It is the greatest Easter egg hunt in the world — the search for a £20 million egg. In 1952, a man walked into the Wartski antique shop just off Bond Street and spent £1,250 on a Fabergé egg. He paid in cash and was listed as “A Stranger”. The Tsar Imperial egg, the Nécessaire Egg, has never been seen again,… Read more →
First it was George W. Bush — and now it’s deja shoe for Hillary Clinton. Clinton was forced to duck Thursday when a female protester threw a shoe at her as she spoke at a Las Vegas event. Clinton had just begun a speech about recycling when the shoe whizzed by her right ear. The startled former secretary of state… Read more →
Manama, April 10 (BNA)– Liaoning Ballet of China took the stage today at Bahrain National Theatre with an enthralling show that was presented as part of the Spring of Culture and within the framework of the Chinese cultural week to celebrate the silver jubilee of the establishment of Bahrain-China diplomatic relations. The gifted group entertained the viewers with well-selected and… Read more →
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Friday he was “confident” that the latest signals picked up by search vessels were from the black box on board missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Speaking to reporters after arriving in Shanghai on an official visit, Mr. Abbott said the search area had been narrowed down, indicating that vessels were close to a… Read more →
WASHINGTON: Aimed at attracting the world’s best and brightest, the US will soon come out with a series of policy initiatives and changes in the existing rules including allowing the spouses of H-1B visas to work in America. In a statement, the White House said that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will soon publish several proposed rules that will… Read more →
Foreign policy has rarely mattered in Indian elections, yet one of the biggest challenges the new government in New Delhi will face is in confronting an international system that has felt systematically let down by India over the last few years. The world is hoping — as are India’s impatient and angry young voters — for a quick recovery of… Read more →
A senior Malaysian official has lit a candle of hope for families of passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines jet MH370 by telling a news conference that: ‘Miracles do happen.’ Malaysian minister Hishammudin Hussein said that despite grim satellite information on the chance of survivors, “Miracles do happen. We are still hoping against hope that we can find survivors.” Meanwhile,… Read more →
New Delhi: The Election Commission of India has said that it is not possible to allow NRIs to cast postal votes for the coming Lok Sabha polls. If the NRIs are to be given an opportunity to cast votes externally in their place of residence, then the Representation of People’s Act need to be amended. The EC said this… Read more →
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella joining the growing list of India-born chiefs at the helm of American companies has caused a “bit of a stir” in China, according to a media report. The Wall Street Journal report titled ‘Why China Doesn’t Export World-Class CEOs’ also said Indians’ good command over the English language and their willingness to move gives them an… Read more →
A Chinese patrol ship searching the crashed Malaysian airliner on Saturday picked up a pulse signal from its black box detector in the southern Indian Ocean, China’s official media reported, in a possible breakthrough in the nearly month-long multinational hunt for the jet. Haixun 01, searching for the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, detected a pulse signal with a frequency of… Read more →
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