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Bike enthusiasts took their bikes to the streets all over Pakistan in the name of awareness.

September 24, Karachi The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride is a global organisation that raises awareness and support research into men’s health on behalf of prostate cancer. The international event takes place every year in hopes to spread the message of awareness and the importance of men’

French man gains consciousness after 15 years in vegetative state

September 26, France In a rare instance, a 35-year-old man in France who had been in a vegetative state for 15 years has shown signs of consciousness for the first time after neurosurgeons administered a nerve stimulation therapy. The findings reported in the journal Current Biology showed tha

Worm digs hole in 17-year-old boy's eye causing permanent vision loss

Mexico,25 September 2017:This news hailing from Mexico might chill your spine. A 17-year-old boy went blind because of the most shocking thing possible. A worm went inside his eyes and caused him to lose his sight. This parasite, a flatworm, dug a hole in his eye and entered it because of which the

Evidence suggests Rohingya women were raped

September 25, Bangladesh Doctors treating some of the 430,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh in recent weeks have seen dozens of women with injuries consistent with violent sexual attacks, UN clinicians and other health workers said. The accounts, backed in some cases by medical

Angela Merkel bids for fourth term as Germans head to the polls

Chancellor Angela Merkel was widely expected to win a fourth term in office as Germans went to the polls on Sunday in an election that is also likely to see the farthest right-wing party in 60 years, the anti-migrant Alternative for Germany, win seats in parliament. Merkel campaigned on her record a

Bangladesh puts mobile phone ban on Rohingyas

Dhaka: Citing security reasons, Bangladesh put a ban on telecommunication companies from selling mobile phone connections to Rohingya refugees, officials said. “For the time being, they (Rohingya) can’t buy any SIM cards,” Enayet Hossain, a senior officer at the telecoms ministry said on Sunday.

Hindus in Bangladesh cutting Durga Puja expense to fund aid for Rohingyas

Bangladesh, 22 September: In a humanitarian gesture, Hindus in Bangladesh on Friday decided to cut the expenses of the upcoming Durga Puja to set up a fund to provide relief for the Rohingya refugees who poured into the country following the ethnic violence in Myanmar. More than 420,000 Rohingyas,

Donald Trump's travel ban expires Sunday; new ban may vary by country

WASHINGTON: The next version of President Donald Trump's travel ban could include new, more tailored restrictions on travelers from additional countries. The Department of Homeland Security has recommended the president impose the new, targeted restrictions on foreign nationals from countries it

Trump and Kim are like ‘children in a kindergarten’: Russia

Moscow :Appealing for an end to the escalating rhetoric between Washington and Pyongyang, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has likened the war of words between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to a kindergarten fight between children. “We have to calm down the

Rohingya crisis: Fresh fire, bomb blast reported at Myanmar’s Rakhine state

Sittwe: Twenty homes caught fire and a bomb was detonated near a mosque in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, the government said on Friday, the latest unrest in a region that has seen hundreds of thousands of Rohinyga Muslims flee in under a month. The violence comes days after Myanmar‘s civilian leader A

North Korea: “Mental gangster Trump is playing with fire”

Pyongyang: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said on Friday that Trump is unfit to hold the prerogative of supreme command of a country, describing the president as a ‘rogue’ and a ‘gangster fond of playing with fire’. Calling US President Donald Trump “mentally deranged”, Kim said, “Trump will pay

Buddhist protesters block aid shipment to Rohingya

Cox Bazar: Buddhist protesters on Wednesday tried to block an aid shipment for the stranded Muslims in Rakhine State. The Police in Myanmar clashed with the mob who threw petrol bombs on the shipment. The police fired in the air to disperse the protesters. The 300-strong mob in Rakhine’s capital

Many buildings are damaged after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake shook central Mexico. Much of downtown Mexico City evacuated

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Aus school’s turban ban on Sikh boy wrong: tribunal

Melbourne :A Sikh family in Australia today won a legal battle against a Christian school which refused to enrol their five-year-old son because of his turban. Sidhak Singh Arora was due to start prepratory at Melton Christian College (MCC) in Melbourne’s north-west, this year. But his patka (

This 90-yr-old North Korean spy, jailed for 3 decades, has one last wish

Gwangju, (South Korea): Condemned to death twice for spying, Seo Ok-Ryol spent three decades in prison, most of it in solitary confinement. Now aged 90, the only thing he wants to do before he dies is go home — to North Korea. Born in the South, where he still has relatives, then a soldier and sp

Six immigrants sue Trump for his decision to end DACA

Washington: Six young undocumented migrants filed suit in San Francisco federal court against President Donald Trump for committing an “unprecedented violation” of their rights by abruptly ending the so-called DACA immigration program. In the lawsuit on Monday, the undocumented migrants, known as

Rohingya Muslims flee to Bangladesh, recount horrors; allege civilians collaborating with Myanmar Army

Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: Rohingya Muslims fleeing a Myanmar military offensive arrived in Bangladesh on Monday with fresh accounts of violence and arson as a rights group called for sanctions and an arms embargo to stop what the United Nations has branded ethnic cleansing. The latest wave of viol

Female cyclists breaking norms as they take to the streets in Khartoum

Friday, 15 September 2017: Two thousand women in the Sudanese capital Khartoum have taken to the streets riding bicycles, breaking the norms and customs of the conservative society they are part of and promoting eco-friendly healthy living. Launched In February of this year, the initiat