An Indian was stopped from entering the Dubai Metro recently, apparently for wearing a dhoti. The 67-year-old man was respectively dressed in the traditional Indian dress, his daughter, who was with him when the incident happened last Saturday at Etisalat Metro Station, said. The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) said it has no official RTA dress code or policy.
Iran”s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei officially endorsed Hassan Rouhni as the country”s new president in a ceremony held here on Saturday.
The New York Times Co is set to sell the Boston Globe to the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox baseball team for 70 million dollars in cash.
Red Sox owner John W. Henry got the Boston Globe for less than a tenth of what the New York Times paid when it bought the newspaper for $1.1 billion in 1993, Fox News reports.
An Iranian lawmaker described as “disappointing” the new anti-Iran bill of sanctions by the U.S. congressmen, Press TV reported Sunday.
From 1978 to the end of 2012, more than 2.6 million Chinese studied outside the country, making China the world”s top source of overseas students, official figures released on Friday showed. In 2012, 399,600 Chinese went to study abroad, funded by the government or their employers, or at their own expense, according to the Chinese Service Center for Scholarly Exchange under the Ministry of Education.
The Afghan Taliban has denied carrying out the attack on Indian consulate in the country. Three suicide attackers killed at least nine civilians, most of them children, in an attack on the Indian consulate in an eastern Afghan city near the border with Pakistan.
IBT Media is buying Newsweek from IAC, which will split it from the Daily Beast brand and announced plans to make it profitable. IBT, owner of the International Business Times, is acquiring Newsweek after the 80-year-old magazine shifted to online-only in January and lost its chief executive in June. According to the Washington Post, IAC purchased Newsweek as part of an agreement with the late Sidney Harman in November 2010 and combined it with the Daily Beast news website. Harman had acquired Newsweek from The Washington Post for one dollar plus assumption of liabilities, the report added.
While warning about possible al Qaeda attacks against American citizens living abroad, U.S. officials may have provided too many details. Former and current intelligence officials said that the Obama administration provided too much detail about intercepted chatter and the source of the information, and that may make it more difficult to get such tips next time.
Egypt’s commanding general has sharply criticized the U.S. response following the overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi last month.
In his first interview since Morsi’s ouster, General Abdel Fatah al-Sissi accused the Obama administration of disregarding the Egyptian popular will and of providing insufficient support amid threats of a civil war. According to the Washington Post, Sissi is widely considered the most powerful man in Egypt, wielding more control than anyone over the country’s direction.
Interpol has issued a security alert across the world after a series of al-Qaeda-linked prison breakouts in which hundreds of terrorists escaped. The warning came a day after the US state department issued a worldwide travel warning to American citizens. It even closed 21 of its embassies over intelligence suggesting that the terrorist network was planning attacks during August. Britain is also closing its embassy in Yemen for two days due to increased security concerns.
A new study of Europe’s high Alps has shown that that glaciers shield summits from erosion, acting as a protective lid.
French scientists studied erosion on Mont Blanc, western Europe’s highest peak, below and around its glaciers.
Cold ice at the highest points froze to the mountain rock and played little part in erosion, the team said.
In contrast, water and rain eroded glacier-free areas 10 times faster than areas protected by the glacier, the BBC reported.
A new study has revealed that one mother in every three is the breadwinner for their family.
The research uncovers a new socioeconomic phenomenon with major implications for government policies on childcare and shared parental leave.
The number of breadwinning mothers, which includes those earning more than their partner or those who are working single mothers, has soared from 18 percent 15 years ago to 31 percent today, the study by the IPPR think tank found.
A new study has found that washing down sugary breakfast cereal with milk after eating reduces plaque acid levels and may prevent damage to tooth enamel that leads to cavities.
Dry ready-to-eat, sugar-added cereals combine refined sugar and starch. When those carbohydrates are consumed, bacteria in the dental plaque on tooth surfaces produce acids, Christine Wu, professor of pediatric dentistry and director of cariology, who served as principal investigator of the study, said.
