Walkie Talkie City skyscraper, located in London, has been renamed Walkie Scorchie after an ultra-bright light reflected from the building melted a Jaguar car that was parked beneath it.
The 525ft, 200-million-pound-building has distinctive concave surfaces that reflect a bright beam of light that has now caused a lot of damage to vehicles that were parked beneath it, the Independent reported.
An English footballer had reportedly been arrested after he broke the cheekbone of a man, who had tried to intervene in a row between the player”s girlfriend and ”lover” in a restaurant. However, Nottingham Forest striker Darius Henderson has denied the charge of ”grievous bodily harm” and insisted that he only acted in ”self-defence”.
Astronomers have successfully synthesized the distribution of atomic carbon around a planetary nebula NGC 6302 in test observations with the ALMA Band 8 receiver.
This is the first 500 GHz band astronomical image captured by a radio interferometer with unprecedentedly high resolution.
NGC 6302 is a planetary nebula, which is in the final stage of the life of a star with a mass several times that of the Sun. Visible light image shows a bipolar shape of gas ejected from the dying star.
Former Pakistani captain Rashid Latif will reportedly prove his claims to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) regarding Indian bookmaker Anu Bhatt in a meeting arranged with the board According to the Express Tribune, Latif claimed that Bhatt, who was named as a key figure by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in banned Danish Kaneria”s spot-fixing case, was the PCB”s guest in 2005-06 when England and India toured Pakistan.
Former Pakistani refugee Fawad Ahmed has reportedly been allowed to wear an unbranded shirt by Cricket Australia (CA) as he does not associate with alcohol on ”religious grounds”.
Senior Advocate Prashant Bhushan on Tuesday said the Narendra Modi-led Gujarat Government stands ‘exposed’ in its corruption linkages, after it compiled a proposal to amend the state’s Lokayukta Commission Bill so as to leave the Lokayukta powerless, extracting all prosecution powers from the position.
The issue of missing files relating to Coalgate led to protests in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) demanding that Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh must make a statement on missing coal files before he leaves for the G-20 summit.
“The Prime Minister will not be available as he is going for the G-20 summit (in St Petersburg),” Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj told the Lok Sabha.
“This is the last day we can get a response from the PM, we should set aside all other work for a discussion on the coal scam, ” she said.
Swiss tennis ace Roger Federer was knocked out of the ongoing US Open in the fourth round for the first time in a decade after a surprise defeat by 19th-seeded Tommy Robredo of Spain.
BCCI has approved rival tours both preceding and following the scheduled Indian visit to South Africa, indicating that almost half of the proposed matches between the two nations will not happen.
According to Sport24, The BCCI announced on Sunday that it had given the green light for a previously unscheduled tour of India by moderate West Indies (comprising both Tests and one-day internationals) in November, while also approving an itinerary for India”s trip to New Zealand.
The issue of SC, ST and OBC quota in government jobs today led to uproar in Rajya Sabha with BSP supremo Mayawati contending that several states have already implemented the Supreme Court order that had struck down reservations for them last year.
Despite Law Minister Kapil Sibal’s assurances that the policy on reservation in government jobs is in force in the states and that the government has already moved a review petition, Mayawati remained defiant and insisted on the Prime Minister’s intervention.
Teenagers who see friends smoking and drinking alcohol in photographs posted on social networking sites are more likely to indulge in such behaviour themselves, a new study suggests.
“Our study shows that adolescents can be influenced by their friends’ online pictures to smoke or drink alcohol,” said Thomas W Valente, the study’s principal investigator from the University of Southern California (USC).
Even as the Pakistan government dithers on granting MFN-status to India, 63 per cent of Pakistanis are in favour of trade ties with New Delhi, a new poll said today.
According to a Gilani Research Foundation survey carried out by Gallup Pakistan, a majority of Pakistanis are in favour of trade ties.
A nationally representative sample from across the country’s four provinces was asked: “In your opinion should Pakistan trade with India or not?” Responding to this, 63 per cent said “Yes” and 33 per cent said “No”. Four per cent did not respond.
Snapping four-day of losses, gold prices recovered by Rs 440 to Rs 31,540 per ten gram here today on revival of buying by stockists and investors at existing lower levels.
Silver rose further by Rs 1,080 to Rs 55,430 per kg on sustained offtake by industrial units.
Traders said low-level buying by stockists and shifting of funds from weakening equity to rising bullion mainly boosted the sentiment.
Weak rupee against the dollar, which is making the import of gold costlier, also influenced gold prices, they said.
A ten-year-old boy was strangled to death allegedly by his aunt over a family dispute at Needoor Keyipuzha near here today, police said.
Rahul’s aunt Vijayamma has been taken into custody in connection with the incident, they said.
The deceased’s father Shaji and mother Bindu are divorced and Shaji was working in the Gulf.
