Month: December 2019

The Indian city of Bangalore has deployed around 70 mannequins dressed in police uniform to curb dangerous driving after cameras recorded more than 20,000 daily traffic violations. India is the most dangerous place in the world to drive with over 150,000 deaths on its roads in 2018, according to the World Health Organisation. China, in…

The Democrats have announced their support for a modified North America trade pact, handing Donald Trump a victory on a past campaign pledge after months of negotiations. Nancy Pelosi, the most senior Democrat in the House of Representatives, said that her party would back the new agreement after changes which they lobbied for were made. …

The gruesome rape and murder of a 26-year-old woman, within the city limits of Hyderabad on November 27, has set off a furious debate in India on crimes against women.  There are growing demands for summary justice, including public lynching of rapists. Have people lost faith in the law and in the criminal justice system?…

Click:fugitive emission gate valve Walmart has apologised for selling a seasonal jumper featuring images of Father Christmas and cocaine. The jumper depicted a deranged-looking Father Christmas, three lines of a white substance, and the words "Let it snow". A description accompanying the gift said: "We all know how snow works. It’s white, powdery and the…

Nearly two decades after Robert Mugabe began his ruinous purge of white Zimbabwean farmers, hundreds are returning to the land as tenants of the black beneficiaries of his land seizures.   It may not be the triumphant return some had yearned for,  but across central Zimbabwe’s three main crop-growing provinces as many as 800 younger…

 Myanmar’s de facto leader and one-time symbol of human rights, Aung San Suu Kyi, listened impassively on Tuesday to accounts of military atrocities against the Muslim Rohingya minority as a high-profile case charging her country with genocide opened at the International Court of Justice in the Hague. Among the accusations of sickening barbarity were the…

Grandmother killer whales help their grandchildren survive by ‘babysitting’, a study has found, in the first proof of such behaviour outside the human race. Elder female orcas look after the offspring in particular at times when food is scarce and the mothers must go hunting, according to the report in the Proceedings of the National Academy…

Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish festival also known as the Festival of Lights, see Jews around the world light one candle on a nine-branched menorah – or ‘hanukiah candelabrum’ – each day. The holiday begins on the 25th day of Kislev, which is the ninth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar. In the western calendar,…

Worsening conditions on a volcanic island in New Zealand have prevented authorities from recovering victims of a huge eruption that killed six people, left eight presumed dead and seriously injured 30. Scientists have warned the chances of another eruption at Whakaari/White Island within the next 24 hours is growing. At a media conference on Wednesday, Graham Leonard, senior volcanologist from…