An Australian Nobel Prize-winning scientist is developing a drug to counter allergies and asthma, a statement said on Friday. Still in its initial stage, the the drug can be taken as tablets, capsules, liquids or powder, Xinhua news reported. Barry Marshall, a microbiology professor from the University of Western Australia (UWA), who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology in 2005 […]
» Read moreA suicide truck bomb killed about 100 people, most of them Iranian Shia pilgrims, at a petrol station in the city of Hilla 100 km south of Baghdad on Thursday, police and medical sources said. Islamic State, which considers all Shias to be apostates, claimed responsibility the attack in an online statement.
» Read moreNepal Rastra Bank on Thursday banned the use of India’s new currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 2,000 denomination, terming them “unauthorised and illegal”. These two currency notes were issued by the Reserve Bank of India recently after old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denomination notes were withdrawn. Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has called the new currency notes “unauthorised […]
» Read moreAt least 40 people were killed today when a platform under construction at a power plant collapsed in east China’s Jiangxi province, the latest industrial disaster to hit the world’s second largest economy. The accident occurred at about 7:00 am when a cooling tower platform plunged to the ground, trapping an unknown number of people beneath it, state—run Xinhua news […]
» Read moreAt least 27 people have been killed and 35 wounded after a suicide attack at Shia mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan police have said. An attacker entered the Baqir ul Olum mosque during a ceremony, the interior ministry said in a statement. There was no immediately claim of responsibility.
» Read moreDonald Trump has met Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the US President-elect’s first meeting with a foreign leader after winning the presidential elections last week. “I am convinced Trump is a leader in whom I can have great confidence,” Mr. Abe said after the meeting on Thursday that lasted for about 90 minutes at the Trump Towers in New York. […]
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