Best Movies of The Year 2021
- 31-Dec-2021
The year 2021 had some of the best movies and they were worthy of spending both time and money by watching them in cinemas and home due to their gripping storyline, visual effects, acting and production. Here we look at the five movies that kept the audience hooked to their seats. Dune: Part One Cast: […]
Scientists solve weighty matter of Milky Way mass
- 08-Mar-2019
Pervious estimates put the mass of the Milky Way ranging between 500 billion and 3 trillion times the mass of the Sun.
Mass infant grave at Irish Catholic home to be excavated
- 24-Oct-2018
DUBLIN: Ireland’s government on Tuesday approved the full excavation of a mass grave of infant and children’s remains on the site of a former Catholic home for unmarried mothers. Significant quantities of baby remains were discovered in an apparent makeshift crypt in the town of Tuam in western Ireland during test excavations between 2016 and […]
Honda to start mass recall in China over Takata airbags
- 01-Oct-2017
BEIJING: Honda will recall more than 245,000 vehicles in China over concerns about airbags made by troubled Japanese giant Takata, Chinese authorities said Sunday, dealing another blow to Takata’s largest client. The Japanese carmaker and its Chinese joint venture partner Guangqi Honda will start withdrawing vehicles fitted with the potentially faulty airbags beginning October 23 […]
Hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli jails launch mass hunger strike
- 17-Apr-2017
RAMALLAH: Hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli jails launched a hunger strike on Monday following a call from leader and prominent prisoner Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian Authority official said. Issa Qaraqe, head of prisoners affairs for the Palestinian Authority, said that “around 1,300 Palestinian prisoners” were participating in the hunger strike and the number could rise. […]
Muslims attend mass in France and Italy after priest killing
- 01-Aug-2016
PARIS: Muslims in several parts of France and Italy attended Catholic masses on Sunday in a gesture of solidarity after the killing of a French priest in Normandy by Islamist militants.
Pope Francis falls in Poland, escapes injury
- 28-Jul-2016
CZESTOCHOWA, POLAND: Pope Francis fell on Thursday after stumbling down a step on an altar during a visit to Poland but quickly got back to his feet, seemingly without injury.
Mass funeral for unclaimed victims of deadly Karachi heatwave
- 27-Jun-2015
KARACHI: Pakistani welfare volunteers on Friday held a mass funeral for 50 victims of Karachi's worst heatwave in decades, whose bodies had gone unclaimed.
Wikipedia to file lawsuit challenging mass surveillance by NSA
- 10-Mar-2015
CALIFORNIA: Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that runs free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, will file a lawsuit against the National Security Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice, challenging the government's mass surveillance program.
Cultural Revolution evoked with China mass sentencing
- 23-Oct-2014
BEIJING: Chinese officials sentenced eight criminals and paraded another 16 suspects in front of 5,000 spectators, prompting criticism by domestic media Thursday, which drew parallels with the bloodthirsty chaos of the Cultural Revolution.