Vijayamma is Shaji’s sister, police said, adding that the case was being probed.
India’s Divij Sharan and Yen-Hsun Lu of Chinese Taipei went down fighting in the men’s doubles third round at the US Open tennis tournament at Flushing Meadows here.
The pair gave fifth seeds Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi and Jean-Julien Rojer a run for their money before losing 6-7 (6), 6-3, 3-6 Monday.
The Pakistan-Dutch combine play fourth seeds Leander Paes and Czech Republic’s Radek Stepanek in the quarterfinals Tuesday.
Sania Mirza and and Zheng Jie of China have already made the women’s doubles quarterfinals.
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Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has lashed out at US President Barack Obama’s decision to attack Syria following reports that the government there has used chemical weapons against its own citizens.
“Unilateral military action against a sovereign member state of the UN is against the UN Charter and International Law and the powerful cannot be allowed to break these international norms with impunity,” Khan said in a statement posted on his party’s website.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned Western military strikes will risk igniting a ‘regional war’. He also said France would face repercussions if it takes part in US-led plans for military action against Syria. The United States is planning to strike the war-torn country in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack by Assad’s regime on August 21st, which killed thousands of civilians, including hundreds of children. In a rare interview with Western media in Damascus, Assad told French newspaper Le Figaro that the Middle East is a powder keg, and the fuse is getting shorter.
Syria has 1,000 tonnes of chemical weapons, a leaked French intelligence document has revealed. The arsenal includes sarin, mustard gas and VX nerve agent, according to the declassified documents published in Le Journal Du Dimanche newspaper and confirmed as authentic by a French government official. According to Metro News, the revelation came as defence secretary Philip Hammond left open the door for a second vote on British military intervention in Syria.
Pope Francis has announced a day of fasting next weekend for peace in Syria. Francis invited people of all faiths to join him on Saturday evening in St. Peter”s Square to invoke the ‘gift of peace for Syria’ and rest of the Middle East where there is conflict. According to Fox News, the Pope spoke to tens of thousands of people gathered in the square declaring ‘no more war’. He said that only dialogue, and not armed intervention, can end Syria”s civil war. The five-hour-long prayer vigil in the square on Saturday will last until midnight. (ANI)
The US, which spends billions monitoring adversaries like Al-Qaeda, North Korea and Iran, pays an equally intense focus on ally Pakistan and has ramped up surveillance of its nuclear arms, according to a report.
The “US intelligence agencies are also focused on the security of the nuclear programme in India, Pakistan’s arch-rival,” The Washington Post reported today, citing classified documents, but gave no details on Indian programme.
Actress Priyanka Chopra says while there was no one to support her when she entered Bollywood, she will help her cousins make a mark in the film industry.
“It has been a great journey till now. When I came here into the film business there was no one to support or back me or help me. I was not from film industry, I was alone. Now that I am here I will protect them (other Chopra sisters),” Priyanka said in an interview here.
“I will make sure I am there for them. It warms my heart to see my cousins coming here,” she said.
A five-year-old boy from China has become the Guinness world record holder for the youngest person to pilot a plane.
He Yide, nicknamed Duoduo, made a 35-minute flight in an ultralight aircraft across the Beijing Wildlife Park Aug 31, Chinese media reported Tuesday.
Zhang Yonghui, the person in charge of the aviation club where Duoduo learned flying, said the distance of the flight was 30 km.
He Liesheng, the boy’s father, said he wanted his son to become braver by flying a plane and also develop his curiosity and desire to explore, according to the Global Times.
Parvez Rasool, the first cricketer to be selected in the India squad from Jammu and Kashmir, finds inspiration from England spinner Graeme Swann.
“These days I am following English spinner Graeme Swann. He is very good and since we have similar bowling styles, I am inspired by him,” said Rasool here Tuesday adding that his favourite cricketer was batting legend Sachin Tendulkar.
Pakistani star Meera is all set to star in a forthcoming Pashto film ‘Worbal’, which will be filmed in Murree and Islamabad in Pakistan.
During an interview with the Express Tribune, Shahid Khan, the producer of the film, asserted that the project has a national focus, unlike most Pashto films that usually restrict themselves to audiences from the province.
Khan insisted that the film will prove to be a milestone for the Pakistani film industry.
He said that it was great that mainstream actors were now expressing an interest to act in Pashto films.
Pakistani troops Tuesday violated the ceasefire on the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, by firing at Indian positions, an army spokesman said.
Indian troops retaliated in response, he said.
“Pakistani troops fired at our positions in Doda battalion area of the LoC in Poonch this morning (Tuesday),” Captain S.N. Acharya told IANS.
“Pakistani firing started at 9.30 a.m. They used automatics and light weapons. Our troops effectively retaliated. Firing exchanges were continuing when last reports came in at 11.30 a.m.,” he said.