Saudi king’s death could bring ‘prolonged era of leadership cha...
The death of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah at the age of 90 on Thursday brings to power his half-brother, a former governor of Riyadh who has warned that democracy can only come to the conservative desert kingdom at a gradual pace. The succession of Salman ibn Abdul-Aziz, who had been crown... read more »
India decreases number of out-of-school children by nearly 16 million in 2 ...
India has been able to decrease its number of out-of-school children by nearly 16 million between 2000 and 2012, driving the progress in South Asia, but it still has 1.4 million children not attending primary school, a United Nations report said. The biggest decrease in the number of out-of-school... read more »
ISIS executing ‘educated women’ in new wave of horror says UN
GENEVA: The UN on Tuesday decried numerous executions of civilians in Iraq by the Islamic State group, warning that educated women appeared to be especially at risk. The jihadist group is showing a “monstrous disregard for human life” in the areas it controls in Iraq, the UN human... read more »
Notice to makers of ‘PK’ for alleged plagiarism
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the producers and directors of Aamir Khan-starrer PK on a novelist’s plea accusing the makers of the movie of plagiarising certain portions from his Hindi book Farishta published in 2013. Justice Najmi Waziri asked Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Raj... read more »
Why France is seeing an exodus of its Jews
In January 1992, I took my Uncle René to the Bastille. It was our last opportunity to go to the opera. René was about to join his daughter in Israel, ending three centuries of our... read more »
Children return to Army Public School in Peshawar
PESHAWAR: Child survivors of Pakistan´s worst ever terrorist attack returned to the school on Monday, where Taliban militants massacred their classmates, with both the students and their... read more »
Vibrant Gujarat 2015: US looks to invest $41 bn in India over next 3-4 yrs
The US business delegation attending the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit will be looking at a potential investment target of around $41 billion in India in the next 3-4 years. This was... read more »
AirAsia flight data recorder retrieved near jet’s wrecked wing, second black box loc...
Indonesian navy divers on Monday retrieved the black box flight data recorder from an AirAsia airliner that crashed two weeks ago, killing all 162 people on board, a government official... read more »
France fears more attacks, armed woman suspect at large
Key members of the French government will meet Saturday morning to decide on new measures aimed at thwarting a repeat of the attacks in Paris that culminated in a massacre of 12 people at a satirical... read more »
