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Thousands of butterflies floated and fluttered around the Hidden Jungle Aviary at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park as children and adults alike marveled at the beautiful winged insects. The attendees were treated to a sneak peek of the Safari Park’s annual springtime event, Butterfly Jungle, which opens Saturday (March 14) and runs through April 12. At Butterfly Jungle, the walk-through Hidden Jungle aviary has been transformed into a temporary home for more than 30 […]
Robert Downey Jr. helped in making one disabled child’s dream even bigger. The actor met the boy in character as his “Iron Man” alter ego Tony Stark to deliver a bionic prosthetic arm. Seven-year old Alex Pring, who was born with a partially developed arm, seemed a little starstruck meeting Downey, who opened two boxes, one containing an arm from Downey’s own Iron Man suit, and another box with a matching arm for Pring, a […]
ANKARA, March 15 (Reuters) – Three British teenagers have been detained in the Turkish city of Istanbul while planning to cross the border into neighbouring Syria to join the militant Islamic State group, Turkish officials said on Sunday. The three, who have not been named but are aged 18 and 19, were seized on Friday two separate sources told Reuters. Turkish authorities are in touch with their British counterparts to arrange their deportation to Britain […]
Australian Open champion and top seed Novak Djokovic launched his BNP Paribas Open title defence in ruthless style on Saturday, crushing Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis 6-1 6-3 in the second round. Playing near-flawless tennis from the baseline, the Serb broke his opponent twice in each set to coast to victory in just under an hour on the showpiece stadium court at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Djokovic, seeking a fourth title at Indian Wells, breezed through […]
Lewis Hamilton’s world championship defence got off to a flying start on Sunday (March 15) with a crushing victory for Mercedes in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix as Formula One rivals succumbed to a farcical rash of reliability problems. Pole-sitter Hamilton started from a grid reduced to 15 cars from a possible 20 and cruised to his 34th race win with a 1.3-second gap to runner-up team mate Nico Rosberg. With Mercedes enjoying a Sunday […]
Hundreds of police were on standby at Hong Kong’s Government House on Sunday (March 15) at its bi-annual open day after threats of anti-mainland protests by radical groups. Although individuals attempted to protest by opening yellow umbrellas, a sign ofHong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, they were quickly escorted out of the area by police. Thousands of people lined up all day to enter the Chief Executive’s residence and gardens, including Mr Chan, a Chinese native who […]
Bombs outside two churches in the Pakistani city of Lahore killed 14 people and wounded nearly 80 during Sunday (March 15) services, and witnesses said quick action by a security guard prevented many more deaths. A Pakistani Taliban splinter group claimed responsibility. The blasts went off minutes apart in a majority Christian suburb of the eastern city. Police said it seemed they targeted two churches, one Catholic and one Protestant, that are very close to […]
A 72-year-old nun was gang-raped in the Nadia district of India’s easternWest Bengal state on Friday (March 13) night. According to reports, around a dozen men entered the Convent of Jesus and Mary school and gang-raped the elderly nun when she tried to stop them from looting the school. The nun has been admitted to hospital and her condition is reported to be critical. “It is an unfortunate incident. No such incident has ever happened […]
Iraqi Kurdish authorities said on Saturday (March 14) they have evidence that Islamic State had used chlorine gas as a chemical weapon against their peshmerga fighters. The Security Council of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region (KRSC) said in a statement that the peshmerga had taken soil and clothing samples after an Islamic State suicide bombing in northern Iraq in January. It said laboratory analysis showed “the samples contained levels of chlorine that suggested the substance was […]
By Atty. Jeremy Gatdula IT HAS LONG BEEN my position that whatever draft Bangsamoro Basic Law is passed by Congress, it would ultimately be inutile for the reason that there exists the quite unconstitutional Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (which, along with the Framework Agreement and other related agreements, shall hereafter be referred to as the CAB). Or put another way: the debate about the Basic Law’s constitutionality is a false flag, a distraction. To […]
At least 10 Americans possibly exposed to the deadly Ebola virus were flown to the United States from Sierra Leone for observation, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Saturday. They will be transported by non-commercial air transport and will be housed near the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, the National Institutes of Health in Maryland, or Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, the CDC said. All of the individuals who […]
Japan hosted a United Nations conference on Saturday (March 14) and pledged $4 billion towards a new plan to reduce disaster risk. Addressing the conference in the north-eastern city of Sendai, United Nations Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-Moon said that this was the point to determine where to go next. “This is our first stop on our journey to a new future. To put our people of the world and this world on a sustainable path,” Ban told […]
