WASHINGTON: A drought in Texas dried up a river flowing through Dinosaur Valley State Park, exposing tracks from giant reptiles that lived some 113 million years ago, an official said Tuesday. Photos posted on Facebook show three-toed footprints leading down a dry tree-lined riverbed in the southern US state. It is “one of the longest […]
MOSCOW: Russia’s defence ministry said on Thursday that it killed Ukrainian troops in a railway station attack in central Ukraine that Kyiv said left 25 people, including children, dead. “As a result of a direct hit by an Iskander missile on a military train at the Chaplyne railway station, more than 200 servicemen of the […]
NEW DELHI: The Goa Police on Thursday registered a murder case against the two associates of BJP leader Sonali Phogat, who died in Goa earlier this week. The two people booked by Anjuna Police had accompanied Phogat to Goa. Earlier today, Phogat’s autopsy was conducted at a state-run hospital after her family members gave consent […]
There can be several other medical reasons why your child might be experiencing frequent pain in the stomach. Surgical problems like appendicitis, bowel obstruction or intussusception (telescoping of part of the gut) can lead to immense pain in the stomach. A muscle strain near the belly region can also cause the pain confusing the child […]
JERUSALEM: Israel on Monday launched a scheme allowing Palestinians from the occupied West Bank to fly abroad from an airport in the Negev desert. Forty Palestinians were aboard the first flight from Ramon airport near the southern Israeli resort city of Eilat, a spokeswoman for the Israel Airports Authority told AFP. The flight operated by […]
SINGAPORE: A 35-year-old Indian national has died in a forklift accident at an under-construction public housing project in Singapore, according to a media report. The incident happened on Thursday when the worker was standing on the rear counterweight of a forklift at the worksite while tying an electrical cable onto the side of an overhead […]
GENEVA: The outgoing UN human rights chief suggested Thursday that her office may not make good on her promise to release its long-awaited report on China’s Xinjiang region by the end of her term next week. Speaking to reporters, Michelle Bachelet said her office is “trying” to meet the deadline that she herself set in […]
TOKYO: Water may have been brought to Earth by asteroids from the outer edges of the solar system, scientists said after analysing rare samples collected on a six-year Japanese space mission. In a quest to shed light on the origins of life and the formation of the universe, researchers are scrutinising material brought back to […]
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is all set to return to Sri Lanka in the first week of September, days after fleeing to Thailand. Rajapaksa is likely to return either on September 2 or 3, Daily Mirror reported citing a source. Rajapaksa fled Sri Lanka in the early hours of July 13 after […]
