Sprawl on a sun deck, put your legs up and watch as the world goes by – ancient civilizations, medieval castles, stunning landscapes, palm fringed waters, floating villages or quaint cities – take your pick! It’s all yours for the taking, right here aboard a relaxing river cruise vacation. 1. Cruise through ancient civilizations along the Nile The best way to acquaint yourself with a culture that developed around the […]
Residents in Tonga who were alarmed when the sea turned red have been given an explanation, it’s reported. Locals in the Pacific island’s Vava’u district were baffled by the sea’s colour change at the end of December, with some imagining it was a biblical sign the world was ending, according to the New Zealand Kaniva Pacific website. But an expert says the crimson tinge was caused by overgrown algae releasing […]
BEIJING: A group of Chinese businessmen allegedly gave $300,000 to school students in Shaanxi province to procure virgin girls, whom the men then offered to officials as ‘gifts’. Several schoolgirls were molested and tortured, local officials said. In a curious pyramid scheme, girl students of 11th grade were asked to lure and torture virgin girls of 10th grade to force them to have sex with officials. Six of the […]
We always complain about how expensive it is to even go abroad, let buy anything there. The States, the UK and a couple of other places have come to symbolise the world for us. While it’s true that our currency is pretty weak, there’s no denying that there are places you can go to and things you can see with our own desi rupaiya that will make you feel like […]
An amateur treasure hunter has discovered one of the largest hoards of Anglo Saxon coins ever found in Britain worth over one million pounds. The 5,251 silver coins in “superb condition” were found in a farmer’s field near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. They are said to form one of the largest hoards of Anglo Saxon coins ever found in Britain. The dig was organised by the Weekend Wanderers Detecting Club in […]
STUTTGART, Germany — Soon after the Islamist group Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 teenage girls in Nigeria in April, the United States sent surveillance drones and about 30 intelligence and security experts to help the Nigerian military try to rescue them. Gen. David M. Rodriguez, the top general for American missions in Africa, rushed from his headquarters here to help the commanders in the crisis. Seven months later, the drone […]
North Koreans’ ability to surf the Internet — for the few in the isolated nation who could ever really go online anyway — is rockier than ever. Dyn Research reported on Monday that the country’s Internet was down, after 24 hours of “increasing instability.” It stayed dead for more than nine hours, then came back to life — but not for long. Half a day later Dyn said it was […]
The 26/11 Mumbai attacks happened as a result of one of the “most devastating near-misses in the history of spycraft” in which the US, British and Indian spy agencies failed to pull together all the strands gathered by their high-tech surveillance to thwart the assault on India’s financial capital, according to an investigative report said. A detailed report by the New York Times, ProPublica and the PBS series ‘Frontline’ titled […]
These stunning snaps capture true winter wonderlands – as Mother Nature’s icy grip takes hold of America’s National Parks. From snow-capped mountains in Yosemite to an icy still Glacier Bay, the incredible images show their beauty is year round. In other breath-taking shots crisp frost lines the paths through Great Smokey Mountains and Crater Lake has had more than a dusting of snow. Each stunning shot was collated by the […]
Villagers in Kazakhstan are increasingly turning to an unusual animal to guard their land – wolves, it’s been reported. “You can buy a wolf cub for just $500 (£320), they say, and hunters are adamant that if treated well the wild animal can be tamed,” the KTK television channel reports. Nurseit Zhylkyshybay, from the south-eastern Almaty region, tells the channel he bought a wolf cub, Kurtka, from hunters three years […]
