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Friday, 10 March 2017   SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook Inc founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are expecting a second child, a daughter, the billionaire internet mogul said yesterday. The couple was not sure they would be able to have another child after a difficult pregnancy with their first …

Friday, 10 March 2017   BANGKOK: About 30 elephants took part in the opening of Thailand’s annual elephant polo tournament in Bangkok on Thursday. The King’s Cup Elephant Polo Tournament, now in its 15th year, is a charity event to raise money to help wild and domesticated elephants. It brings …

Saturday, 11 March 2017   Mumbai – Indian doctors said Thursday that an Egyptian who is believed to be the world’s heaviest woman had successfully undergone weight-loss surgery after losing over 100 kilograms. Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, who previously weighed around 500 kilos, had not left her house in …

Saturday, 11 March 2017   Sydney: An Australian lake has turned a vivid pink thanks to extreme salt levels further exacerbated by hot weather in a startling natural phenomena that resembles a toxic spill. Parks Victoria chief conservation scientist Mark Norman said the spectacle was the result of green algae …

Wednesday, 8 March 2017   Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, one of Harvard’s most famous dropouts, will be returning to Cambridge to deliver this year’s commencement speech, 12 years after he dropped out of the university. Harvard announced that Zuckerberg will address graduates at the 336th commencement ceremony on 25 …

Wednesday, 8 March 2017   It has nothing to do with them being so very, very cute – instead, its meant to make pandas look tough, according to a new study. Pandas are one of the few mammals that don’t have colouring that matches their environment. They’re a study in …

Wednesday, 8 March 2017   China is making a new-generation manned spaceship which rivals that of world-leading space powers, a space mission expert said. “Among the next generation of manned spaceships some foreign countries are developing, only the Orion spacecraft of the US can carry out a moon landing mission,” …

Wednesday, 8 March 2017   A group of scientists have devised a plan to make Mars a little more hospitable to human life. A computer modeling experiment suggests that we can use a spacecraft to create a magnetic field around Mars, shielding it from the solar wind that’s stripping its …

Wednesday, 8 March 2017 A quarter of all global deaths of children under 5 years old are due to unhealthy or polluted environments including dirty water and air, second-hand smoke and a lack or adequate hygiene, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. Such unsanitary and polluted environments can …

Wednesday, 8 March 2017 US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will visit Beijing on 18 March to discuss China-US relations and multilateral issues, the State Department announced on Tuesday. In his maiden trip to Asia since taking the job as US President Donald Trump’s top diplomat about a month ago, …