologist who discovered and developed the first successful inactivated polio vaccine – with a doodle on its homepage. Visitors were greeted with a doodle on the Google search page which depicts the scientist standing on a street with children playing around him. Two kids are also depicted holding a placard saying, […]

Hyderabad: What has Hyderabad Biryani got to do with terror activities in India? As the latest discovery by the police in Hyderabad suggests, both are connected in a bizarre way. Hyderabad Biryani is the code name for literature on explosives recovered from two activists of Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). The two – Shah Mudassir, 25, from Omerkhed and Shoeb Ahmed Khan, 24, from Akhada in Maharashtra – were […]

  It’s almost official! Microsoft is in the process of replacing the Nokia brand name with Microsoft Lumia. The rebranding exercise will start with France with the company’s regional social network accounts set to being renamed from Nokia to Microsoft Lumia. It communicated the same via a Facebook post. Nokia France’s Twitter account also posted a link to the post. Following the post, the Redmond giant confirmed the move to […]

Even the ultra-rich still look for ways to improve their business. Few people in the US are more successful than Bill Gates. But  that doesn’t mean the 58-year-old billionaire knows everything. There are still important business lessons to be learned by America’s richest man — and who better to learn them from than Gates’ friend and fellow billionaire Warren Buffett? In 2013, Gates traveled to  Omaha, Nebraska, for  Berkshire Hathaway […]