Bhai Amrik Singh, chairman of UK's Sikh Federation, said gaffe 'demonstrates remarkable level of ignorance from someone in his position.' WT24 Desk London: The top civil servant in Britain’s Foreign Office has apologized for calling one of India’s holiest Sikh ...
Read More »‘Dead’ baby dies at last
WT24 Desk The new born baby, who was found alive during bathing prior its burial in the city’s Azimpur Graveyard on Monday after declared dead at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), died at Shishu Hospital here early Tuesday, UNB reports. ...
Read More »Elderly dog helps save girl lost in Australian bush
WT24 Desk Australian police have praised a dog for remaining with a three-year-old girl as she spent a night lost in bushland, BBC reports. The girl, Aurora, had been the subject of a large search after she wandered away from ...
Read More »Naked gunman kills four in Nashville Waffle House
WT24 Desk A nude gunman has killed four people at a Waffle House in Nashville in the US state of Tennessee, police say, BBC reports. The man burst into the restaurant at 03:25 (08:25 GMT) in the suburb of Antioch ...
Read More »Korean Air ‘nut rage’ sisters step down
WT24 Desk The CEO of Korean Air says his two daughters are resigning after separate incidents that led to allegations of abuse of power inside the company, BBC reports. Police are investigating the youngest daughter, Cho Hyun-min, after she allegedly ...
Read More »Large alligator captured next to Arkansas highway
WT24 Desk An Arkansas man captured video of a large alligator being lassoed and removed from next to a busy stretch of highway, UPI reports. Witness Kenneth Sanders recorded video Wednesday as wildlife trappers carefully wrangled the 12-foot alligator spotted ...
Read More »University’s robot builds Ikea chair in about 20 minutes
WT24 Desk Scientists at a university in Singapore showed off the capabilities of their robots by having one of the machines assemble an Ikea chair, UPI reports. The Nanyang Technological University researchers released a video showing the robot using two ...
Read More »Telangana’s 700-year-old banyan tree gets saline drip for survival
The tree — touted by the state forest authorities as the second largest banyan tree in the world — is located on the outskirts of Mahbubnagar and is spread over three acres. WT24 Desk The Telangana forest department is administering ...
Read More »Man believed to be the world’s oldest dies in Chile aged 121
Celino Villanueva Jaramillo, thought to have been born in 1896, died in hospital after puncturing his lung falling out of bed WT24 Desk A Chilean man believed to be the world’s oldest person has died in hospital at the age ...
Read More »Flood of tumbleweeds submerge California town
WT24 Desk Heavy winds have caused a Southern California town to become deluged with tumbleweeds,UPI reports. In Victorville, Calif., tumbleweeds accumulated so much, entire driveways and front sides of homes were covered in the dry, detached diaspores. “Normally you get ...
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