A treasure trove of objects that were supposed to have been left behind after the first moon landing have turned up in the closet of Neil Armstrong, the first man to step onto the lunar surface, the Smithsonian Institution has said. Armstrong died in August 2012 and his wife, Carol, found the Continue Reading
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A Seattle burglary suspect who tried to evade capture by crawling inside an apartment building’s ventilation ducts got stuck and had to be rescued by authorities, police said on Wednesday .Residents in a downtown Seattle apartment building called police on Monday evening to report hearing what sounded like a person “destroying washing machines” with a Continue Reading
Rising food prices are expected to have pushed retail inflation slightly higher last month, but weaker demand prompted factories to slow output in December, a Reuters poll showed. The uptick in inflation is unlikely to change forecasts for more interest rate cuts by the Reserve Bank of India, after it made its first cut for […]Continue Reading
Facebook has tied up with Reliance Communications to provide basic internet services on mobilephones for free, making India the first country in Asia to get Facebook’s Internet.org service. The companies will be first offering the app in seven of India’s 22 regions, or zones and will be going nationwide in the next 90 days, said […]Continue Reading
Sony Pictures and Marvel Studies have reached a deal to partner on the next installment of the $4 billion Spider-Man franchise, uniting the web-slinging superhero with Marvel’s comic book universe.Kevin Feige, president of Walt Disney Co’s Marvel Studios, will co-produce the next film set for July2017 release with Sony’s Amy Pascal, according to a Continue Reading
After a grueling journey up into the rarefied air of the Andes mountains, an expedition team announced it has discovered the fuselage of a passenger plane that went missing over a half century ago.The LAN Chile Douglas DC-3 twin-propeller aircraft was reported missing on April 3, 1961, near the city of Linares, some 300 kilometers […]Continue Reading
Twenty-two people were killed outside an Egyptian soccer stadium on Sunday when security forces barred fans from entering, the public prosecutor’s office said.Most of the dead were suffocated when the crowd stampeded after police used tear gas to clear the fans trying to force their way into a league match between two Cairo clubs, Zamalek and Enppi, […]Continue Reading
An activist who started an online video campaign to shame rapists said on Friday that her car had been vandalised and she had received emails containing pornographic images.Sunitha Krishnan, co-founder of the anti-trafficking charity Prajwala, started the “Shame the Rapist Campaign” earlier this week by posting two videos on the Internet that showed men raping Continue Reading
Indian conglomerate Sahara Group said that a letter intended to support a $2 billion transaction with a U.S.-based former broker was forged, dealing a major setback to the group’s efforts to secure bail for its jailed boss, Subrata Roy.The statement came a day after Reuters reported evidence that Saransh Sharma, a California man who was […]Continue Reading
Egyptian military air strikes killed 27 Islamic militants in Northern Sinai early on Friday, in one of the biggest security operations in the region months, security sources said.Apache helicopters targeted militants from Sinai Province, a group that pledged allegiance to Islamic State, the ultra-hardline militants who have seized swathes of Iraq and Syria, the sources Continue Reading


















