A ship carrying hundreds of migrants has been abandoned by its crew in rough seas in the Mediterranean off Italy’s south coast in the second such incident in three days, the Italian coastguard said on Friday.
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Girl survives US plane crash that kills four others
Washington — A seven-year-old girl walked free from the wreckage of a private plane that crashed in a wooded area of Kentucky on Friday killing four others on board, US police said.
Boko Haram seizes 40 boys, men in northern Nigeria
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have kidnapped 40 boys and young men in a remote village in northeast Nigerian Borno state on New Year’s Eve, residents who fled the isolated settlement said on Saturday.
Two large objects found in AirAsia wreckage hunt
Indonesian officials were hopeful on Saturday that they were honing in on the wreckage of AirAsia Flight 8501 after sonar equipment detected two large objects on the ocean floor, nearly a week after the plane went down in stormy weather.
Twitter releases new feature that allows users to catch up on missed tweets
Twitter has released a new feature that allows users to catch up on missed Tweets.
Microsoft, Yahoo's search services suffer brief outage
Tech giant Microsoft's search engine Bing.com and other sites, including live.com, suffered a brief disconnection of about 20 minutes on Friday, as per reports revealed on Twitter and other website-monitoring services.
This is how plant biomass can be converted into biofuels more efficiently
A new study has recently revealed that plant genetic advance could lead to more efficient conversion of plant biomass to biofuels.
Indonesia freezes AirAsia's permission to fly on doomed QZ8501 route
In a major development to the reports of the unfortunate crashing of AirAsia flight, it is revealed that the permission has been denied to the ill-fated airline to fly on the doomed airliner's route.
Sony cyber attack: US imposes new sanctions on North Korea
Reacting to the cyber attack against US company Sony Pictures Entertainment, the United States imposed fresh sanctions on North Korea, holding that they believed the Asian country was behind it.
Chinese biologists discover molecule behind bamboo flowering cycle
Beijing: A team of Chinese biologists has discovered the molecule responsible for the coordination of the different genes involved in the mass flowering cycles of bamboo, a key food for panda bears, the South China Morning Post reported Friday.
Top fitness apps not satisfying: Study
WASHINGTON: A good number of top fitness apps scored less in consumer satisfaction, a report shows.
New antibiotic could curb hearing loss
New York: A new version of a common antibiotic could eliminate the side effects associated with the drug - risk of hearing loss and kidney damage, a new research has found.
Nasa looks for high-tech airships
Nasa has called for designs of an airship that can fly at altitudes higher than the currrent 65,000-foot limit for weather balloons and for longer than the existing ones.
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