Suicide attack kills 18 in Iraq oasis town
Five attackers armed with suicide vests, rifles and grenades killed 18 people in the Iraqi oasis town of Ain al-Tamer, southwest of Baghdad, local officials said today.
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IS suicide bomber kills 54 in Aden attack
A suicide bomber killed at least 54 people when he drove a car laden with explosives into a compound run by local militias in Aden on Monday, Medicins Sans Frontieres said, in one of the deadliest attacks in the southern Yemeni port city.
World’s oldest man of 145 years wants to die
Living a long life is one thing and being content is another. and once you have loved a long enough life to see everything, how the world has progressed and transformed, how social trajectories change and how history is created.
As Obama heads to Laos, signs of a tilt away from China
The secretive communist government of Laos, a country with a population of less than 7 million, rarely causes a ripple on the diplomatic circuit. And yet its sleepy capital will spring to life next week when global leaders arrive for an Asian summit.
Grief erupts as nation honors, buries dead
Mourners in Italy prayed, hugged, wept and even applauded as coffins carrying victims of the country’s devastating earthquake passed by at a state funeral Saturday, grieving as one nation after three desperate days of trying to save as many people as possible.
World’s oldest man found in Indonesia at the age of 145
A 145-year-old Indonesian man, Mbah Gotho, might just become the world’s oldest man with his documentation suggesting that he was born in 1870. According to a report in The Independent, Gotho’s age is twice the average life expectancy of Indonesians that stands at 70 years.
Claudio Bravo set to debut for City in Manchester derby
Claudio Bravo’s debut for Manchester City is set to come in the most high-profile match of the English Premier League season: The Manchester derby.City manager Pep Guardiola said the Chile goalkeeper, who completed his move from Barcelona for 13.75 million pounds ($18.2 million) on Thursday, will not play against West Ham in the league on Read More
‘Best yet’ Murray poised to pounce at US Open
Andy Murray admits he’s playing his best ever tennis as he looks to capitalise on the growing frailties of his rivals and captures a second U.S. Open title.Ahead of Monday’s start to the season’s final Grand Slam, the 29-year-old is the sport’s man of the moment.
Sania-Monica win Connecticut Open doubles title
Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza received a confidence booster ahead of the US Open Grand Slam tournament beginning tomorrow with a doubles title victory at the Connecticut Open with Monica Niculescu of Romania here.
Two Lankan students at CERN Summer Programme
For the first time, two Sri Lankan undergraduate students participated in the 2016 Summer Student Programme at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, the most prominent particle physics research institute in the world.