A federal grand jury investigation is being done on the company that conducted the most recent security review of former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden. According to News24, Federal prosecutors and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are investigating whether USIS, a US government contractor, rushed its cases without doing a proper review, which would be a violation of the False Claims Act.
Beijing is expected to have a vital foothold on the world”s busiest international shipping lane as a 500 million dollar Chinese-built port opens this week in Sri Lanka, while it seeks to secure maritime supply routes.
According to news.com.au, the involvement of such a large Chinese company appears to conform to a pattern by Beijing after it sealed a deal in January to acquire the Pakistani port of Gwadar at a time when it is also building a 14 million dollars dry port in the Nepalese city of Larcha, near Tibet.
Campaigners have revealed that if Julian Assange takes advantages of a new legal loophole, he could walk free from his Ecuadorian embassy hideout next year.
Former Pakistan pace bowler Wasim Akram has tipped England bowler James Anderson to reach 450 Test wickets, who currently needs only six more wickets to pass Bob Willis to become England”s second-highest Test wicket-taker.
Afghanistan will reportedly meet Pakistan in a Twenty20 fixture in Sharjah on December 8, as a result of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the Afghanistan and Pakistan cricket boards.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi has alleged that Congress president Sonia Gandhi writing to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over suspension of UP IAS officer Durga Nagpal was ”politically motivated”.
“I think Mrs Gandhi”s letter to PM (on Durga Shakti) is more politically motivated than by principle,” Lekhi told reporters here.
Sonia Gandhi has written a letter to the Prime Minister, asking him to intervene in the case of Durga Nagpal’s suspension.
Cricket Australia (CA) is reportedly hoping to have a financial boom from the 50, 000 British arrivals that are predicted to come for the second 2013-14 Ashes series in Australia later this year.
West Germany”s athletes were systematically doped with government backing from the 1970s, according to a new report by German researchers. According to The Huffington Post, details from the unpublished 800-page report titled ”Doping in Germany from 1950 to today” came out on Saturday, revealing the extent to which West German politicians were allegedly willing to promote drug use among athletes to ensure international success.
US rock group Bloodhound Gang has been banned from a Russian music festival after the Russian flag was stuffed into the underpants on stage by one of the band members. According to the BBC, bass player Jared Hasselhoff was seen in a video pushing the flag into the front of his pants and pulling them out of the back. Hasselhoff later apologized for the stunt, which took place in a 31 July concert in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, the report said. The bass player told the crowd to not tell Putin as he grabbed a Russian flag from the wall behind and performed the stunt, the report added.
Incessant rains and flash floods have left at least 20 people dead in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur district.
In the rescue efforts, thousands of people in the low-lying areas of region have been evacuated to safer places.
“In the city we have relocated 5204 people to safe places till now. 2251 people are in relief camps and the rest of them have taken shelter with their relatives. In the villages we have relocated 3155 people,” said District Collector of Chandrapur, Deepak Mhaisekar.
A dead lizard was found in the mid-day meal served to children at a school in Berhampur district in Odisha on Saturday. Reports quote Block Development Officer (BDO) Subhransu Mishra as saying that the meal was not served after the lizard was detected at the Regedi Primary School at Hinjili and over 120 students were given biscuits instead. A district official, Bijay Kumar Das said: “A lizard was found in the food that was to be served in the mid day meal.
A class 12th girl was allegedly abducted at gunpoint by an armed youth and his associates in a broad daylight in Gadhmukteshhwar area here.
The girl’s parents have filed a police complaint against a youth of the same area, alleging that she was going to her friend’s place in Daryapur village on Friday when he along with his friends stalked her and forcefully took her away in a car at gunpoint.
Hearing the girl’s scream, locals tried to rescue her, but the youth, identified as Raju Singh, allegedly threatened to shoot then and forced her into the car and fled.