President Barack Obama has reassured that any American response to the Syrian chemical weapons use would “not be a repeat of Iraq,” tamping downfears of waging another war.
In an interview with PBS News Hour, Obama said that any such action against the use ofweapons of mass destruction would be “limited” and “tailored” to ensure the U.S. does notget drawn into a long conflict, Politico reports.
Real Madrid footballer Cristiano Ronaldo’s Russian supermodel girlfriend Irina Shayk was reportedly seen flaunting her wild side in a sexy animal print two-piece.
The 27-year old supermodel donned a skimpy red-and-gold zebra print bikini for a new campaign for swimwear brand Beach Bunny, the Daily Star reported.
The bikini costs around 200 pounds. (ANI)
Pakistan-Iran gas project would be completed within the stipulated time, Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said.
Abbasi informed the National Assembly that despite difficulties the project would be completed within the stipulated time, Dawn News reports. He said the government would have to pay three million dollars per day in penalty if it failed to complete the project in time.
X Factor judge Nicole Scherzinger has posted some pictures of herself posing in a black-red-yellow Superdry bikini on a Hawaiian beach on Instagram.
The 35-year old former girlfriend of Formula 1 champion Louis Hamilton is seen showing off her impressive body in her holiday snaps, and also uploaded a video of the beach, and later tweeted that she loves Hawaii and was missing her holiday, the Mirror reported.
US Open in Queens has become a foodie’s paradise, with top chefs serving shikai maki sushi rolls, gluten-free portobello burgers, lobster rolls and other delicacies.
This year’s menu features ‘Iron Chef’ Masaharu Morimoto’s shikai maki roll, a diamond-shaped delicacy that features layers of tuna and egg.
Carol Spomer, of the upper West Side said that they sushi served is to die for there, the New York Daily News reported.
Researchers have found a preliminary link between workaholics and reduced physical and mental well-being.
Sarah Asebedo, doctoral student in the College of Human Ecology’s personal financial planning and conflict resolution program, Edina, Minnesota, conducted the study using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has tweeted that western countries are behaving like a “monkey with a grenade” in the Islamic world, after the United States announced that it was considering military action against Syria.
Russia has begun to evacuate its citizens from Syria amid fears that the United States and its allies will soon launch a military attack on Syrian rebels after they were blamed for launching chemical weapons attack on civilians in suburbs outside national capital Damascus, which was against international laws, the Washington Times reports.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said Iran has taken steps to boost its nuclear capabilities with increased capacity for uranium enrichment.
It claimed that Tehran has now installed over 1,000 advanced IR2m centrifuges at its Natanz enrichment plant and has begun making nuclear fuel for its planned Arak heavy-water research reactor.
According to BBC, the West fears that Iran wants to develop nuclear weapons, but the latter has denied any such claims.
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government has revealed in the parliament that President Asif Ali Zardari went on 25 private trips to Dubai, out of total 93 foreign trips, during his five years of political career.
Sharif’s government told in the National Assembly that most of the trips that Zardari made to Dubai were ‘private’ to visit his children, Dawn reports.
A newly-wed husband died six times on honeymoon after a rare virus attacked his heart.
33-year-old Andrew Britton collapsed just hours after arriving in the Maldives for his honeymoon with wife Lauren.
Triathlete Britton, now waiting for a heart transplant, first showed signs of the mystery virus after feeling run-down on the flight out.
Once he arrived on Kandooma Island, last November, he got worse and doctors found that his heart was swollen and was beating abnormally high, the Mirror reported.
Google’s Android is the most popular OS for mobiles yet it is the most vulnerable to malware attacks as revealed by a study conducted by the US Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
According to their study, Android despite being the dominant platform is the primary target of malware attacks as users do not upgrade the software to its higher version.
Android was a target for 79 percent of all malware threats to mobile operating systems in 2012 with text messages representing about half of the malicious applications, Stuff.co.nz reports.
Tech giant Apple is speculated to launch a trade-in programme along with the latest version of its iPhone model in the next month, allowing users to walk in the Apple Stores and exchange their old iPhones for the newer version.
It is speculated that the models considered eligible for the exchange scheme include the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S but the 3 and 3G versions aren’t eligible due to their low resale value.
Instant messaging and video-calling service Skype is reportedly working on the prospects of 3D video calling and the current limitations with the 3D technologies stopped the company from launching the feature.
