24-03-2022 LONDON: A woman’s hand in the United Kingdom ended up looking like a ‘shark’s head’ after her surgery battling sepsis, media reported. Sepsis is a grave condition where the body begins to harm its own tissues. 34-year-old Sadie Kemp shared the video of her hand on her TikTok profile. …

23-03-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban ordered girls’ secondary schools in Afghanistan to shut Wednesday just hours after they reopened, an official confirmed, sparking confusion and heartbreak over the policy reversal by the group. The Taliban will allow girls around Afghanistan to return to class …

23-03-2022 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Five more people have been arrested over a series of arson attacks that caused more than $10 million in damage to businesses across Melbourne. The arrests come after two men were arrested on March 7 and after police made repeated calls for the public to help …

23-03-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies BENGALURU/ NEW DELHI: The body of Indian student Naveen Shekarappa Gyanagoudar was brought back to India this morning, three weeks after he was killed during shelling in Ukraine. Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai paid tribute and placed a wreath on the body at Bengaluru airport, …

23-03-2022 WUZHOU/ BEIJING: Rescuers in China scoured heavily forested slopes on Tuesday with hopes fading of finding any survivors from the 132 people aboard a China Eastern Airlines jet that crashed a day earlier in the mountains of southern Guangxi. Parts of the Boeing 737-800 were strewn across mountain slopes …

23-03-2022 LONDON: A British woman, Kelly Healey, 33, became England’s youngest grandmother at the age of 30, when her 14-year-old daughter gave birth to a baby boy, Daily Mail reported. As per the publication, Healey’s daughter, Skye Salter became a mother in 2018. However, the matter came to light just …

22-03-2022 NEW DELHI: When Ishrat Jahan walked out of a prison in the Indian capital last week, she was hugged by her sister and they burst into tears as relatives gathered around to welcome her back home after more than two years of imprisonment. “I missed my family a lot. …

22-03-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ RIYADH/ ISLAMABAD: The Biden administration has transferred a significant number of Patriot antimissile interceptors to Saudi Arabia to use against Shia Muslims particularly those Shia rebel groups of Iran, Pakistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq those may attack on …

22-03-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD: General Kenneth McKenzie, the commander of the US Central Command, talking to reporters on Friday raised concerns regarding Daesh’s presence and activity in Afghanistan. He said Daesh (ISIS/ ISIL) has a few thousand fighters in Afghanistan, and they have carried out some …

22-03-2022 PARIS/ MOSCOW: The European Space Agency has confirmed that it’s indefinitely suspending its ExoMars rover mission with partner Roscosmos, Russia’s state space corporation. The ESA had previously said that the mission was “very unlikely” because of Russia’s war in Ukraine. The decision to suspend cooperation with Roscosmos was taken …