Tweet Washington: Mitt Romney has swept five Republican primaries to effectively clinch the Republican nomination to challenge President Barack Obama in the November general election. With his nearest rival, Rick Santorum out of the race, the former Massachusetts governor built up a big lead in delegates with victories Tuesday in Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania [...]
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Tweet Malaga (Spain): An eagle attacked a British woman who was walking her two dogs in a field outside Benalmadena, a city in southern Spain, and tried to snatch one of the canines. Suzanne Dodd was walking with her two dogs last Saturday afternoon when the raptor swooped in, but she managed to fight off [...]
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Tweet Washington: The US is planning to expand its intelligence operations against high-priority targets such as Iran as part of a new initiative, a media report said. The newly created Defence Clandestine Service will work closely with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to expand espionage operations overseas, Xinhua quoted the Washington Post as saying. The [...]
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Tweet Washington:The US Monday unveiled new sanctions against Iran and Syria for using “technologies to monitor and target citizens for violence”. “I’ve signed an executive order that authorizes new sanctions against the Syrian government and Iran and those that abet them for using technologies to monitor and track and target citizens for violence,” US president [...]
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Tweet London:Eating ice cream or really chilled soft drinks can trigger crushing headaches in some people, momentarily freezing the brain. New insight into how this happens could open the way for new treatment of other types of headaches, including migraine. Researchers from the Harvard Medical School tracked blood flow to the brain while people drank [...]
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Tweet Sydney: Office-goers resigned to working in unsatisfactory jobs are more likely to suffer from serious, persistent lower back pain than those with a positive attitude. Markus Melloh, research associate professor in orthopaedics with the University of Western Australia, found that a third of people studied with niggling non-specific back pain went on to develop [...]
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Tweet Riga: Latvian Police were searching for a bear that ran away from a sanctuary in the country’s northeastern Vidzeme region Sunday. This is not the first time that female brown bear named Made flees her enclosure in the Ligatne Nature Trails. Last August, she dug her way under the fence of her enclosure and [...]
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Tweet Ciudad Juarez (Mexico): At least 13 people were gunned down and four wounded in an attack by suspected cartel gunmen at a bar in the northern Mexican city of Chihuahua, authorities said. “Thus far the preliminary report is 13 dead and four wounded,” Carlos Gonzalez, spokesman for the Chihuahua state Attorney General’s Office, told [...]
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Tweet Hanoi: A province in Vietnam has been hit by a mysterious skin infection that has already killed 19 people and affected more than 170, BBC reported. Vietnam will now ask for international help to find out what was causing the skin infection in the central province of Quang Ngai. The disease begins with a [...]
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Tweet Los Angeles: Former heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson has claimed he got a prison officer pregnant when he was in jail. However, he refused to give any details, reports dailymail.co.uk. The 45-year-old retired boxer served three years of a six-year prison sentence for rape in 1992 and returned to jail for nine months in 1998 [...]
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