The Immigration New Zealand has reportedly declined Indian man Balwinder Singh aged 22 a visa to stay in the country with his wedded wife, a New Zealander Glyn Kessell who is aged 59. The immigration authorities cited the age gap as one of the reasons to deny Singh the visa, a move which he labels as ‘ageist’ and ‘racist’, the New Zealand Herald reports.
The Pakistan government has reportedly conveyed to the US authorities that if the drone strikes continued, it may lead to a ‘direct standoff’ between US and Pakistan.
The US oil prices have reportedly shot up above 100 dollars a barrel on Wednesday amidst fears of a fall out post the Egyptian unrest could spread to the Middle East.
Nine people including six Afghan officials have been reportedly killed in a suicide attack that took place in Chaman region of Balochistan at the Pak-Afghan border. According to The Dawn, Pakistan officials said that the suicide bomber blew himself while targeting the vehicle of Afghan border forces. Afghan security officials said that Afghan border commander Akhtar Muhammad was the intended target of the suicide attack. However, the officials said that Muhammad survived the attack.
The Pakistan government is reportedly considering plans to shut its missions overseas by one-fourth, apart from cutting down perks and privileges for its diplomats and staff posted abroad. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs Tariq Fatemi has suggested the ‘austerity’ proposal due to the budgetary constraints, The Dawn reports.
A 60-year-old Indian fisherman, Dadu Bhai, dies in the Malir District jail of Pakistan.
The Assistant Superintendent of Police, Shunail H. Shah, said that Dadu had completed his prison term and was only awaiting release orders to reunite with his family.
Shah said that Dadu had suddenly fallen ill on Wednesday after his blood pressure dropped drastically and was receiving treatment at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC).
The Dawn reports that the cause of his death was hypotension and cardiopulmonary failure.
Multinational Internet Corporation Yahoo has announced that it will take over email productivity provider Xobni for a price of more than 30 million dollars, which will be the second major purchase in a week for the company. According to Mashable, Yahoo had bought mobile video app Qwiki for 50 million dollars recently, with the company being on a buying spree under CEO Marissa Mayer, its 1.1 billion dollars purchase of Tumblr culminating just last month.
A delegation from Isuzu Motors India on Friday met Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy at the State Secretariat and thanked him for entering into an MoU with them for establishment of truck and car manufacturing unit in Sri City in Chittoor District.
Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) Nandan Nilekani said that in the next three to six months entire Andhra Pradesh will be covered by Aadhaar by enrolling every person in the State. He said that Andhra Pradesh would be the first State in the country to be fully enrolled by Aadhaar.
A urine test can now determine whether a transplanted kidney recipient is in the process of rejecting the donated organ, as well as identifying who is at risk of rejection several weeks and even months before symptoms appear.
TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao’s brother’s daughter Ramya on Friday sought security while expressing threat to her life from TRS leaders.
Ramya, who is also the leader of Telangana Rashtriya Lok Dal, called on Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy here seeking protection. She feared that she might be physically attacked by the TRS leaders.
Ramya, who was accompanied by former TRS leader Chintaswamy, said that she would also meet DGP V Dinesh Reddy seeking protection.
Octopods can survive temperature habitats ranging from as low as -1.8C to more than 30C, due to their ability to keep supplying oxygen to their body tissues.
A new study shows that a blue colored pigment, hemocyanin, in their blood, responsible for oxygen transport, crucially allows octopods to live in freezing temperatures.
Research by Michael Oellermann, Hans Portner and Felix Mark at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany, looked at how octopods are able to supply oxygen to tissues in freezing temperatures.
An international group of astronomers has spotted a distant galaxy hungrily snacking on nearby gas.
The gas is seen to fall inward toward the galaxy, creating a flow that both fuels star formation and drives the galaxy’s rotation.
This is the best direct observational evidence so far supporting the theory that galaxies pull in and devour nearby material in order to grow and form stars.
Spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way formed billions of years ago in the dark matter concentrations that began to grow shortly after the Big Bang.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the government of Pakistan have agreed to a 5.3 billion dollars three-year loan programme for improving the economic condition of the country.
The Daily Times reports that the programme titled ‘Extended Fund Facility’ (EFF) has a repayment period of 10 years, with first four years being grace period without any repayment.
