Month: July 2015

Scientists on Thursday revealed that the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago gave rise to modern ‘age of fish’. And, so far 188 meteorite impact sites on Earth have been confirmed so far, and 340 are still awaiting discovery.

Researchers determined that the world’s most numerous and diverse vertebrates – ray-finned fish – began their ecological dominance of the oceans 66 million years ago, aided by the mass extinction event that killed off dinosaurs.

The sedated, blindfolded lions lay in the dirt, unwitting passengers about to embark on a 30-hour, 4,000-km journey by truck and plane from South Africa to Rwanda, whose lion population was wiped out following the country’s 1994 genocide.

Then conservationists hoisted the limp bodies into crates, grasping big paws, thick tails and even the imposing heads of animals that earlier pounced on an antelope carcass used as bait to bring them closer to a veterinarian with a tranquiliser gun.

Tunisia said it started deploying armed police around tourist sites today after last week’s massacre at a beach resort, as authorities finished identifying all 38 foreigners killed in the jihadist attack.

A British military plane carrying home eight bodies of its nationals killed in the assault arrived in Britain, as Tunisia’s health ministry confirmed that 30 Britons were among the dead.

US Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton has sparked controversy over her Emails. According to a new report, Senior Obama administration officials, including the White House chief of staff, knew that she was using a private email address.

Hillary Clinton was advised to quietly take action against Pakistani military leaders who gave support to al-Qaeda and its affiliates, an email sent to her when she was Secretary of State shows.

India’s mining giant Adani Group’s 16.5 billion dollar coal mine project in Australia’s Queensland has run into another controversy after reports that senior bureaucrats were sidelined over key decisions on the deal for the venture which was red-flagged by many officials.

Documents obtained by the ABC News under the Right to Information laws showed that the Queensland Treasury and the Department of Premier and Cabinet were frozen out of key government decisions about the controversial Carmichael mine project.

A man who created a Bangladesh- based nonprofit organisation credited with helping more than 150 million people out of poverty was named the winner of the 2015 World Food Prize today.

Fazle Hasan Abed created BRAC, originally known as Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, as a temporary relief organization to help with recovery from the 1970 typhoon that killed about 500,000 people and the subsequent war fought in 1971 to win independence from Pakistan.

Bangladesh was once listed as the second poorest country in the world.

Iran has met its commitments under a preliminary nuclear deal setting up the current talks on a final agreement, leaving it with several tons less of the material it could use to make weapons, according to a U.N. report issued today.

The report said more than four tons of the enriched uranium had been fed into a pipeline that ends with conversion of it into oxide, which is much less likely to be used to make nuclear arms.