World Media
Kentucky teachers rally at Capitol over state budget
Fallin signed a bill that would provide a pay raise for teachers. "Teachers are working several jobs". Thousands of Kentucky teachers are marching from the Kentucky Education Association office to the steps of the state Capitol to protest last-minute changes to their pension system as lawmakers meet to consider a new state budget. [Full Article...]
Bharat bandh: Rajasthan hit by violent protests in Ajmer, Jaipur
In Delhi , hundreds marched protesting the Supreme Court's order on SC/ST Act . In three of those four places the local administrations imposed a curfew and/or Section 144, which prohibits an assembly or more than four people. However, the Supreme Court last week issued some guidelines under which public servants and private individuals could be exempted from immediate arrest. [Full Article...]
Trump, Japan's Abe to meet later this month
He also said they are likely to discuss free trade, as this is an issue of mutual interest. It added that an unidentified U.S. government official indicated that the dynamics of the Japan-U.S. Japan says 17 people were abducted. There were an estimated 17 Japanese nationals who were reportedly snatched by North Korea in the 1970s and 80s. [Full Article...]
First Alert Weather: Drier Air and Unseasonably Warm
If you're planning on heading out somewhere for the bank holiday Monday, you better wrap up because heavy rain and strong easterly winds will become widespread this evening and will continue into Monday morning. Temperatures forecast to rise once again few degrees on Wednesday , bringing back spring conditions across many parts of the country with northeasterly moderate to brisk winds, blowing du... [Full Article...]
Chinese Space Station Tiangong-1 Crashes Over South Pacific Ocean
The eight-tonne Tiangong-1 was mostly burnt up when it entered the Earth's atmosphere in the central region of the South Pacific at around 8:15 am Beijing time, China's Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) said . When it was launched, the original plan was after the duration Chinese authority will guide the space station in a controlled way, like the Mir Space station . [Full Article...]
UK Labour leader criticised for anti-Semitism in party
If Labour were elected to govern, Abbott would serve in Corbyn's cabinet as Home Secretary, a position which would put her in charge of hate crime, including anti-Semitism . "We're a party for everyone". "And if Labour is seen as anti-Semitic, then that is going to be at risk". The Labour leader himself deleted his own personal Facebook account over the weekend amid pressure to distance himself... [Full Article...]
Egypt's president scoops election win with 97 percent of the vote
According to the report, more people spoiled their ballots by writing in Salah's name than voted for Sisi's only challenger, Moussa Mostafa Moussa, who was widely dismissed as a dummy candidate. Some voters said they were offered incentives to cast their ballots including money and food, local and global media reported , but did not say who had made the offers. [Full Article...]
Michigan To Face Villanova In Tournament Championship Game
Defense has been another story as Villanova has limited it's opponents to 40 percent or less five times in it's current 10 game winning streak. They don't need to stay this hot, or even close to it, to beat MI and win the national title Monday night. [Full Article...]
'Affluenza teen' Ethan Couch prepares to leave jail Monday
A Texas judge ruled Couch, who used an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck will be moved to adult court, meaning the teen could face jail time for the 2013 wreck that killed four people. Minister Tim Williams" best friend Brian Jennings was one of four killed by Ethan Couch; Williams explains on "The Story' what happened when he became a visiting chaplain at Couch's jail. [Full Article...]
Dozens killed in suspected Boko Haram attack
The military said the incident occurred late on Sunday and included gun battles between government troops and the militants as they tried to enter Maiduguri , a city in northeast Nigeria which is the epicentre of a nine-year conflict with Boko Harm that has caused the deaths of more than 20,000 people. [Full Article...]
Assad's media says main remaining rebel faction leaving Eastern Ghouta
In the past few weeks, these deals have seen more than 46,000 people - fighters and civilians - board buses with scant belongings to be driven to the northwestern province of Idlib, which is largely outside government control. The first fighters from the Army of Islam left the town of Douma around midday as part of an evacuation deal that will hand the town to the Syrian government, reported the s... [Full Article...]
Malala flies back after wrapping up Pakistan visit
Touching scenes were witnessed when the now-20-year-old university student left her hotel and thanked Pakistani officials for giving her a helicopter to see her home in the northwest town of Mingora in the Swat Valley. Severely wounded, she was airlifted from one military hospital in Pakistan to another and later flown to the Great Britain for treatment. The youngest ever victor of the Nobel P... [Full Article...]
Israeli defense minister rules out inquiry into Gaza killings
In addition, he said, Israel is holding the bodies of 24 other Palestinians who were killed in Operation Protective Edge (the 2014 Gaza War) and in the demolition of a Hamas attack tunnel into Israel last October. But Israeli defence minister Avigdor Lieberman said Israel would not co-operate with a United Nations inquiry if there were one. Israel's military says it only fired at those w... [Full Article...]
South African activist Winne Mandela dies at age 81
Nelson Mandela died in 2013. Ms Madikizela-Mandela divorced her husband in 1996, two years into his presidency, however she continued to visit it him daily during his term in office. In 2003, she was sentenced to four years in prison on dozens of counts of theft and bank fraud. "Mrs Madikizela-Mandela was one of the greatest icons of the struggle against apartheid". [Full Article...]
'ridiculous' laws make Border Patrol more dangerous
13 militants killed in Kashmir encounters
Past year was the deadliest of the current decade in the disputed Kashmir region, with more than 200 militants killed in a counter-insurgency offensive dubbed "Operation All Out". Three Army personnel and as many civilians lost their lives in Kachdooru area, whereas another civilian, who was the house owner at Draggad where militants were hiding, was killed along with the terrorists. [Full Article...]
Costa Rica Election Hands Presidency to Governing Party Stalwart
Alvarado, of the governing Citizens Action Party, beat opponent Fabricio Alvarado, an evangelical pastor who heads the National Restoration Party, with over 60 per cent vote in his favour. He started out professionally as a journalist but left that when he realized that "one has to be involved to change things". The presidential election in Costa Rica had become consumed by social issues in rece... [Full Article...]
Cambridge Analytica's Indian links exposed
In 2016, the social network introduced a tool that shows users advertising categories - political and otherwise - they might fall into based on pages they've liked and other information they have provided. "I'm an extrovert for sure". Cambridge Analytica initially said in response to the accusation it had violated Facebook's data policies that it had contracted with Global Science Research "to u... [Full Article...]
Protesters rally for justice for Stephon Clark
Protesters had gathered around 8:30 p.m. More than 50 people attended a vigil for Stephon Clark in South Sacramento on Saturday night. One of the patrol cars sounded the siren four times. Clark's fiancee, Salena Manni, stood on stage with his two young sons, grandmother and uncle for the gathering Saturday organized by Sacramento native and former National Basketball Association player Ma... [Full Article...]
China space lab may fall to Earth on Monday: European Space Agency
The nonprofit "Aerospace Corporation" says it may happen over the Pacific ocean . Those on the ground there may possibly be treated to a "splendid" light show, as China's space agency put it , as if a large meteor is breaking up in the upper atmosphere. [Full Article...]