Oslo: One of the world’s biggest aluminium producers, Norway’s Norsk Hydro, said Tuesday it had been hit by a cyber-attack of unknown origin. “Hydro became victim of an extensive cyberattack in the early hours of Tuesday, impacting operations in several of the company’s business areas,” the energy group said in
TRAPANI: Gambian Cherno Jallow, Senegalese Cheikhaya Dieng, and Ivorian Fofana Lamine, are finishing 44-month jail sentences in Italy after people smugglers forced them to navigate boats across the Mediterranean. Shortly before they were due to be released, the three men told AFP about their ordeals from their prison in Trapani,
BEIRUT: Human Rights Watch urged Egyptian authorities on Tuesday to establish the whereabouts of a missing opposition activist following their denials he was in their custody. Former lawmaker Mostafa al-Naggar disappeared in September and there has been no word on his whereabouts since. He was sentenced to three years in
INDIAN WELLS (United States): Canadian sensation Bianca Andreescu became the first wild card to win the WTA title at Indian Wells on Sunday with a gritty 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 victory over Wimbledon champion Angelique Kerber. Andreescu, 18, shook off fatigue to topple the eighth-ranked German, who hasn’t won a title
Umer Farooq’s grandfather and father made bagpipes.Now he is the third generation to take up the tradition in Pakistan, which is thousands of kilometres from Scotland yet sells thousands of bagpipes each year. The fresh smell of wood floats through the Mid East factory in Sialkot, on the eastern side
One in five fish sold in America may be mislabelled, according to a report Thursday by an NGO that tested samples from several hundred markets and restaurants and alleged fraud runs through the entire fisheries supply chain. The NGO Oceana said it analysed the DNA of 449 fish purchased from
Mahout Y Hoi Bya sits atop his elephant, whacking him with a large stick to urge him toward the finish line at the Buon Don race in Vietnam’s central highlands. Locals say the race is a celebration of the much-revered animals — traditionally thought of as family members in this
Like humans, chimpanzees are culturally diverse but those differences are being eroded by human incursion, international researchers say in a groundbreaking study published Thursday. The striking results, published in the American journal “Science,” show that the behavioural diversity of chimpanzees was reduced by an average 88 percent in areas with
A new breeding ground for endangered hammerhead sharks has been found in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador’s government said. This natural refuge off the island of Santa Cruz is home to about 20 of the sharks, the environment ministry said. It is the second such refuge detected in the archipelago. The
Researchers in Australia have determined that the dingo is not a dog but a native species of its own — a classification they say requires a conservation rethink of the animal. Twenty researchers from a number of Australian Universities found the dingo has many characteristics that differentiate it from domestic