Pak PM to undergo open heart surgery
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is currently in london for medical check-up, will undergo open-heart surgery on May 31, officials said.
lanka aborts motion to congratulate Jaya
Colombo: Sri lanka’s Tamil-controlled Northern Provincial Council’s attempt to adopt a motion to congratulate J Jayalalithaa for becoming the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister has been aborted.
Zuckerberg to call ISS astronauts via fb live
Washington: Taking connectivity to a new high, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will speak with three astronauts currently living and working aboard the International Space Station on June 1, NASA said.
Soon, ‘print’ customised tablets!
Singapore: Imagine if you could combine the myriad of pills you need to take for your ailment in just one tablet and release the drug in a timely manner or if doctors could easily make tablets on the spot that are tailored to each patient’s needs.
Crisis talks over Brazil ‘gangrape’
Brasilia: Brazil’s interim President Michel Temer has called an emergency meeting of state security ministers over the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl in Rio de Janeiro, which has triggered widespread condemnation.
N Korean leader’s aunt runs dry-cleaner in US
Washington: The aunt of North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-Un lives anonymously in the United States, where she runs a dry-cleaning business after having defected in 1998, a media report has said.
104 ISIS killed in air, land strikes: Turkey
Ankara: Turkey’s State-run news agency says US-led coalition
airstrikes and Turkish artillery fire against the ISIS in Syria have killed 104 militants. Anadolu Agency says on Saturday said the strikes came late Friday, hours after rockets fired from Syria hit a southern Turkish town and wounded five people.