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Saturday, June 1, 2019 At around 12:20 p.m. local time on Wednesday (1620 UTC) in the United States capital city Washington DC, Arnav Gupta, 33-year-old of Bethesda, Maryland, set himself on fire in a publicly accessible area called the Ellipse, between the south lawn of the White House and the Washington Monument. Gupta was transported […]

Thursday, November 12, 2009 Researchers have found a crucial genetic difference between humans and chimps that could help explain our language and speech abilities. The difference lies in a gene called FOXP2 which encodes for a protein of the same name. This acts as a transcription factor, controlling the activity of other genes. A rendering […]

Tuesday, December 10, 2013 General Motors’ World Headquarters, the Renaissance Center, in Detroit, Michigan. The United States’s largest car manufacturer General Motors today named Mary Barra as its new chief executive. Barra, 51, will be the first woman to lead a firm in the American auto industry. She has been with General Motors for 33 […]

Saturday, January 28, 2006File:TragediaKatowice06.jpg Rescue workers at the scene(Image missing from Commons: image; log) The roof of a trade hall in Metropolian Katowice (district Chorzów and Katowice), Poland has collapsed. Officials said there are at least 67 fatalities and at least 160 people were injured. More than 125 people are still believed to be trapped […]

Friday, May 28, 2010 A man accused of being a serial killer has appeared in Bradford magistrates court in West Yorkshire today charged with three counts of murder. 40-year-old Stephen Griffiths is accused of killing Suzanne Blamires, 36, Susan Rushworth, 43, and Shelley Armitage, 31, all prostitutes. Griffiths, a former van driver with a degree […]

Wednesday, June 23, 2021 Protest in Minsk against Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko on September 20, 2020 after the controversial August election. Image: User:Palsciuk. On Monday, Canada, the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom and the United States imposed new sanctions on senior officials and entities in Belarus over the May 23 diversion of a Ryanair […]

Monday, February 12, 2007 Pixar’s Cars was the big winner of the night, taking home “Best Animated Feature”. Seen here is Pixar chief and the film’s director John Lasseter with his wife. Despite numerous nomination, Monster House didn’t win any Annies for Columbia Pictures’s mantel. Pictured are young actors Spencer Locke, Sam Lerner, and Mitchel […]

Friday, October 20, 2017 On Wednesday, at least seven people were killed and 22 were injured in [[Quetta, Balochistan province, Pakistan, after a car rammed into a truck carrying policemen. Abdur Razzaq Cheema, a police chief, said five police officials died in the incident and eight were critically injured. Speaking to Al Jazeera, police official […]

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 The Federal Reserve took over American International Group (AIG) on Tuesday in an US$85 billion loan, in exchange for a 79.9% stake in the company. A press release issued Tuesday stated that “the Board determined that, in current circumstances, a disorderly failure of AIG could add to already significant levels of […]

Sunday, July 5, 2009 The United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office is to launch an investigation into the collapse of car manufacturer MG Rover. The move follows the conclusion of a four-year enquiry started immediately after the firm became insolvent. The group of four who owned MG Rover — John Towers, Nick Stephenson, Peter Beale and […]