Month: April 2019

Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday began negotiations to form a new Right-wing coalition after seeing off a centrist challenger in a close election and securing a fifth term as Israel’s prime minister.  Mr Netanyahu’s Likud party won the same number of seats as Blue & White, a centrist coalition led by former general Benny Gantz, but the…

India’s Election Commission has prohibited the release of a Bollywood biopic on Narendra Modi, the prime minister, a day before its scheduled release, claiming it would tip the balance of the general elections in his favour.   The Commission, which oversees India’s parliamentary and provincial elections, on Wednesday ruled that releasing PM Narendra Modi would give…

The highly successful Hollywood actress did not appear to be a lost soul. Allison Mack was seen by friends on the set of Smallville, the drama about Superman’s early years, as open, friendly, and highly professional. For 10 years she played Clark Kent’s best friend – a sought-after role in a hit show, and the culmination…

A German former Isil bride went on trial on Tuesday on charges of deliberately allowing a five-year-old Yazidi girl to die of thirst. The 27-year-old woman, named only as Jennifer W under German privacy laws, is accused of “murder by omission” and a war crime over the death of the child in the Iraqi city…

Fighting in Tripoli intensified drastically on Wednesday as rival armies brought tanks and multiple rocket-launch systems to bear in the deadly struggle for control of the Libyan capital. The escalation came as Fayez al-Sarraj, the prime minister of the internationally recognised Government of National Accord, issued an address to the nation urging Libyans to defend the…

Nepal is sending a group of expert climbers to remeasure the height of Mount Everest today amid concerns that the devastating 2015 earthquake in the country caused the peak to shrink. It is the first time the country has sent its own government-appointed team to conduct a survey of the world’s highest mountain. Officially, Everest…

Wreckage from a Japanese F-35A stealth fighter jet has been found a day after it disappeared off the radar over the Pacific, the country’s defence minister said Wednesday. There was no word yet on the fate of the one pilot on board the jet, Defence Minister Takeshi Iwaya said. It was the first reported case…

A young Taiwanese woman received the shock of her life when she sought hospital treatment for a suspected eye infection and doctors extracted four live bees that had been feasting on her tear ducts.  The 29-year-old, identified only by her surname He by Taiwan’s CTS news channel, said she had assumed that sand or dirt…

France’s culture minister has been forced to deny "complicity" in rehabilitating a "fascist’ for backing a new museum in honour of France’s best-known architect, Le Corbusier. It has long been known that Le Corbusier, famed for his revolutionary concrete creations, including a housing project in Marseille called La Cité Radieuse, had some ties to France’s…

A black hole surrounded by swirling ring of fire has been pictured by scientists for the first time in an image described as ‘the gates of hell, at the end of space and time.’ The phenomenon which has never been observed before shows superheated matter being pulled towards the event horizon after which nothing can…