LONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May scrambled to put together a new Brexit strategy after MPs rejected her EU divorce deal, and insisted she could not rule out a potentially damaging “no-deal” split. The world’s fifth-largest economy is in political turmoil and grasping for solutions that could smooth its planned
TOKYO: A rocket carrying a satellite on a mission to deliver the world’s first artificial meteor shower blasted into space yesterday, Japanese scientists said. A start-up based in Tokyo developed the micro-satellite for the celestial show over Hiroshima early next year as the initial experiment for what it calls a
LOS ANGELES: An enormous great white shark – believed to be one of the biggest on record – has been spotted off the coast of Hawaii by divers who took a swim with the predator. The six-meter female shark – bearing similar markings as “Deep Blue,” the largest great white
NEW DELHI: A disgraced religious sect leader was sentenced to life imprisonment Thursday for murdering a journalist who exposed rampant sexual abuses by the powerful guru. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who headed the Dera Sacha Sauda sect with millions of followers worldwide, was convicted by the court last week on
SYDNEY: Australia police on Friday arrested a man in relation to the murder of Israeli student Aiia Maasarwe, some two days after her body was found in Melbourne. The 21-year-old was killed on the way home from a comedy show in Melbourne just after midnight on Wednesday, with her body
SEOUL: A Seoul court yesterday dismissed a Japanese machinery maker’s appeal against an order that it pay 17 South Korean women 100 million won ($89,000) each for forced wartime labour, the latest in a series of rulings raising tensions between the neighbours. South Korea and its former colonial power Japan
