Twin blasts kill 10 in northeast Nigeria
Two suicide bomb blasts along a highway in northeast Nigeria killed at least 10 people on Thursday afternoon, state police said, the latest in a string of almost daily attacks by suspected Islamist militants. A female suicide bomber killed seven and injured 13 at a village called Malari on the main... read more »
Turkish PM denies plans for imminent intervention in Syria
Turkey has no plans to intervene militarily in Syria anytime soon, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said, refuting media speculation about an imminent operation to create a buffer zone along the Turkish-Syrian border. “No one should expect that Turkey will go into Syria tomorrow or in the near... read more »
Imran Khan slams Punjab Govt. over arrest of his nephews
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan has lashed out at the Punjab Government over the recent arrest of two of his nephews and alleged that the incident was arranged. According to Dawn News, he said that his nephews were “mistreated because of who they are”. The PTI chief... read more »
Working moms readily accepted now
Societal acceptance of working mothers is now a given and is at an all-time high, says a new study. Researchers analysed data from nearly 600,000 respondents from two nationally representative surveys — one of US 12th graders and the other of adults — taken between 1976 and 2013 The goal was to... read more »