Microsoft”s corporate vice-president for Skype , Mark Gillett said that the lab experimentation has been done to analyse the capability of 3D-screens and 3D-capture.
The classified documents revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden now point towards the alleged access of the British spy officials to the web and telephonic communications flowing throughout Europe in order to furnish data for the controversial US’ ‘snoop-ops’.
The UK spy agency, GCHQ has power to snoop on phone calls, read emails and text messages apart from tracking which websites users from around the world are visiting.
Pro-Assad hacktivist group Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), which claimed responsibility for disrupting major news websites including the latest attack on the New York Times site was reportedly taken down by their domain name registrar for breach of contact.
The SEA posted a tweet which read that their domain name registrar Name.com had suspended their account for breach of contact after the NYT attack.
According to Fox News, the hackers set up alternative websites, posting stories about the chemical attacks in Syria after hacking the NYT site.
Legendary Australian batsman Greg Chappell has insisted that the current side”s Test ”slump” will be short-lived with the emergence of good young players in the near future. According to Stuff.co.nz, Australia has not won any of their last nine Tests and are coming off back-to-back 4-0 and 3-0 away losses to India and England respectively.
A new survey has found that four alcohol brands—Patron tequila, Hennessy cognac, Grey Goose vodka, and Jack Daniel’s whiskey—accounted for more than half of alcohol brand mentions in the songs that mentioned alcohol use in Billboard’s most popular song lists in 2009, 2010 and 2011.
Banned former Pakistani captain Salman Butt has said that he has assured the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) of his full cooperation in any rehabilitation programme in a bid to get his minimum five-year ban for spot-fixing reduced. According to the Daily Times, Butt, along with his two former Pakistani team-mates Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir, was banned by the anti-corruption tribunal of the ICC in 2011 for their role in the spot-fixing scandal that erupted during Pakistan”s tour to England in the fourth Test at Lord”s in 2010.
South African Test captain Graeme Smith is reportedly in contention for the squad to tour the United Arab Emirates in October for a two-Test series against Pakistan, despite his ankle surgery. According to Sport24, the left-handed batsman had his talus bone of his often troublesome left ankle operated in mid-May, after cutting short his intended first season as captain of county team Surrey skipper in England.
A new research has claimed that East Antarctic Ice Sheet could be at a higher risk to the effects of climate change than previously believed.
A team from Durham University’s Department of Geography used declassified spy satellite imagery to create the first long-term record of changes in the terminus of outlet glaciers – where they meet the sea – along 5,400km of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet’s coastline.
The imagery covered almost half a century from 1963 to 2012.
Scientists have found evidence of water in mineral grains on the moon from an unknown source under the surface.
“Using data from NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) instrument aboard the Indian Space Research Organisation’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists remotely detected magmatic water, or water that originates from deep within the moon’s interior, on the surface of the moon,” the space agency said in a statement.
Researchers have linked increased breast cancer risk to drinking between early adolescence and first full-term pregnancy.
The survivors of last week’s chemical weapons attack in Syria have recalled the horrors after the strike, which killed nearly thousands, including a number of children and women. Syrians continue to go about their daily lives nervously, despite the intensification of media interest and statements about the possibility that Syria will face a military strike. Some families have decided to move to safer areas in the countryside far from the cities, and some are even moving across the border to Jordan. Some of those who live near military sites or government complexes have done similarly.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Murli Manohar Joshi on Thursday blamed Finance Minister P. Chidambaram for the deterioration of the economy, and said he has no solution to stabilize the ongoing crisis. “Chidambaram has no solution to any of the problems. He has very cleverly put the blame on the former Finance Minister, who is the Prime Minister of the country today. He had said that the policies between 2008 and 2010 are responsible for all the problems. I want to ask him what about the policies from 2004?
Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal, wanted for a string of bombings in India, and another suspected terrorist have been arrested from the India-Nepal border, officials said Thursday.
This is the second big catch for Indian security agencies after the arrest of Abdul Karim Tunda, a key Lashkar-e-Taiba operative and expert bomb-maker, also from the India-Nepal border Aug 16.
Announcing the arrest of Bhatkal, one of India’s most wanted terrorists who was on the run for five years, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said: “Yasin Bhatkal has been arrested last (Wednesday) night.