Wimbledon”s women”s finalist Sabine Lisicki has said that she hopes that British fans will cheer her to victory after enhancing her Wimbledon ”love-affair” by reaching the final. Lisicki is the first German to make the women”s singles final at Wimbledon after 14 years since Steffi Graf, who had texted Lisicki before her Thursday win over fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska, the Mirror reports.
A masseur of the Pakistan cricket team was reportedly sent back from the recently concluded ICC Champions Trophy 2013 after being accused of sexually harassing a female worker at the London hotel, where the players stayed during the event. According to a source, masseur Malang Ali was sent back with the excuse that his wife was ill in Pakistan, the Daily Times reports.
Formula One racers, including McLaren star Jenson Button, have threatened to boycott Sunday”s German Grand Prix if there is a repeat of the Pirelli tyre blow-out of Silverstone. Button and the other worried drivers have issued the warning after an emergency meeting of the entire grid in the Nurburgring paddock following five dramatic blowouts during the British Grand Prix last weekend and shredded tyres on other cars, the Mirror reports.
A French company has debuted a new range of underwear, which emits a “musk and pear” scent when their wearer starts sweating.
French underwear maker Le Slip Francais’ fragrant underwears dubbed ‘The Indomitable,’ come in boxers and briefs, and are being sold for 51 and 45 dollars per pair.
The company said that perfume micro-capsules have been embedded into the cotton fabric, and give sweat-activated scent for up to 30 washes, the New York Daily News reported.
A sexologist has said that around the age of 18, a man’s testicles produce the most sex-revving testosterone they ever will.
But it takes about 10 years after the peak output to reach a man’s maximum testosterone levels, which means that a man’s sexual desire does not spike until he attains the age of 30, Fox News reported.
Ava Cadell, Ph.D., a Los Angeles sexologist and founder of LoveologyUniversity.com, said that it is around 30 years old that women achieve their orgasms with more ease than they will at any other age. (ANI)
Nelson Mandela”s family mistrust and deep division grows as the anti-apartheid hero remains critical but in a stable condition at a Pretoria hospital in South Africa.
Nelson Mandela”s grandson, Mandla, has accused his relatives of being revengeful and seeking to control Mandela’s legacy.
News24 reports that Mandla’s comments come as the bodies of three of Mandela”s children were being reburied at his home village, Qunu, after family won the court case.
Wealthy Chinese adults have started a trend for drinking breast milk.
Xinxinyu Household Service Company in Shenzen, southern China, has started providing services of wet nurses – or adult nannies – to the sick and wealthy citizens who believe that the breast milk has high nutritional value, the Sun reported.
Lin Jun, manager of the home help agency, said that his clientele features tired company directors and rich couples from Hong Kong.
He told a local newspaper that adults are breastfed, or if they feel embarrassed they drink it from a breast pump.
A pub in Wellington has put on offer syringes loaded with stag semen, kiwifruit liqueur and yoghurt, as part of their entry into a wild food challenge.
Sarah Wood, function manager at the Green Man in the CBD, said that once a person gets past the fact that there is stag semen in it, it is actually quite a nice concoction, News.com.au reported.
She said that a couple of their patrons have already tried the concoction, but more people were expected to try the drink on Friday, which is traditionally their busiest night.
The Duchess of Cambridge’s Australian relatives have predicted that the heir to the throne will be a girl and the royal couple will name her Elizabeth.
72-year-old pensioner Lillian Lowers, a New South Wales resident of Gilgandra, is the only known relative of Kate in Australia and has declared that the royal couple’s daughter will be born in the next few days anywhere between two in the afternoon and just before 12 at night, News.com.au reported.
The Duchess’ second cousin said that she also believes that she will weigh under 2.26 kg. (ANI)
Controversy queen Rakhi Sawant who had disappeared after her last television outing in reality show, Welcome – Baazi Mehmaan-Nawaazi ki, spoke about the much-talked about mystery baby of Shah Rukh Khan. Although, SRK preferred to keep it confidential and dodged questions about the surrogate baby in public, Rakhi is extremely happy and vocal about the big news.
Following the overthrow of Egypt’s elected president Mohammed Morsi by the military, the African Union (AU) Friday suspended that country’s membership until restoration of constitutional order.
The decision was taken at the emergency session of the AU’s Peace and Security Council (PSC) here.
“The PSC will deliberate on the situation in Egypt and take the required decisions on the basis of the relevant AU instruments, including the African Union Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance, the Algiers Decision and the Lome Declaration,” a statement said.