Photo credit: NDTV At least 12 people were killed and over 300 injured following a strike on Riyadh’s international airport on Saturday – the third attack this week – as Yemen’s Houthi forces stepped up their campaign against the kingdom. The Independent reports that the Saudi civilian aviation authority confirmed the casualties, saying four Saudis, two…
Much has been said about the activities of men and a lot will, certainly, still be said. Take or leave it, despite the fact that women are ‘catching up’, we live, more or less, in a man’s world. It starts from most religions deities. We look at them as masculine. Most of the prophets in…
We had prepared for this wedding in spite of the fact that we were only informed by rumors. But the guy suppossedly taking in a brand new wife is someone I don’t really like. But then, whether you like someone or not, anytime they are making history, one must identify with them. So, I had…
After less than a week of protests, the Nigerian government had to disband the notorious Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigerian Police force. Without any exception, I salute the youths who deemed it fit to find a permanent solution to the oppressive squad which was a part of the government, We can now…
Photo credit: Radio Canada Canada lost 68,000 jobs in September, according to Statistics Canada, marking a second straight month of losses. CBC News reports that the unemployment rate ticked up 0.1 percentage point to 6.5 per cent, the same level it was at the start of the year. The figure bucked economists’ predictions of a 9,200-job gain…
Photo credit: TVS A magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit Panama, the latest strong tremor after a 7.7 quake struck the country a day earlier, local media reported on Saturday. Shafaq News reports that the country’s emergency operations chief Rene Garcia said no deaths were immediately reported, while at least two people were injured in the earllier earthquake. Seismo…
Photo credit: Daily Mail Restoring Indigenous cultural burning could help break a “catastrophic fire loop” plaguing Australia’s southeast forests, a new study has found. Researchers reconstructed the past millennium of vegetation, fire and erosion in Victoria’s Croajingolong National Park in East Gippsland, one of the country’s most fire-prone forests. The study, published on Thursday by the University…
